{"id":9089,"date":"2013-02-13T18:42:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T22:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=9089"},"modified":"2013-02-13T18:42:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T22:42:40","slug":"voting-rights-commission-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/02\/13\/voting-rights-commission-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Commission? “Ben” There, Done That (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I generally liked Obama’s SOTU speech. But his voting rights commission plan is unadulterated crapola. How do you give the illusion of dealing with a problem, while doing nothing at all? Appoint a commission. <\/p>\n

Obama’s decision to create a voter suppression commission would be bad enough. But he added insult to injury by naming Mitt Romney campaign lawyer Ben Ginsberg<\/a> to his two-person panel. The very same Ben Ginsberg who helped lead the 2000 recount effort for George W. Bush — an attorney who considers voter suppression a feature, not a bug.<\/p>\n

Another Commission? “Ben” There, Done That (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Since voter suppression’s the mission
\nOf Republicans, voter attrition
\nWill keep getting worse.
\nA commission’s a curse.
\nWe need action with great expedition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I generally liked Obama’s SOTU speech. But his voting rights commission plan is unadulterated crapola. How do you give the illusion of dealing with a problem, while doing nothing at all? Appoint a commission. Obama’s decision to create a voter suppression commission would be bad enough. But he added insult to injury by naming Mitt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,72,21,20,6,1120,7,3,9,887,610],"tags":[2288,2792,2285,2284,401,1250,1646,1103,1476,1679,1246],"class_list":["post-9089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-speeches","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-speeches-satire","category-voting-satire","tag-2000-recount","tag-barack-obama","tag-ben-ginsberg","tag-commissions-satire","tag-george-w-bush","tag-mitt-romney","tag-republicans-limerick","tag-sotu","tag-state-of-the-union-address","tag-voter-suppression","tag-voting-limerick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089","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=9089"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9101,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions\/9101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}