{"id":6914,"date":"2012-04-11T19:11:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T23:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6914"},"modified":"2012-04-11T19:17:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T23:17:07","slug":"allen-west-communist-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/04\/11\/allen-west-communist-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Rep. Allen West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This undoubtedly sounds naive, but I keep expecting the GOP to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/opinion\/chapman\/chi-allen-west-republican-nutcase-20120411,0,1188822.story\">disavow Florida Rep. Allen West&#8217;s insane lies.<\/a>  (The guy makes your average Birther look nearly normal.) But so far, it hasn&#8217;t happened.<\/p>\n<p>West&#8217;s claim that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/news\/state\/allen-west-hears-cheers-jeers-at-town-hall-2295766.html\">up to 80 U.S. Congressional Democrats are Communists<\/a> is merely the latest example of West&#8217;s nutcase rantings.  And my search for evidence that Republicans are repudiating his pernicious nonsense yielded nothing but an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0412\/75037.html\">angry complaint and denial from Libero Della Piana, a vice-chairman of the Communist Party USA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Rep. Allen West<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Rep. Allen West<br \/>\nInvents scandalous falsehoods with zest.<br \/>\nHis mad claims don&#8217;t compute,<br \/>\nYet his party stays mute &#8212;<br \/>\nHis lies thus implicitly blessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This undoubtedly sounds naive, but I keep expecting the GOP to disavow Florida Rep. Allen West&#8217;s insane lies. (The guy makes your average Birther look nearly normal.) But so far, it hasn&#8217;t happened. West&#8217;s claim that up to 80 U.S. Congressional Democrats are Communists is merely the latest example of West&#8217;s nutcase rantings. And my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1925,1929,20,6,7,3,9,1119,69],"tags":[2914,1927,2911,2763,1926,1928,702,1663,2784],"class_list":["post-6914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allen-west","category-florida-humor","category-gop-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-tea-parties","category-wingnuts","tag-allen-west","tag-communist-party","tag-florida","tag-gop-humor","tag-house-democrats","tag-libero-della-piana","tag-republicans-humor","tag-tea-party","tag-wingnuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914","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=6914"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6930,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914\/revisions\/6930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}