{"id":4213,"date":"2010-12-10T19:46:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T23:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4213"},"modified":"2010-12-10T19:46:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T23:46:48","slug":"bernie-sanders-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/12\/10\/bernie-sanders-filibuster\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Bernie Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, most of my limericks mock politicians or the media.  But today&#8217;s verse is in honor of the great Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) The stand he took today in his <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/133089-sanders-begins-filibuster-of-tax-deal-\">Senate filibuster of Obama&#8217;s tax deal<\/a> with the Republicans was wonderful to behold:<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Bernie Sanders<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Bravo for our hero, dear Bernie.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s engaged in a praise-worthy tourney.<br \/>\nHe honors the floor&#8212;<br \/>\nShows he&#8217;s great to his core.<br \/>\nWish more Democrats joined in his journey.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks also to the two Democratic senators  who joined him: Sherrod Brown of  Ohio and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, most of my limericks mock politicians or the media. But today&#8217;s verse is in honor of the great Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) The stand he took today in his Senate filibuster of Obama&#8217;s tax deal with the Republicans was wonderful to behold: Limerick Ode To Bernie Sanders By Madeleine Begun Kane Bravo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,1463,89,114,11,6,45,17],"tags":[2890,1462,191,396,511,1465,1230,1464,376,283],"class_list":["post-4213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-bernie-sanders","category-filibuster-humor","category-fiscal-policy","category-legislation","category-political-limericks","category-tax-budget-humor","category-white-house","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-bush-tax-cut-extension","tag-filibuster","tag-fiscal-crisis","tag-louisiana","tag-mary-landrieu","tag-ohio","tag-sherrod-brown","tag-taxes","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213","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=4213"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4224,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}