{"id":8472,"date":"2012-11-08T18:25:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T22:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=8472"},"modified":"2012-11-08T18:28:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T22:28:34","slug":"romney-election-loss-blame-game-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/11\/08\/romney-election-loss-blame-game-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Finger Pointing Blues (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a political party loses big time, the way the Republicans lost on Tuesday, there are two ways to go: 1) Careful introspection; or 2) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/11\/08\/karl_rove_reaps_the_whirlwind\/\">Blame game.<\/a> Guess which route the Republicans picked.<\/p>\n<p>Finger Pointing Blues (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The Republican game is &#8220;cast blame.&#8221;<br \/>\nFaulting somebody else is their aim.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s Sandy!  It&#8217;s Rove!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s Chris Christie, by Jove!<br \/>\nBut they lost cuz the GOP&#8217;s lame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a political party loses big time, the way the Republicans lost on Tuesday, there are two ways to go: 1) Careful introspection; or 2) Blame game. Guess which route the Republicans picked. Finger Pointing Blues (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane The Republican game is &#8220;cast blame.&#8221; Faulting somebody else is their aim. It&#8217;s Sandy! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,41,72,1674,21,20,57,126,6,7,3,9],"tags":[2792,2774,2903,1923,194,2162,2763,2152,2778,1250,702],"class_list":["post-8472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-blame-game","category-campaign-humor","category-chris-christie","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-karl-rove","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","tag-barack-obama","tag-blame-game","tag-chris-christie","tag-election-2012","tag-election-humor","tag-finger-pointing","tag-gop-humor","tag-hurricane-sandy","tag-karl-rove","tag-mitt-romney","tag-republicans-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472","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=8472"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8486,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions\/8486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}