{"id":8642,"date":"2012-11-29T04:59:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T08:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=8642"},"modified":"2012-11-29T04:59:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T08:59:42","slug":"susan-rice-mccain-vendetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/11\/29\/susan-rice-mccain-vendetta\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice Madness (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte have a seemingly irrational vendetta against U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, centering on Benghazi. What explains it?  Well, Rachel Maddow has a fascinating theory, which  <a href=\"http:\/\/truth-out.org\/buzzflash\/commentary\/item\/17660-john-kerry-s-senate-seat-may-be-the-real-target-of-the-gop-benghazi-suicide-squad\">Mark Karlin buys<\/a>, as do I.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the theory works:<\/p>\n<p>1) Republicans are lusting after John Kerry&#8217;s Senate seat, eying it for soon-to-be ex-Senator Scott Brown.<\/p>\n<p>2) Kerry and Rice are the only contenders for Secretary of State.<\/p>\n<p>3) If Kerry gets State, he has to give up his seat, and Brown has a good shot at winning a special election to replace him.<\/p>\n<p>4) Rice is standing in Kerry&#8217;s way, so she must be eliminated by the McCain\/Graham\/Ayotte trio.<\/p>\n<p>In other words:<\/p>\n<p>Rice Madness (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>If Obama gives State to John Kerry<br \/>\nThe GOP&#8217;s bound to be merry:<br \/>\nScott Brown can then run<br \/>\nFor John&#8217;s seat. Oh what fun!<br \/>\nThis explains why they&#8217;ll Susan Rice bury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte have a seemingly irrational vendetta against U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, centering on Benghazi. What explains it? Well, Rachel Maddow has a fascinating theory, which Mark Karlin buys, as do I. Here&#8217;s how the theory works: 1) Republicans are lusting after John Kerry&#8217;s Senate seat, eying it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,20,40,77,6,7,3,9],"tags":[2792,2081,2773,2211,2789,2806,2209,2212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642"}],"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=8642"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8666,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions\/8666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}