{"id":4228,"date":"2010-12-16T11:25:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T15:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4228"},"modified":"2010-12-16T11:25:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T15:25:35","slug":"boehner-crocodile-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/12\/16\/boehner-crocodile-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Booing Boehner’s Boo-Hooing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gail Collins isn’t too impressed with incoming speaker of the House John Boehner’s Crying Game<\/a>, and neither am I. <\/p>\n

And Timothy Egan does a great job seeing through Boehner’s bountiful tears:<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s when he talks about how he rose from his humble past \u2014 the son of a bar owner, one of 12 children who grew up in a small home with a single bathroom \u2014 that Boehner starts to weep.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking sure these kids have a shot at the American Dream like I did is very important,\u201d he said, choking up, when asked on \u201c60 Minutes\u201d about his crying.<\/p>\n

But a look at Boehner\u2019s record during his two decades in Congress shows a man who has voted against nearly every boost for the working stiff. There\u2019s no empathy for those with the longest shots at the American Dream in his voting pattern. Instead, we see a politician who is hard-hearted in his legislative treatment of the people now coping with the kind of economic conditions in which the Boehner family grew up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n

Booing Boehner’s Boo-Hooing
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Rep. Boehner cries crocodile tears.
\nHe’s been feigning compassion for years.
\nThough his tears say “he cares,”
\nHis vote record blares
\nThat he likes kicking poor folk downstairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gail Collins isn’t too impressed with incoming speaker of the House John Boehner’s Crying Game, and neither am I. And Timothy Egan does a great job seeing through Boehner’s bountiful tears: It\u2019s when he talks about how he rose from his humble past \u2014 the son of a bar owner, one of 12 children who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20,14,159,36,6,7,3,9],"tags":[1466,211,2769],"class_list":["post-4228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-gop-humor","category-house","category-hypocrisy-humor","category-john-boehner","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","tag-crocodile-tears","tag-gail-collins","tag-john-boehner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228","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=4228"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4243,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions\/4243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}