{"id":764,"date":"2009-03-16T00:55:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T04:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=764"},"modified":"2009-03-16T00:55:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T04:55:46","slug":"dana-perino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/03\/16\/dana-perino\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Away Already, Bushie Spinmeisters!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bush-Cheney spinmeisters refuse to go away.  Last week it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/03\/13\/ari-fleischer\/\">Ari Fleischer<\/a>, and this week it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_03\/017299.php\">Dana Perino<\/a> on CSPAN&#8217;s Washington Journal. <\/p>\n<p>Perino actually said Bush should get some credit for last week&#8217;s stock market upswing.  And she falsely claimed for the gazillionth time that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/03\/15\/perino-bush-deserves-cred_n_175062.html\">Bush inherited a recession from Bill Clinton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. economy as of January 20, 2001.  U.S. economy as of January 20, 2009.  Exactly the same, right?<\/p>\n<p>Sigh&#8230; It&#8217;s time for a limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Go Away Already, Bushie Spinmeisters!<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Blame Barack when the stock market drops.<br \/>\nWhen it rises say Bush deserves props.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s Perino&#8217;s approach.<br \/>\n(Bush deserves no reproach.)<br \/>\nYes, at double talk Dana is tops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bush-Cheney spinmeisters refuse to go away. Last week it was Ari Fleischer, and this week it&#8217;s Dana Perino on CSPAN&#8217;s Washington Journal. Perino actually said Bush should get some credit for last week&#8217;s stock market upswing. And she falsely claimed for the gazillionth time that Bush inherited a recession from Bill Clinton. U.S. economy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,138,44,114,8,20,154,6,7,3,9,550,540,467,17],"tags":[2795,2772,206,554,2805,516,552,204,200,517,551,553,555],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-dana-perino","category-economy-humor","category-fiscal-policy","category-george-bush","category-gop-humor","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-spin-humor","category-stock-market-humor","category-washington","category-white-house","tag-ari-fleischer","tag-bill-clinton","tag-bush","tag-cspan","tag-dana-perino","tag-economy","tag-inauguration","tag-media","tag-obama","tag-recession","tag-spinmeister","tag-stock-market","tag-washington-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","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=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}