{"id":9156,"date":"2013-02-22T19:53:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T23:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=9156"},"modified":"2013-02-22T19:53:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T23:53:38","slug":"obamas-sequester-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/02\/22\/obamas-sequester-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Sequestration Blame Game (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Boehner&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/02\/20\/the-powerpoint-that-proves-it-s-not-obama-s-sequester-after-all.html\">2011 PowerPoint presentation<\/a> provides ample proof that sequestration originated with the Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>But even if we didn&#8217;t have that smoking gun slide show, the GOP&#8217;s attempt to label it &#8220;Obama&#8217;s sequester&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t pass the straight-face test. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dish.andrewsullivan.com\/2013\/02\/22\/the-sequester-showdown\/\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a> making that powerful point: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;I simply cannot see how a political party that has branded itself in favor of drastic spending cuts can somehow win a public debate in which they are now apparently opposing drastic spending cuts, and \u201cblaming\u201d them on Obama. And their branding means that the slow government shutdown we will almost certainly now face will surely stick more to them than to Obama. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sequestration Blame Game (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the key to the GOP brand?<br \/>\nBudget cuts that our land can&#8217;t withstand.<br \/>\nSo it&#8217;s laughably lame<br \/>\nThat they&#8217;re trying to claim<br \/>\nThe sequester&#8217;s Obama&#8217;s scheme grand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Boehner&#8217;s 2011 PowerPoint presentation provides ample proof that sequestration originated with the Republicans. But even if we didn&#8217;t have that smoking gun slide show, the GOP&#8217;s attempt to label it &#8220;Obama&#8217;s sequester&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t pass the straight-face test. Here&#8217;s Andrew Sullivan making that powerful point: &#8230;I simply cannot see how a political party that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,41,114,20,36,6,7,3,9,45],"tags":[2309,2792,2774,1516,2201,2763,2769,2310,682,702,2307],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156"}],"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=9156"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9174,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions\/9174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}