{"id":136,"date":"2013-05-29T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/29\/bachmann-bows-out"},"modified":"2013-05-29T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:19:00","slug":"bachmann-bows-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann bows out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Rats.<\/p>\n<p>I was so hoping U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann would run for another term in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Republican \u2013 who\u2019s \u201cdistinguished\u201d herself in so many ways \u2013 now says she\u2019s won\u2019t seek another term in the House. <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2013\/05\/29\/rep_bachmann_says_she_wont_run_for_re-election_118600.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2013\/05\/29\/rep_bachmann_says_she_wont_run_for_re-election_118600.html\">http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2013\/05\/29\/rep_bachmann_says_she_wont_run_for_re-election_118600.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What will I do for political entertainment? <\/p>\n<p>Bachmann ran for president in 2012, trying to capture the tea party wing\u2019s vote in her party\u2019s primary campaign. It didn\u2019t work out too well for her. She kept saying goofy things and getting caught up in clumsy messes involving her husband\u2019s so-called efforts to talk people out of being gay. She accused congressional Democrats of being un-American and closet communists. She beat the \u201cdeath panel\u201d drum while trying to defeat President Obama\u2019s Affordable Care Act. <\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t think of some of the other things she said. Suffice to say she spoke ungracefully at times.<\/p>\n<p>Bachmann\u2019s announcement has Republicans breathing a bit more easily. She won re-election to her House seat narrowly in 2012 and was considered quite beatable by Democrats in 2014. Now that she\u2019s taken herself out of the game, the GOP now thinks it can hold her seat next year.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Bachmann says her political standing among Republicans had nothing to do with her decision to step aside. You\u2019d expect her to say that. I\u2019m not so sure.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever. I wish she\u2019d reconsider. We need you in the game, Rep. Bachmann. Politics can get dreary at times. We need you to liven it up.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rats. I was so hoping U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann would run for another term in the House of Representatives. The Minnesota Republican \u2013 who\u2019s \u201cdistinguished\u201d herself in so many ways \u2013 now says she\u2019s won\u2019t seek another term in the House. http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2013\/05\/29\/rep_bachmann_says_she_wont_run_for_re-election_118600.html What will I do for political entertainment? Bachmann ran for president in 2012, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=136\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bachmann bows out<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}