{"id":6839,"date":"2012-03-28T17:03:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T21:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6839"},"modified":"2012-03-28T17:03:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T21:03:39","slug":"mitt-romney-secret-plan-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/03\/28\/mitt-romney-secret-plan-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt&#8217;s &#8220;Telling&#8221; Message (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney has big plans to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/risk-averse-romney_634427.html\">&#8220;eliminate government programs and shutter cabinet agencies.&#8221;<\/a> Which ones are on his dump-list?  He refuses to say, responding, with a warped sort of honesty, that providing specifics could cost him the election.<\/p>\n<p>Or as <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/03\/mitt-i-wont-detail-plans-because-then-id-lose.html\">Jonathan Chait<\/a> amusingly puts it: &#8220;One of the things I have found in previous elections is that announcing my plans makes people want to vote against me!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mitt&#8217;s &#8220;Telling&#8221; Message (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>There are agencies Mitt doesn&#8217;t like<br \/>\nAnd programs he&#8217;s planning to spike.<br \/>\nBut he won&#8217;t tell us which<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s intending to ditch.<br \/>\nYou want pre-voting facts? Take a hike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney has big plans to &#8220;eliminate government programs and shutter cabinet agencies.&#8221; Which ones are on his dump-list? He refuses to say, responding, with a warped sort of honesty, that providing specifics could cost him the election. Or as Jonathan Chait amusingly puts it: &#8220;One of the things I have found in previous elections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,114,20,126,1193,6,7,3,9,45],"tags":[1516,202,2786,2764,1898,1562,1899,1422,1250,1246],"class_list":["post-6839","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-money-finance-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-tax-budget-humor","tag-budget-cuts","tag-cabinet","tag-campaign-humor","tag-election-satire","tag-federal-agencies","tag-federal-budget","tag-federal-programs","tag-jonathan-chait","tag-mitt-romney","tag-voting-limerick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839","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=6839"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6861,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions\/6861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}