{"id":8981,"date":"2013-01-28T02:11:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T06:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=8981"},"modified":"2013-01-28T02:11:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T06:11:14","slug":"tom-harkin-retirement-filibuster-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/01\/28\/tom-harkin-retirement-filibuster-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Tom Harkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a headline I sure didn&#8217;t want to read: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2013\/01\/26\/1182291\/-Veteran-Iowa-Sen-Tom-Harkin-to-retire-after-the-2014-elections\">Veteran Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin to retire after the 2014 elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harkin, a staunch liberal who advocated for serious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/01\/24\/tom-harkin-filibuster-reform_n_2544153.html\">filibuster reform<\/a>, announced his retirement very shortly after Sen. Harry Reid caved and made a pathetically week filibuster &#8220;reform&#8221; deal with Sen. Mitch McConnell.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m no mind reader, I&#8217;m betting the two are connected.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Tom Harkin<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Tom Harkin is stepping aside.<br \/>\nHis loss will be hard to abide.<br \/>\nI blame Reid, cuz he blew<br \/>\nHis big chance for some true<br \/>\nFilibuster reform, which has died!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a headline I sure didn&#8217;t want to read: Veteran Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin to retire after the 2014 elections. Harkin, a staunch liberal who advocated for serious filibuster reform, announced his retirement very shortly after Sen. Harry Reid caved and made a pathetically week filibuster &#8220;reform&#8221; deal with Sen. Mitch McConnell. While I&#8217;m no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,196,1445,6,7,3,12],"tags":[2791,2826,2889,2267,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981"}],"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=8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9001,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions\/9001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}