{"id":73,"date":"2007-01-05T03:02:42","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T07:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/01\/05\/bushs-surge-speech-a-mad-preview\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T04:29:40","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T08:29:40","slug":"bushs-surge-speech-a-mad-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/01\/05\/bushs-surge-speech-a-mad-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush&#8217;s Surge Speech: A Mad Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Bush war speech is on the horizon. Oh, goody! Actually, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ll be able to force myself to watch next week&#8217;s speech, in which Bush is expected to <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/01\/03\/escalation-political-decision\/\">announce a politically motivated<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/uncapitalist.com\/blog\/?itemid=1474\">&#8220;surge and accelerate plan.&#8221;<\/a> But I&#8217;ve heard enough Bush speeches to sum\u00a0this one up in a limerick, without even seeing it:<\/p>\n<p>Bush&#8217;s Surge Speech: A Mad Preview<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>It appears that we&#8217;re right on the verge<br \/>\nOf\u00a0 what Bush and McCain call a surge.<br \/>\nOnce again, George the Madman<br \/>\nBehaves like an adman<br \/>\nWhose product leads only to dirge.<\/p>\n<p>=========<\/p>\n<p>And now some links, for your reading (and viewing) pleasure:<br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/xnerg.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/mail-fraud.html\">Mail Fraud (Skippy)<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/satiricalpolitical.com\/?p=494\">Ten &#8216;Bombshells&#8217; From Rudy&#8217;s Secret Dossier (Don Davis)<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/onegoodmove.org\/1gm\/1gmarchive\/2007\/01\/special_comment.html\">Keith Olbermann&#8217;s Special Comment on Sacrifice (OneGoodMove)<\/a>\u00a0[tags]Iraq War, Bush Speech, Surge, Iraq Surge, Surge &#038; Accelerate Plan, Sacrifice, McCain[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Bush war speech is on the horizon. Oh, goody! Actually, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ll be able to force myself to watch next week&#8217;s speech, in which Bush is expected to announce a politically motivated &#8220;surge and accelerate plan.&#8221; But I&#8217;ve heard enough Bush speeches to sum\u00a0this one up in a limerick, without even seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20,19,6,7,3,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-george-bush","category-gop-humor","category-iraq-war","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","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=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}