White House and Congress
\nbought and managed by donors —
\npuppet theater.<\/p>\n
*****<\/p>\n
An epidemic —
\npolitical hypocrites —
\nToday’s GOP.<\/p>\n
*****<\/p>\n
Unlimited cash
\nfrom corporations to pols —
\ndemocracy dies.<\/p>\n
****<\/p>\n
Economic growth
\nstill not translating to jobs —
\nRepublicans shrug.<\/p>\n
*****<\/p>\n
Republican cuts
\nto budget sure to kill jobs —
\nBoehner: “So be it.”<\/p>\n
*****<\/p>\n
Deliberately
\ndestroying economy
\nseemed unthinkable.
\nNo longer a silly thought —
\nGOP election goal.<\/p>\n
******<\/p>\n
Author’s Note: These haiku and tanka were inspired in part by the following prompts: puppet<\/a>, epidemic<\/a>, unlimited<\/a>, growth<\/a>, and silly<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" White House and Congress bought and managed by donors — puppet theater. ***** An epidemic — political hypocrites — Today’s GOP. ***** Unlimited cash from corporations to pols — democracy dies. **** Economic growth still not translating to jobs — Republicans shrug. ***** Republican cuts to budget sure to kill jobs — Boehner: “So be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,44,21,114,159,36,1193,5,71,7,3,9],"tags":[1516,701,1092,884,1507,194,396,1461,1517,2769,1508,1556,841],"class_list":["post-4633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-economy-humor","category-election-satire","category-fiscal-policy","category-hypocrisy-humor","category-john-boehner","category-money-finance-humor","category-news-haiku","category-political-haiku","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","tag-budget-cuts","tag-congress-humor","tag-democracy","tag-donations","tag-economy-haiku","tag-election-humor","tag-fiscal-crisis","tag-fund-raising","tag-jobs","tag-john-boehner","tag-political-haiku-senryu","tag-political-tanka","tag-republican-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633","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=4633"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4821,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions\/4821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}