When a candidate tries to distance himself from, say, his doctoral thesis, or a book written a dozen years ago, this passes the straight-face test.<\/p>\n
But when Rick Perry tries this with Fed Up!<\/a> (a book published last fall) it’s hard not to laugh out loud.<\/p>\n Perry’s problem, of course, is that his book is packed with extreme positions,<\/a> too radical even for his own Republican party. So Perry’s campaign would have us believe that Perry’s Social Security is unconstitutional<\/em> position from last year is no longer operative.<\/a> The same goes for his call to repeal the 16th amendment and replace income taxes with a national sales tax<\/a>.<\/p>\n Limerick Ode To Rick “Fed Up With My Book!” Perry Dear Perry, that book you’d disclaim When a candidate tries to distance himself from, say, his doctoral thesis, or a book written a dozen years ago, this passes the straight-face test. But when Rick Perry tries this with Fed Up! (a book published last fall) it’s hard not to laugh out loud. Perry’s problem, of course, is that his book is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,72,21,114,1193,113,6,7,3,635,611,17,69],"tags":[1647,192,194,1649,537,1648,2797,2845,1419,617,1075],"class_list":["post-5416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-fiscal-policy","category-money-finance-humor","category-political-books","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-rick-perry","category-texas-humor","category-white-house","category-wingnuts","tag-16th-amendment","tag-campaign-satire","tag-election-humor","tag-fed-up","tag-income-tax","tag-national-sales-tax","tag-political-books","tag-rick-perry","tag-social-security","tag-texas","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416","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=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5435,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions\/5435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
\nWas written by you — you’re to blame.
\nAnd it’s new — ink’s not dry.
\nYet you’re wondering why
\nWe’re on to your radical game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"