{"id":5967,"date":"2011-12-19T17:27:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T21:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5967"},"modified":"2011-12-19T17:27:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T21:27:57","slug":"rick-perry-budget-cuts-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/12\/19\/rick-perry-budget-cuts-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Math-Challenged Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Perry&#8217;s latest &#8220;oops&#8221; moment reminds me of this old SNL parody debate line: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/television\/news\/2004-11-01-snl_x.htm\">&#8220;It was my understanding that there would be no math.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m referring to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/oops-rick-perry-cut-5-trillion-3-7-trillion-budget-article-1.993140#ixzz1gv4GAKHa\">Perry&#8217;s &#8220;impressive&#8221; U.S. budget cut pledge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rick Perry made another slip on Saturday when he pledged to cut a whopping $5 trillion from President Barack Obama&#8217;s proposed budget &#8211; a number which is $1.3 million higher than Obama&#8217;s total budget, CBS News reported.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Math-Challenged Perry<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Perry&#8217;s &#8220;oops&#8221; lines continue to mount.<br \/>\nOf wisdom the guy ain&#8217;t a fount:<br \/>\nTouts a huge budget cut<br \/>\nWhich exceeds the whole nut.<br \/>\nGuess we don&#8217;t need a prez who can count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Perry&#8217;s latest &#8220;oops&#8221; moment reminds me of this old SNL parody debate line: &#8220;It was my understanding that there would be no math.&#8221; I&#8217;m referring to Perry&#8217;s &#8220;impressive&#8221; U.S. budget cut pledge: Rick Perry made another slip on Saturday when he pledged to cut a whopping $5 trillion from President Barack Obama&#8217;s proposed budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,20,6,7,3,9,635],"tags":[1546,192,194,702,2845,1728,1727],"class_list":["post-5967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-rick-perry","tag-budget-limerick","tag-campaign-satire","tag-election-humor","tag-republicans-humor","tag-rick-perry","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967","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=5967"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5976,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967\/revisions\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}