{"id":4008,"date":"2010-10-28T00:45:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T04:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4008"},"modified":"2010-10-28T00:47:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T04:47:05","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-obama-one-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/10\/28\/mitch-mcconnell-obama-one-term\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Limerick To Republican Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, I think Republican supporters are wrong about everything.  But I have to assume they have a good faith belief that Republican pols want to make things better for the American people. And I&#8217;d like to think some of them would reevaluate their votes if they knew about the GOP&#8217;s <strong>real<\/strong> priority.<\/p>\n<p>What am talking about? In an interview with <em>National Journal<\/em>, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has admitted to a totally different <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_10\/026333.php\">goal<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president,&#8221; McConnell said, adding, &#8220;Our single biggest political goal is to give [the Republican] nominee for president the maximum opportunity to be successful.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s no ambiguity here: Republicans are taking a strong stand for partisan politics over good policy. And that leads me to my latest two-verse limerick:<\/p>\n<p>An Open Limerick To Republican Supporters<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>To those who are suff&#8217;ring frustration<br \/>\nAnd see GOP wins as salvation,<br \/>\nThose pols led by Mitch<br \/>\nDragged us into this ditch<br \/>\nAnd will <strong>not<\/strong> do what&#8217;s good for our nation.<\/p>\n<p>No, they won&#8217;t get us out of this hole,<br \/>\nCuz McConnell has one single goal:<br \/>\nMake the Prez a one-termer,<br \/>\nHe brags &#8212; does not murmur.<br \/>\nSo please think when you go to the poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, I think Republican supporters are wrong about everything. But I have to assume they have a good faith belief that Republican pols want to make things better for the American people. And I&#8217;d like to think some of them would reevaluate their votes if they knew about the GOP&#8217;s real priority. What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185,95,72,21,20,1182,1135,154,6,7,3,9,12,610,17],"tags":[192,194,2763,1179,2889,1446,348,1447,789,1342,1246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008"}],"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=4008"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4027,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions\/4027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}