{"id":10377,"date":"2013-05-31T03:12:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T10:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10377"},"modified":"2013-05-31T03:12:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T10:12:02","slug":"good-riddance-to-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/31\/good-riddance-to-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddance to Crazy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is actually one day out of date, as I started to prepare it for yesterday, so I presume that by now, you all know that Michele Bachmann (R-InsaniTEA) will be stepping down after this term.  That should increase the intelligence on the House Intelligence Committee by a bunch of IQ points!  She did not actually say why.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"MBR\"Michele Bachmann, a Tea Party firebrand and 2012 presidential contender, announced on Wednesday she will not seek re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives but said her surprise decision had nothing to do with multiple investigations into her campaign finances<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Bachmann, a conservative Minnesota Republican whose outspoken style and sharp criticism of President Barack Obama made her a prominent and polarizing national figure, did not give a specific reason for stepping down. But she said she was not ducking the likelihood of a difficult re-election fight in her suburban Minneapolis district<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Bachmann, 57, faced a probable rematch next year with Democrat Jim Graves, who came within 1 percentage point of beating her in 2012 in a congressional district that was carried easily by Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

"My decision was not influenced by any concerns about my being re-elected," Bachmann said in an 8-1\/2 minute video<\/a> announcement posted on her campaign website in which she sat in front of a bookcase and spoke over light rock music reminiscent of political ads\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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If I were a very cruel man, I would give you Bachmann’s entire 8+ minute diatribe, but Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow both covered the story far better, so I\u2019ll spare you that torture.<\/font><\/p>\n

Chris interviewed Dan Savage and Joan Walsh.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

They are correct that Bachmann merely states commonly held Republican views more openly that her less rabid colleagues.<\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel and Frank Rick review Bachmann’s many absurd statements and demonstrations of ignorance.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Is that an collection of InsaniTEA or what? The sad thing is that millions of Faux Noise<\/em> sheeple believe every word of it to this day. Sadder yet, there is no shortage of Republican wing-nuts in Congress to take over the role she plays.<\/font><\/p>\n

I think Bachmann is resigning for two reasons. The first is that she will be hard pressed to hold on to her seat. The second is the investigations into her criminal campaign practices. How can I tell this? It’s obvious! She said they were not the reasons, demonstrating conclusively that they are.<\/font><\/p>\n

The bottom line still remains that every Republican in office is one Republican too many<\/strong>!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is actually one day out of date, as I started to prepare it for yesterday, so I presume that by now, you all know that Michele Bachmann (R-InsaniTEA) will be stepping down after this term.  That should increase the intelligence on the House Intelligence Committee by a bunch of IQ points!  She did not […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}