{"id":3327,"date":"2010-11-10T03:21:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T11:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2010-11-10T03:21:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T11:21:09","slug":"bachmann-under-elephants-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/10\/bachmann-under-elephants-tail\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann: Under Elephant’s Tail?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michelle Bachmann saw the Teabaggers as her path to power, but it appears that she is going to be disappointed.  What she and the Teabaggers are about to discover, now that Republicans have won the House, that they have placed themselves right under the elephant\u2019s tail, and they are about to learn the consequences of that position.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"GOP-Shit\"When Rep. Mike Pence announced that he was stepping down from his position as head of the House Republican Conference, the Family Research Council immediately issued a statement [Theocons delinked]saying that choosing his replacement would be the "first major test for the new Republican majority."<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

The two leading candidates for the position are Rep. Jeb Hensarling and Rep. Michele Bachmann, and while Hensarling appears to be <\/font><\/font>emerging as the front-runner<\/font><\/a> and <\/font>racking up the support of GOP leaders<\/font><\/a><\/font>, it looks like the Religious Right is backing Bachmann<\/strong> [women against women’s rights delinked]:<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Concerned Women for America thinks … [t]here are plenty of competent and fearless leaders at the ready who deserve a seat at the table. Rep. Michele Bachmann from Minnesota comes to mind. She has been an outspoken conservative leader of the Tea Party movement from the beginning, and we think she deserves serious consideration for a leadership position.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Conservative women won big this election cycle, and the Tea Party helped to propel them to victory. In fact, women in general swung 14 points for Republicans. It seems time to add a stiletto to the clubby, well-heeled leadership team.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

And Richard Viguerie has even unveiled a petition [extremists delinked]asking Reps. Boehner and Cantor to "withdraw your endorsement of Rep. Hensarling for the House Republican Conference and allow Rep. Bachmann (or anyone else who wishes to join the race) a fair and open election process that equally respects the voice of each Republican House member."  <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Ostensibly, Viguerie’s petition is just asking for a fair election, but he is making no secret of his support for Bachmann [propaganda delinked]\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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When Fox Fantasy, the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, dumps on their own employee, that seals it, as Keith (Welcome Home) Olbermann and Chris Hayes discuss:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Normally, Neocons, Corporocons and Plutocons will goose-step behind the Theocon agenda, but adding the InsaniTEA wing to the picture complicates matters.  Republicans govern exclusively for the benefit of criminal corporations and the richest 1%.  That\u2019s who Republicans represent.  Some Teabagger ideas run contrary to those interests.  Therefore, they will keep the power for themselves.  That\u2019s why Batshit Bachmann and her Teabaggers are under the elephant\u2019s tail, and that\u2019s where they will stay until it\u2019s election season again.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michelle Bachmann saw the Teabaggers as her path to power, but it appears that she is going to be disappointed.  What she and the Teabaggers are about to discover, now that Republicans have won the House, that they have placed themselves right under the elephant\u2019s tail, and they are about to learn the consequences of […]<\/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-3327","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\/3327","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=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}