{"id":9708,"date":"2013-10-08T22:38:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T02:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=9708"},"modified":"2013-10-08T22:38:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T02:38:42","slug":"republican-extortion-limeric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/10\/08\/republican-extortion-limeric\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Messaging (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In President Obama&#8217;s October 8 news conference about the current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/transcript-president-obamas-oct-8-news-conference-on-the-shutdown-and-debt-limit\/2013\/10\/08\/866088c0-3038-11e3-8906-3daa2bcde110_story.html\">budget and debt ceiling stalemate with Republicans<\/a>, Obama said: &#8220;We can&#8217;t make extortion routine as part of our democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clean Messaging (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>We <strong>can&#8217;t<\/strong> make extortion routine,<br \/>\nSaid Obama, and that&#8217;s why a clean<br \/>\nBill for spending and debt<br \/>\nIs a requisite get,<br \/>\nElse democracy&#8217;s sure to careen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In President Obama&#8217;s October 8 news conference about the current budget and debt ceiling stalemate with Republicans, Obama said: &#8220;We can&#8217;t make extortion routine as part of our democracy.&#8221; Clean Messaging (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane We can&#8217;t make extortion routine, Said Obama, and that&#8217;s why a clean Bill for spending and debt Is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,95,23,44,114,20,1186,196,52,36,11,6,7,3,9,467,17,69],"tags":[1573,390,2420,1562,1576,1625,2418,1560,394,2419,2769,851,2018,1423,702],"class_list":["post-9708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-44-humor","category-barack-obama","category-democracy-humor","category-economy-humor","category-fiscal-policy","category-gop-humor","category-government-services","category-harry-reid","category-health-satire","category-john-boehner","category-legislation","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-washington","category-white-house","category-wingnuts","tag-debt-ceiling","tag-economy-satire","tag-extortion","tag-federal-budget","tag-federal-debt","tag-federal-default","tag-government-default","tag-government-shutdown","tag-house-republicans","tag-house-speaker","tag-john-boehner","tag-legislation-satire","tag-obamacare-repeal","tag-president-obama","tag-republicans-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708","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=9708"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9722,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions\/9722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}