{"id":7190,"date":"2012-05-22T16:17:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T20:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7190"},"modified":"2012-05-22T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T20:20:11","slug":"mitt-romney-bain-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/05\/22\/mitt-romney-bain-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Mitt “Job Creator” Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"

So let me get this straight: Mitt Romney has disavowed his singular accomplishment as Massachusetts governor (universal health care). And for the most part, he’s resting his claim to the presidency on his Bain-related expertise and accomplishments. He even asserts (without any proof) to have been a big “job creator” there. And yet Romney has the audacity to declare his Bain years off-limits to examination and critique by Obama and other Democrats.<\/a><\/p>\n

As Ezra Klein<\/a> points out:<\/p>\n

Romney\u2019s national platform … calls for doing less for the victims of the global economy. He wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would guarantee that workers would get health insurance even if they lost their jobs in, say, a private-equity led restructuring. He wants to pay for large tax cuts and more defense spending by cutting funds for Medicaid, for food stamps, for worker retraining, and for housing subsidies. He wants to cut Social Security benefits. He has no detailed plans to improve the continuing education system, or worker retraining programs, such that displaced machinists have a better chance to find a new job.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the ads in which laid-off steelworkers say Romney just doesn\u2019t care about people like them are so effective. As head of Bain, it was Romney\u2019s job not to care about them. But as a presidential candidate, it\u2019s his job to show that he does care about them. So far, he hasn\u2019t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Limerick Ode To Mitt “Job Creator” Romney
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Romney brags of his Bain expertise—
\nSays it’s earned him the White Houses’s keys.
\nYet he’s sore, slams the door,
\nSays how dare we explore
\nWhat exactly he did for those fees.<\/p>\n

Dear Mitt, you can’t have it both ways.
\nYour record’s reviewed in this phase:
\nWhen you proudly proclaim
\nYou know biz, it’s fair game
\nTo appraise your Bain management ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So let me get this straight: Mitt Romney has disavowed his singular accomplishment as Massachusetts governor (universal health care). And for the most part, he’s resting his claim to the presidency on his Bain-related expertise and accomplishments. He even asserts (without any proof) to have been a big “job creator” there. And yet Romney has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,31,72,44,21,114,20,126,6,7,3,9,45,17],"tags":[1978,2792,1977,1488,2786,390,2764,1574,1976,1517,1250,2761],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190"}],"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=7190"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7211,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190\/revisions\/7211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}