{"id":2942,"date":"2010-03-26T16:35:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T20:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2010-03-26T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T20:35:07","slug":"mitt-romney-individual-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/03\/26\/mitt-romney-individual-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney: Constitutionally Confused"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit where credit is due: When it comes to self-contradiction, Mitt Romney is both fearless and peerless.<\/p>\n

Once a staunch advocate of individual health insurance mandates — the Massachusetts governor who ardently defended their constitutionality — Romney has flip-flopped.<\/a> Now that they’re required by the Democrats’ Affordable Care Act, they’ve magically turned unconstitutional. <\/p>\n

Of course, constant flip-flops can be hard on the constitution. So it’s no surprise that Mitt Romney was for <\/strong>individual mandates before he was against <\/strong>them.<\/a><\/p>\n

That brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n

Mitt Romney: Constitutionally Confused
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Individual mandates are great,
\nSaid Mitt re Mass. health bill’s debate.
\nNow he swears that they’re awful
\nAnd even unlawful.
\nYour claims, my dear Mitt — get them straight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Credit where credit is due: When it comes to self-contradiction, Mitt Romney is both fearless and peerless. Once a staunch advocate of individual health insurance mandates — the Massachusetts governor who ardently defended their constitutionality — Romney has flip-flopped. Now that they’re required by the Democrats’ Affordable Care Act, they’ve magically turned unconstitutional. Of course, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,20,777,52,159,556,2,168,11,126,6,7,3],"tags":[1258,307,830,1032,373,851,857,1250,1259],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution-humor","category-gop-humor","category-governors-humor","category-health-satire","category-hypocrisy-humor","category-insurance-humor","category-law","category-legal-limericks","category-legislation","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-constitution-verse","tag-health-care-reform","tag-health-insurance","tag-legal-humor","tag-legislation-satire","tag-massachusetts","tag-mitt-romney","tag-republican-flip-flops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","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=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}