{"id":745,"date":"2009-03-11T18:06:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T22:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=745"},"modified":"2009-03-11T18:06:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T22:06:50","slug":"distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/03\/11\/distraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Can’t Win An Argument On The Merits? Just Use The “Distraction” Gambit."},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans love to attack Obama’s initiatives by claiming they’re distractions from his “fix the economy” job. Apparently, if the economy continues to tank, it’s because he wasted all that time signing an executive order opening up stem cell research.<\/a><\/p>\n

Can’t Win An Argument On The Merits? Just Use The “Distraction” Gambit.
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

“Obama’s distracted. His plate
\nIs too full,” his detractors berate.
\n“His attention’s dispersed.
\nPut economy first.”
\nThe problem is nothing can wait.<\/p>\n

But Republicans don’t like his plans
\nAnd they often use indirect pans.
\nSo research and health
\nDon’t relate to our wealth?
\nBoosting science and health — they ain’t fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republicans love to attack Obama’s initiatives by claiming they’re distractions from his “fix the economy” job. Apparently, if the economy continues to tank, it’s because he wasted all that time signing an executive order opening up stem cell research. Can’t Win An Argument On The Merits? Just Use The “Distraction” Gambit. By Madeleine Begun Kane […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,44,114,20,154,6,7,3,9,84],"tags":[541,516,542,215,375,200,2753,545,543,544],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-economy-humor","category-fiscal-policy","category-gop-humor","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-science-verse","tag-distraction","tag-economy","tag-full-plate","tag-gop","tag-health-care","tag-obama","tag-republicans","tag-science-humor","tag-science-research","tag-stem-cells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","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=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}