{"id":4878,"date":"2011-04-19T17:05:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T21:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4878"},"modified":"2011-04-19T17:05:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T21:05:06","slug":"boehner-doma-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/04\/19\/boehner-doma-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"DOMA Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For someone who claims we&#8217;re broke, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/04\/19\/house-republicans-500k-defense-marriage-act_n_851035.html\">John Boehner certainly has some interesting priorities:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>House Republicans plan to pay former Solicitor General Paul Clement and his legal team from King &#038; Spaulding as much as $500,000 of taxpayer money to uphold the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) on behalf of House of Representatives&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2011_04\/029018.php\">Steve Benen<\/a> says: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; Boehner has been running around for months, falsely claiming, &#8220;We&#8217;re broke.&#8221; It&#8217;s how he justifies proposed cuts in critical areas like education, medical research, infrastructure, job training, and homeland security, even if it makes the jobs crisis much worse. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>DOMA Dollars<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>John Boehner asserts that we&#8217;re broke,<br \/>\nBut wastes cash to please wingnutty folk:<br \/>\nBig taxpayer bucks<br \/>\nOn a lawyer deluxe<br \/>\nTo save DOMA &#8212; for bigots bespoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For someone who claims we&#8217;re broke, John Boehner certainly has some interesting priorities: House Republicans plan to pay former Solicitor General Paul Clement and his legal team from King &#038; Spaulding as much as $500,000 of taxpayer money to uphold the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) on behalf of House of Representatives&#8230; As Steve Benen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[641,114,640,68,36,2,168,6,7,3,9,45,69],"tags":[1376,1546,1569,1568,390,642,2758,2769,1572,1296,1571,1570,2784],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878"}],"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=4878"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4889,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions\/4889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}