{"id":3500,"date":"2010-07-18T23:11:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T03:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2010-09-28T16:33:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T20:33:47","slug":"deficit-hawks-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/07\/18\/deficit-hawks-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP&#8217;s Honesty Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans have a cute little &#8220;deficit hawk&#8221; scam going: They &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_07\/024775.php\">block extended aid to the unemployed<\/a>, while simultaneously pushing for massive tax cuts for the wealthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How do they justify this?  According to Republican leaders like Mike Pence and Jon Kyl, the former has to be offset by spending cuts, but the latter, due to some mysterious mix of magic and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/07\/18\/mike-pence-explains-why-a_n_650374.html\">voodoo<\/a>, doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for a new limerick:<\/p>\n<p>The GOP&#8217;s Honesty Deficit<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Though the GOP deficit hawks<br \/>\nAre famed for &#8220;must pay for it&#8221; squawks,<br \/>\nThey nix plugging the hole<br \/>\nCaused by tax cuts. How droll!<br \/>\nYes, that&#8217;s how hypocrisy talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans have a cute little &#8220;deficit hawk&#8221; scam going: They &#8220;block extended aid to the unemployed, while simultaneously pushing for massive tax cuts for the wealthy.&#8221; How do they justify this? According to Republican leaders like Mike Pence and Jon Kyl, the former has to be offset by spending cuts, but the latter, due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,114,20,159,1362,1193,6,7,3,9,45],"tags":[1359,390,386,1363,2882,841,702,1360,1185,1361],"class_list":["post-3500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-humor","category-fiscal-policy","category-gop-humor","category-hypocrisy-humor","category-mike-pence","category-money-finance-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-tax-budget-humor","tag-deficit-hawks","tag-economy-satire","tag-financial-verse","tag-jon-kyl","tag-mike-pence","tag-republican-hypocrisy","tag-republicans-humor","tag-tax-cuts","tag-unemployment-benefits","tag-voodoo-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500","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=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3775,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions\/3775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}