{"id":7713,"date":"2012-08-20T17:46:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T21:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7713"},"modified":"2012-08-20T17:46:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T21:46:27","slug":"mitt-romney-welfare-smear-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/08\/20\/mitt-romney-welfare-smear-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Smear-Meister Mitt Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your average politician, when caught and called on a blatant lie, will stop repeating it.  But <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.com\/_news\/2012\/08\/20\/13379275-one-newspaper-two-perspectives\">not<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/post\/romney-keeps-lying-about-obama-and-welfare\/2012\/08\/20\/1c42b33e-ead2-11e1-866f-60a00f604425_blog.html\">Mitt Romney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mitt&#8217;s welfare-related smear, claiming Obama has ended welfare&#8217;s work mandates is indisputably false, having been famously debunked three weeks ago.  And yet Romney still won&#8217;t stop repeating it in speeches and using it in fresh ads.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Smear-Meister Mitt Romney<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>For Romney, the truth holds no sway,<br \/>\nAs his lies mount up day after day.<br \/>\nWelfare, health care and tax&#8212;<br \/>\nWith the facts he is lax,<br \/>\nTreating voters like ignorant prey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your average politician, when caught and called on a blatant lie, will stop repeating it. But not Mitt Romney. Mitt&#8217;s welfare-related smear, claiming Obama has ended welfare&#8217;s work mandates is indisputably false, having been famously debunked three weeks ago. And yet Romney still won&#8217;t stop repeating it in speeches and using it in fresh ads. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,72,21,20,126,6,7,3,9,2059],"tags":[2792,2786,2764,309,2058,1250,1758,2057],"class_list":["post-7713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-welfare-law-humor","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign-humor","tag-election-satire","tag-gop-lies","tag-mandates","tag-mitt-romney","tag-welfare","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713","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=7713"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7728,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713\/revisions\/7728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}