{"id":4734,"date":"2011-03-25T16:55:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T20:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4734"},"modified":"2011-03-31T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T04:48:18","slug":"newt-gingrich-libya-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/03\/25\/newt-gingrich-libya-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"That Newt&#8217;s A Beaut (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have very mixed feelings about Obama&#8217;s handling of Libya and U.S. involvement in military operations against Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s Libya. But unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2011_03\/028616.php\">Newt Gingrich<\/a>, I don&#8217;t routinely contradict myself on the topic, while pretending to think about running for president.<\/p>\n<p>That Newt&#8217;s A Beaut<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Newt Gingrich is caught in a bind<br \/>\nCuz he can&#8217;t resist changing his mind.<br \/>\nUnable to choose<br \/>\nFrom his Libyan views,<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s had lots of them &#8212; all ill-defined.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a method behind Newt&#8217;s mad song:<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s condemning Obama as wrong.<br \/>\nIf Obama should do<br \/>\nWhat Newt counsels, on cue<br \/>\nMister Newt to that view says &#8220;So long.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have very mixed feelings about Obama&#8217;s handling of Libya and U.S. involvement in military operations against Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s Libya. But unlike Newt Gingrich, I don&#8217;t routinely contradict myself on the topic, while pretending to think about running for president. That Newt&#8217;s A Beaut By Madeleine Begun Kane Newt Gingrich is caught in a bind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,38,159,519,6,7,3,1551,1022,17],"tags":[2792,2771,1547,776,1549,729,347,841,374],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734"}],"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=4734"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4768,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions\/4768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}