{"id":584,"date":"2009-02-08T16:21:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T20:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=584"},"modified":"2009-02-09T00:47:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T04:47:37","slug":"mad-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/02\/08\/mad-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Thought Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are Republicans insane? Their bombastic rants and stimulus bill obstructionism could easily lead to that conclusion.  <\/p>\n<p>But I think there&#8217;s a more basic explanation. Republicans are simply being consistent with their long-held GOP credo: <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>If at first you don&#8217;t succeed, make sure your successors don&#8217;t either.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Republicans insane? Their bombastic rants and stimulus bill obstructionism could easily lead to that conclusion. But I think there&#8217;s a more basic explanation. Republicans are simply being consistent with their long-held GOP credo: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If at first you don&#8217;t succeed, make sure your successors don&#8217;t either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,114,20,14,11,479,154,150,3,9,12,45,484],"tags":[480,215,477,2753,453],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584"}],"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=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}