{"id":5257,"date":"2011-07-16T16:18:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T20:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2011-07-16T16:18:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T20:18:58","slug":"paul-ryan-debt-ceiling-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/07\/16\/paul-ryan-debt-ceiling-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan, Educator???"},"content":{"rendered":"

The debt ceiling absolutely, positively must be raised to avoid a fiscal meltdown, and the Republican leadership knows it. But they’re saddled with a bunch of ignorant, “Tea Party” Congress-critters whose votes they desperately need.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the job of educating them about debt ceiling realities has fallen to Paul Ryan<\/a>, the Prince of Budget Misinformation. <\/p>\n

Here’s what I’m wondering: The “Tea Party” nuts bought Paul Ryan’s lies. Will they believe him when he speaks the truth?<\/p>\n

Paul Ryan, Educator???
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Though the GOP leadership’s tryin’
\nTo get Tea Party votes, they ain’t buyin’,
\nCuz they’re itchin’ to spike
\nAny debt ceiling hike.
\nNow the burden to school them’s on Ryan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The debt ceiling absolutely, positively must be raised to avoid a fiscal meltdown, and the Republican leadership knows it. But they’re saddled with a bunch of ignorant, “Tea Party” Congress-critters whose votes they desperately need. Ironically, the job of educating them about debt ceiling realities has fallen to Paul Ryan, the Prince of Budget Misinformation. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,44,114,20,1481,6,9,45,1119,69],"tags":[1573,390,1562,1576,1625,396,1574,2763,394,2891,1177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257"}],"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=5257"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5272,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions\/5272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}