{"id":5534,"date":"2011-09-15T17:25:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T21:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2011-09-15T17:53:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T21:53:05","slug":"john-boehner-jobs-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/09\/15\/john-boehner-jobs-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To John Boehner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Boehner&#8217;s jobs speech was rather hypocritical, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/post\/two-sentences-from-john-boehners-speech\/2011\/03\/03\/gIQAj6uwUK_blog.html\">Greg Sargent points out<\/a>.  Sargent highlights two rather inconsistent sentences:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If we want to create a better environment for job creation, politicians of all stripes can leave the &#8216;my way or the highway&#8217; philosophy behind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And there was also this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tax increases, however, are not a viable option for the Joint Committee.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Such hypocrisy cries out for a limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To John Boehner<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Boehner&#8217;s job speech surprised me a tad.<br \/>\nHe said, <em>My way or highway is bad.<\/em><br \/>\nSounded promising till<br \/>\nHe continued, <em>No bill<br \/>\nWill raise taxes.<\/em> Hypocrisy&#8217;s sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Boehner&#8217;s jobs speech was rather hypocritical, as Greg Sargent points out. Sargent highlights two rather inconsistent sentences: &#8220;If we want to create a better environment for job creation, politicians of all stripes can leave the &#8216;my way or the highway&#8217; philosophy behind.&#8221; And there was also this: &#8220;Tax increases, however, are not a viable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159,36,11,6,1120,9],"tags":[1665,1517,2769,1582,841,376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534"}],"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=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5546,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions\/5546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}