Unlike many of my fellow progressives, I never thought Obama was a liberal. But now I’m beginning to wonder if he’s even a Democrat. In any event, he certainly isn’t a leader.<\/p>\n
Needless to say, I’m furious about the Bush tax cut extension deal<\/a> Obama made with Republicans, and I’m glad that Speaker Pelosi<\/a> is taking a strong stand against it. <\/p>\n Here’s a pair of limericks about Obama’s abject surrender to the GOP:<\/p>\n A Pair Of Limericks For A Pairless President Dear Obama, you’re being a heel Obama’s demeanor is frayed Unlike many of my fellow progressives, I never thought Obama was a liberal. But now I’m beginning to wonder if he’s even a Democrat. In any event, he certainly isn’t a leader. Needless to say, I’m furious about the Bush tax cut extension deal Obama made with Republicans, and I’m glad that Speaker Pelosi is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,95,852,81,44,114,20,1094,1193,694,6,7,3,9,45,467,17],"tags":[2792,1462,390,386,396,2848,702,376],"class_list":["post-4193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-44-humor","category-barack-obama","category-democrats-humor","category-democrats-satire","category-economy-humor","category-fiscal-policy","category-gop-humor","category-leadership-humor","category-money-finance-humor","category-pelosi-verse","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-tax-budget-humor","category-washington","category-white-house","tag-barack-obama","tag-bush-tax-cut-extension","tag-economy-satire","tag-financial-verse","tag-fiscal-crisis","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-republicans-humor","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","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=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4212,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions\/4212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
\nBy making this terrible deal.
\nYou’re acting the fool
\nWith this “compromise” gruel
\nWhich will damage our land’s commonweal.<\/p>\n
\nHe seems ornery, angry, dismayed.
\nWill he finally fight
\nThe Republican right?
\nNo, he’s mad at the Dems he betrayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"