{"id":2929,"date":"2010-03-25T03:24:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T07:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2010-03-25T03:37:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T07:37:49","slug":"chuck-grassley-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/03\/25\/chuck-grassley-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Grassley Upchucks Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Chuck Grassley, one of healthcare reform&#8217;s most vocal opponents, has outdone himself.  He&#8217;s now trying to take credit for portions of  the Affordable Health Care For America Act, <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/03\/grassley-look-how-great-this-health-care-bill-is.php\">bragging that he authored the good parts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Grassley Upchucks Hypocrisy<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Grassley threw health care a curve<br \/>\nWhen he stalled reform efforts with verve.<br \/>\nHis votes were all &#8220;no.&#8221;<br \/>\nHis performance was po&#8217;.<br \/>\nYet he brags he&#8217;s an author. What nerve!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">********<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of taking credit, check out Don Davis and his <a href=\"http:\/\/satiricalpolitical.com\/2010\/03\/24\/republicans-take-credit-for-home-scare-reform\/\">Rethuglicans Take Credit for &#8216;Home Scare Reform&#8217;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Chuck Grassley, one of healthcare reform&#8217;s most vocal opponents, has outdone himself. He&#8217;s now trying to take credit for portions of the Affordable Health Care For America Act, bragging that he authored the good parts. That brings me to my latest limerick: Chuck Grassley Upchucks Hypocrisy By Madeleine Begun Kane Chuck Grassley threw health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,52,159,11,6,7,3,12],"tags":[1256,830,851,841],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gop-humor","category-health-satire","category-hypocrisy-humor","category-legislation","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-senate","tag-chuck-grassley","tag-health-care-reform","tag-legislation-satire","tag-republican-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}