President Obama has been getting most of the credit for this week’s lame-duck Congress legislative achievements:<\/p>\n
* Repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell<\/em> But I think Majority Leader Harry Reid deserves much of the credit. Why? Because he finally figured out that the way to pass stuff is to treat Republicans like children and refuse to let them go home.<\/p>\n My haiku explains everything:<\/p>\n How to run Senate: President Obama has been getting most of the credit for this week’s lame-duck Congress legislative achievements: * Repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell * Ratification of the New START nuclear weapons treaty with Russia * The 9\/11 First Responders Health and Compensation Act * Food-Safety Bill But I think Majority Leader Harry Reid deserves much of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,5,71,7],"tags":[773,1470,1469,2826,788,476,1468],"class_list":["post-4277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harry-reid","category-news-haiku","category-political-haiku","category-political-verse","tag-dadt","tag-first-responders","tag-food-safety","tag-harry-reid","tag-lame-duck","tag-legislation-humor","tag-new-start-treaty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277","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=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4294,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions\/4294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n* Ratification of the New START nuclear weapons treat<\/em>y with Russia
\n* The 9\/11 First Responders Health and Compensation Act<\/em>
\n* Food-Safety Bill<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTell GOP “No TV
\nTill your homework’s done.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"