{"id":6361,"date":"2012-02-03T15:26:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T19:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6361"},"modified":"2012-02-03T15:26:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T19:26:20","slug":"mitt-romney-safety-net-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/02\/03\/mitt-romney-safety-net-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep The Safety Net Safe From Mitt Romney (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been lots of talk about this <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2012\/02\/romney-not-concerned-about-the-very-poor\/\">Mitt Romney gaffe:<\/a> \u201cI\u2019m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I\u2019ll fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But as Ezra Klein points out, the problem with Mitt Romney isn&#8217;t his gaffes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/wonkbook-romneys-problem-isnt-his-gaffes-its-his-policies\/2012\/02\/02\/gIQA0WeBkQ_blog.html\">it&#8217;s his policies<\/a>, which would dig a deep hole in that safety net.<\/p>\n<p>Keep The Safety Net Safe From Mitt Romney (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Find some holes in the safety net? &#8220;Fix it!&#8221;<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s how hypocrite Romney depicts it.<br \/>\nBut we&#8217;re onto Mitt&#8217;s game<br \/>\nAnd his policy aim:<br \/>\nWhat his policies do is deep-six it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been lots of talk about this Mitt Romney gaffe: \u201cI\u2019m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I\u2019ll fix it.\u201d But as Ezra Klein points out, the problem with Mitt Romney isn&#8217;t his gaffes, it&#8217;s his policies, which would dig a deep hole in that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,114,20,126,6,7,3,9,45],"tags":[2786,2764,1562,1250,1797,1796,1360],"class_list":["post-6361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-fiscal-policy","category-gop-humor","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-tax-budget-humor","tag-campaign-humor","tag-election-satire","tag-federal-budget","tag-mitt-romney","tag-poverty","tag-safety-net","tag-tax-cuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361","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=6361"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6378,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361\/revisions\/6378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}