{"id":4682,"date":"2011-03-14T22:21:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T02:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4682"},"modified":"2011-03-14T22:21:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T02:21:46","slug":"republicans-broke-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/03\/14\/republicans-broke-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Priorities (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen has some great comments about Republicans and their hypocritical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2011_03\/028450.php\">&#8220;we&#8217;re broke&#8221;<\/a> weaponry: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In December, when Republicans wanted an $858 billion tax-cut package, we weren&#8217;t broke. How much of that package did the GOP suggest we pay for? None of it. Not one penny. The costs were simply added to the deficit, and are the driving force behind the rising deficit estimates for this year, which have sent the right into such hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>But now we&#8217;re so broke, we&#8217;re told, that we have no choice but to make brutal cuts to education, medical research, infrastructure, job training, and national security, all of which is projected to cost the economy hundreds of thousands of jobs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Broken Priorities (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Republicans claim that we&#8217;re broke,<br \/>\nBut you know that they&#8217;re just blowing smoke.<br \/>\nHelp Big Oil and the rich?<br \/>\nThen they pull a big switch,<br \/>\nAnd our budget&#8217;s no longer a yoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen has some great comments about Republicans and their hypocritical &#8220;we&#8217;re broke&#8221; weaponry: In December, when Republicans wanted an $858 billion tax-cut package, we weren&#8217;t broke. How much of that package did the GOP suggest we pay for? None of it. Not one penny. The costs were simply added to the deficit, and are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,114,20,6,7,3,9,45],"tags":[1359,390,396,841,702,834,1360],"class_list":["post-4682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-humor","category-fiscal-policy","category-gop-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-tax-budget-humor","tag-deficit-hawks","tag-economy-satire","tag-fiscal-crisis","tag-republican-hypocrisy","tag-republicans-humor","tag-steve-benen","tag-tax-cuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682","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=4682"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4694,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions\/4694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}