{"id":7280,"date":"2012-06-12T15:01:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T19:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7280"},"modified":"2012-06-12T15:04:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T19:04:59","slug":"mitt-romney-too-many-cops-teachers-firemen-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/06\/12\/mitt-romney-too-many-cops-teachers-firemen-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Mitt &#8220;How Dare You Accuse Me Of Saying What I Said&#8221; Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney has a bad habit of pretending he didn&#8217;t say something that he actually said.  And claiming not to hold positions that he really holds.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, after getting flack for his stated opinion that we have <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/06\/08\/496799\/romney-says-america-doesnt-need-more-fireman-more-policemen-more-teachers\/\">too many cops, firemen, and teachers<\/a>, and that cutting such jobs is a good thing, he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/06\/12\/498019\/romney-teachers-absurd\/\">pretending<\/a> this never happened.  According to Mitt, to claim he said what he said and holds views that he really holds is \u201ca very strange accusation.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t believe Mitt for even a minute.  For while  the federal government doesn&#8217;t directly hire (or fire) cops, firemen, and teachers, Romney&#8217;s stated policies would starve the state and municipal budgets, causing cops, firefighters, and teachers to lose their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Mitt &#8220;How Dare You Accuse Me Of Saying What I Said&#8221; Romney<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Vote Mitt, if you think our supply<br \/>\nOf teachers and cops is too high,<br \/>\nAnd firemen too.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll be losing a slew<br \/>\nOf them all &#8212; that&#8217;s what Romney-votes buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney has a bad habit of pretending he didn&#8217;t say something that he actually said. And claiming not to hold positions that he really holds. For instance, after getting flack for his stated opinion that we have too many cops, firemen, and teachers, and that cutting such jobs is a good thing, he&#8217;s pretending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,72,466,885,21,114,20,1186,126,6,7,3,9],"tags":[2792,1516,1546,192,474,194,2002,2001,1250,702,2000,456],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280"}],"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=7280"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7299,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions\/7299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}