{"id":4362,"date":"2011-01-21T18:18:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T22:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4362"},"modified":"2011-01-21T18:46:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T22:46:08","slug":"broun-sotu-obama-venom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/01\/21\/broun-sotu-obama-venom\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Broun’s SOTU Claptrap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although I have strong feelings about most things political, I don’t care whether Democrats and Republicans adopt Sen. Mark Udall’s (D-CO) proposal to sit together<\/a> during Obama’s State of the Union address. I suppose it’s a nice civility gesture. But I just don’t think it makes much of a difference one way or another. <\/p>\n

That said, I think the frequently uncivil Rep. Paul Broun’s<\/a> (R-GA) reaction to the mixed seating proposal was absurd: <\/p>\n

I already believe very firmly that it is a trap and a ruse that Democrats are proposing. They don’t want civility. They want silence from the Republicans. And the sitting together being kissy-kissy is just another way to try to silence Republicans, and also to show \u2014 to keep the American people from seeing how few of them there are in the U.S. House now. Then when people stand up to \u2014 what the Democrats are going to be doing when Barack Obama spews out all his venom, then, um, if they’re scattered throughout all the Republicans, then it won’t be as noticeable as if we’re sitting apart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Rep. Broun’s SOTU Claptrap
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Rep. Broun is a very odd chap:
\nSays mixed seating at SOTU’s a “trap.”
\nWhen “Obama spews out
\nAll his venom” can’t shout.
\nNearby Dems might force poor Broun to clap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although I have strong feelings about most things political, I don’t care whether Democrats and Republicans adopt Sen. Mark Udall’s (D-CO) proposal to sit together during Obama’s State of the Union address. I suppose it’s a nice civility gesture. But I just don’t think it makes much of a difference one way or another. That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185,95,15,20,14,154,6,7,3,9,467,17,69],"tags":[1480,701,1479,1478,1477,1423,1103,1476],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362"}],"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=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4378,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions\/4378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}