{"id":7450,"date":"2014-12-13T04:39:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T04:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7450"},"modified":"2014-12-13T04:39:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T04:39:03","slug":"merry-christmas-and-lets-bomb-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7450","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas &#8230; and let&#039;s bomb Iran?"},"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>Lame-duck U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann chose a fascinating venue to lobby the president of the United States to take military action against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>She was attending a Christmas party.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"v5TAJz3xv2\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/226924-at-christmas-party-bachmann-lobbies-obama-to-bomb-iran\/\">At Christmas party, Bachmann lobbies Obama to bomb Iran<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;At Christmas party, Bachmann lobbies Obama to bomb Iran&#8221; &#8212; The Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/226924-at-christmas-party-bachmann-lobbies-obama-to-bomb-iran\/embed\/#?secret=oksbbmkkMf#?secret=v5TAJz3xv2\" data-secret=\"v5TAJz3xv2\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the TEA party favorite was celebrating Christmas with the president and his family when she broached the subject of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The Hill newspaper reports that Obama gave her a condescending look and then laughed, according to Bachmann.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that.<\/p>\n<p>I am trying to imagine a less appropriate occasion to bring something like this up to the commander in chief. A state funeral comes to mind.<\/p>\n<p>A Christmas party &#8212; at the White House &#8212; ranks right up there in the ranks of inappropriate times and places\u00a0to talk about bombing a stated enemy of the United States with the man who&#8217;d order such a mission.<\/p>\n<p>A part of me rather wishes Rep. Bachmann was staying on for the 114th Congress. She&#8217;s so darn entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>A bigger part of me, however, is glad she&#8217;s leaving. I&#8217;m glad for the people of her congressional district, who in my view will benefit much more when they&#8217;re no longer represented by this clown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Lame-duck U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann chose a fascinating venue to lobby the president of the United States to take military action against Iran. She was attending a Christmas party. At Christmas party, Bachmann lobbies Obama to bomb Iran Yes, the TEA party favorite was celebrating Christmas with the president and his family when she broached &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7450\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merry Christmas &#8230; and let&#039;s bomb Iran?<\/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":[13],"tags":[540,978,2312,2316,3040,5246],"class_list":["post-7450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-christmas","tag-iran","tag-iran-nuclear-program","tag-michelle-bachmann","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450","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=7450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}