{"id":33,"date":"2006-10-10T14:10:14","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T18:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/10\/10\/no-penance-for-dennis\/"},"modified":"2006-10-10T14:32:29","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T18:32:29","slug":"no-penance-for-dennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/10\/10\/no-penance-for-dennis\/","title":{"rendered":"No Penance For Dennis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since blaming Democrats and the media didn&#8217;t stick, Denny Hastert is now trying to \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/10\/10\/hastert-shifts-blame\/\">shift blame to his staff.<\/a> (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2006_10_08_atrios_archive.html#116049738112469496\">Atrios<\/a>) And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>No Penance For Dennis?<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Hastert is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/10\/AR2006101000453.html\">blaming his staff,<\/a><br \/>\nBut those in the know have to laugh.<br \/>\nMoms and dads are appalled<br \/>\nBy his Foley bad call.<br \/>\nDoes he think U.S. voters are daft?<br \/>\n[tags]Denny Hastert, Foley Scandal, House Speaker Hastert, Family Values, Blame Game[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since blaming Democrats and the media didn&#8217;t stick, Denny Hastert is now trying to \u00a0shift blame to his staff. (Via Atrios) And that brings me to my latest limerick: No Penance For Dennis? By Madeleine Begun Kane Hastert is blaming his staff, But those in the know have to laugh. Moms and dads are appalled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,35,21,20,14,34,6,7,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-dennis-hastert","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-house","category-mark-foley","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}