{"id":7618,"date":"2012-08-06T00:08:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T04:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7618"},"modified":"2012-08-08T01:34:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T05:34:35","slug":"harry-reid-mitt-romney-no-taxes-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/08\/06\/harry-reid-mitt-romney-no-taxes-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Reid v. Romney (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased that Harry Reid&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2012\/08\/harry-reid-doubles-down\">doubled down<\/a> on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/07\/31\/harry-reid-romney-taxes_n_1724027.html\">claim that Mitt Romney<\/a> may not have paid taxes for ten years.  And I agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/08\/06\/nancy-pelosi-harry-reid-romney-taxes_n_1746894.html\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a>: If Reid says he has a good source on this, Reid has a good source on this. Unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.com\/_news\/2012\/08\/06\/13144744-romney-gets-caught-lying-about-obama-military-voters\">Mitt Romney<\/a>, Reid <strong>isn&#8217;t<\/strong> a liar.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of making assertions about what&#8217;s in his tax returns, Romney needs to follow custom and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/news\/reid-not-backing-down-on-romney-s-taxes-165167126.html\">release his returns.<\/a> If Romney&#8217;s lying about his tax returns now, it wouldn&#8217;t be the first time: He was caught <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/hot-news-views\/rachel-maddow-goes-deep-mitt-romneys-tax-return-hypocrisy\">lying about his tax returns back in 2002<\/a> regarding the critical issue of residency.<\/p>\n<p>Reid v. Romney (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad that Reid&#8217;s on the attack<br \/>\nAnd is giving Mitt Romney some flak.<br \/>\nI just wish Harry Reid<br \/>\nIn the Senate would lead<br \/>\nWith a similar street-fighting knack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Here&#8217;s a second limerick related to this topic:<\/p>\n<p>Harry Reid is not up for election,<br \/>\nSo his jab in Mitt Romney&#8217;s direction<br \/>\nIs fail-safe of course:<br \/>\nIf Reid&#8217;s wrong, then his source<br \/>\nJust misled him. Reid&#8217;s plan is perfection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased that Harry Reid&#8217;s doubled down on his claim that Mitt Romney may not have paid taxes for ten years. And I agree with Nancy Pelosi: If Reid says he has a good source on this, Reid has a good source on this. Unlike Mitt Romney, Reid isn&#8217;t a liar. Instead of making assertions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,20,196,126,6,7,3,9,45],"tags":[1975,192,194,2826,1250,2848,2030,376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618"}],"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=7618"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7686,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618\/revisions\/7686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}