{"id":5705,"date":"2011-10-24T17:40:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T21:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5705"},"modified":"2011-10-24T17:40:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T21:40:32","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-obama-one-term-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/10\/24\/mitch-mcconnell-obama-one-term-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Villainous Mitch McConnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans have repeatedly blocked proposals they actually support, in order to gain political advantage over Obama.  This is no surprise, in light of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell&#8217;s stated priorities: He bragged that making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/political-animal\/2011_10\/if_the_villains_shoe_fits033041.php\">Obama a one-term president was his number one goal<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But McConnell now denies putting politics over the good of the country, claiming there&#8217;s no &#8220;villain out there who\u2019s keeping this administration from succeeding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Villainous Mitch McConnell<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Mitch McConnell denies there&#8217;s a villain<br \/>\nThat on purpose engages in killin&#8217;<br \/>\nThe President&#8217;s plans,<br \/>\nAfter promising fans<br \/>\nSuch destruction, a vow he&#8217;s fulfillin&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans have repeatedly blocked proposals they actually support, in order to gain political advantage over Obama. This is no surprise, in light of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell&#8217;s stated priorities: He bragged that making Obama a one-term president was his number one goal. But McConnell now denies putting politics over the good of the country, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,72,21,20,11,1445,6,7,3,9,184,12,467,17],"tags":[192,194,2889,702,1342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705"}],"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=5705"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5713,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705\/revisions\/5713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}