{"id":4804,"date":"2011-04-04T22:49:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T02:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2011-04-05T00:39:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T04:39:26","slug":"newt-gingrich-obama-extort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/04\/04\/newt-gingrich-obama-extort\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt Strikes Out Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really have to give Newt Gingrich credit — he’s consistent in his visceral hatred for all things Obama. Here’s Newt’s latest gem of a quote<\/a> in response to President Obama’s reelection campaign announcement:<\/p>\n

“Here’s a president who 18 months before the election is going to use his office to extort contributions on a scale we’ve never seen before,” Gingrich said in New Hampshire where he addressed the Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester. “He’s in effect trying to create a Chicago style machine for the whole country with a billion dollars.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Newt Strikes Out Again
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Here’s another new Newt-think contortion —
\n(Newt’s brain cells seem packed with distortion.)
\nHe was fine when Prez Bush
\nHad a fund-raising push.
\nLet a Dem do the same? It’s extortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really have to give Newt Gingrich credit — he’s consistent in his visceral hatred for all things Obama. Here’s Newt’s latest gem of a quote in response to President Obama’s reelection campaign announcement: “Here’s a president who 18 months before the election is going to use his office to extort contributions on a scale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,72,21,20,519,6,7,3,9],"tags":[2792,192,194,1461,729],"class_list":["post-4804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-newt-gingrich-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign-satire","tag-election-humor","tag-fund-raising","tag-newt-gingrich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804","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=4804"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4820,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions\/4820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}