{"id":6340,"date":"2012-01-31T17:21:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T21:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2012-01-31T17:21:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T21:21:19","slug":"dan-burton-retirement-clinton-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/01\/31\/dan-burton-retirement-clinton-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Buh-Bye Dan Burton (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/house-races\/207647-rep-dan-burton-announces-retirement-plans\">Bill Clinton nemesis<\/a> Dan <a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/01\/indiana-congressman-dan-burton-retiring.php\">Burton is finally retiring.<\/a> Good riddance!<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Indiana Congressman, who fathered an out-of-wedlock son, was famed for his anti-Bill Clinton vendetta, his Vincent-Foster-was- murdered obsession, and his backyard Foster-shooting &#8220;re-enactment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Burton was at his most famous in the 1990\u2019s, when he led many of the investigations against President Bill Clinton. \u201cIf I could prove 10 percent of what I believe happened, he\u2019d [Clinton] be gone,\u201d Burton declared in 1998. \u201cThis guy\u2019s a scumbag. That\u2019s why I\u2019m after him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His campaigns against Clinton began in full force when he delivered a House speech in which he alleged that Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster, whose death was ruled a suicide, was actually murdered and his body moved to Fort Marcy Park in northern Virginia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Buh-Bye Dan Burton (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>At long last, we are closing the curtain<br \/>\nOn the slanderous reign of Dan Burton.<br \/>\nHis witch-hunt campaigns<br \/>\nTo put Clinton in chains<br \/>\nMean that Dems shall not miss him &#8212; that&#8217;s certain!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Clinton nemesis Dan Burton is finally retiring. Good riddance! The Republican Indiana Congressman, who fathered an out-of-wedlock son, was famed for his anti-Bill Clinton vendetta, his Vincent-Foster-was- murdered obsession, and his backyard Foster-shooting &#8220;re-enactment.&#8221; Burton was at his most famous in the 1990\u2019s, when he led many of the investigations against President Bill Clinton. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,15,1039,20,14,159,6,7,3,9,69],"tags":[2772,701,2864,493,1133,1795],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340"}],"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=6340"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6353,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions\/6353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}