{"id":710,"date":"2009-03-03T19:51:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T23:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=710"},"modified":"2009-03-04T00:24:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T04:24:53","slug":"gop-grovelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/03\/03\/gop-grovelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To GOP Grovelers (Song Parody)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s in charge of the GOP?  Based on all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_03\/017119.php\">groveling<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/americandebate\/In_thrall_to_Jabba_the_Hutt.html\">Limbaugh-tuckus-licking<\/a>, it&#8217;s surely the guy with &#8220;talent on loan from God&#8221;  &#8230; even though God foreclosed over a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest song parody &#8230; with apologies to Walt Disney, the founder of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/04\/18\/ode-to-an-earthquake\/\">alma mater<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Ode To GOP Grovelers<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s the leader of the clubby, selfish GOP?<br \/>\nSteele or Rush?<br \/>\n(Newt won&#8217;t hush.)<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re all the same to me.<\/p>\n<p>Mickey mouse,<br \/>\nMickey mouse.<br \/>\nHow ever do they hold their heads up high?<br \/>\nHigh, high, high.<\/p>\n<p>Each presumptive leader shares a callous policy.<br \/>\nCommonweal&#8217;s<br \/>\nNaught to Steele&#8217;s<br \/>\nAnd Limbaugh&#8217;s GOP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> The DCCC has a good sense of humor.  You&#8217;re sure to have fun with its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dccc.org\/content\/sorry\">Republican Apology Machine.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s in charge of the GOP? Based on all the groveling and Limbaugh-tuckus-licking, it&#8217;s surely the guy with &#8220;talent on loan from God&#8221; &#8230; even though God foreclosed over a decade ago. And that brings me to my latest song parody &#8230; with apologies to Walt Disney, the founder of my alma mater: Ode To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,26,526,519,3,525,9,51,4],"tags":[532,530,521,215,528,204,531,261,2753,402,527,529],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gop-humor","category-media-satire","category-michael-steele","category-newt-gingrich-humor","category-politics","category-radio-humor","category-republicans","category-rush-limbaugh","category-song-parodies","tag-apology","tag-cal-arts","tag-gingrich","tag-gop","tag-limbaugh","tag-media","tag-mickey-mouse","tag-radio","tag-republicans","tag-song-parody","tag-steele","tag-walt-disney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","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=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}