{"id":9271,"date":"2013-03-14T02:08:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T06:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=9271"},"modified":"2013-03-14T02:08:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T06:08:33","slug":"limerick-ode-to-republican-reformers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/03\/14\/limerick-ode-to-republican-reformers\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Republican &#8220;Reformers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sure hope you aren&#8217;t falling for the Republicans&#8217; pretense of reforming themselves. Although they&#8217;ve been pretending to moderate themselves in order to attract women and Latinos, their policies are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/the-gops-real-agenda-20130313\">more brutally extreme<\/a> than ever:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t be fooled. On the ground, a very different reality is unfolding: In the Republican-led Congress, GOP-dominated statehouses and even before the nation&#8217;s highest court, the reactionary impulses of the Republican Party appear unbowed. Across the nation, the GOP&#8217;s severely conservative agenda \u2013 which seeks to impose job-killing austerity, to roll back voting and reproductive rights, to deprive the working poor of health care, and to destroy agencies that protect the environment from industry and consumers from predatory banks \u2013 is moving forward under full steam.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Republican &#8220;Reformers&#8221;<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The GOP&#8217;s steaming ahead<br \/>\nWith plans that most people should dread.<br \/>\nThough they speak of reform,<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re reverting to norm,<br \/>\nThus ensuring we&#8217;re bled and unfed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sure hope you aren&#8217;t falling for the Republicans&#8217; pretense of reforming themselves. Although they&#8217;ve been pretending to moderate themselves in order to attract women and Latinos, their policies are more brutally extreme than ever: Don&#8217;t be fooled. On the ground, a very different reality is unfolding: In the Republican-led Congress, GOP-dominated statehouses and even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6,7,3,9],"tags":[2763,821,702],"class_list":["post-9271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gop-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","tag-gop-humor","tag-reform","tag-republicans-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271","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=9271"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9277,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions\/9277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}