{"id":5657,"date":"2011-08-21T00:02:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T07:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5657"},"modified":"2011-08-21T00:02:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T07:02:46","slug":"bachmann-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/21\/bachmann-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a slow news day we can always count on Michelle Bachmann to entertain us.  That she is a leader in the quest for the nomination speaks volumes about how weak the Republican field is.  Here\u2019s yet another whopper for your enjoyment.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Bachmann_Cake\"As noted earlier this week<\/a><\/font>, Michele Bachmann may not be a doctor, but she certainly has an advanced degree in bullshit. Here she is on the campaign trail<\/a><\/font>, trying to appease her teabagger base with some personal, revisionist history: <\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cWe change the economy by changing the tax code. How many of you love the IRS? No! It\u2019s time to change it. I went to work in that system because the first rule of war is \u2018know your enemy.\u2019 So I went to the inside to learn how they work because I wanted to beat them.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

But according to the biography [Batsh*t delinked] on her Congressional website:<\/font><\/p>\n

Before holding elected office, Bachmann worked on hundreds of civil and criminal cases as a federal tax litigation attorney. Through her experience as a tax attorney, Bachmann came to understand firsthand the need to simplify the current tax code and reduce taxes on families and small businesses.<\/font><\/p>\n

…<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/p>\n

You\u2019d think she would have learned by now that she can\u2019t open her mouth without a fact checker showing up her outrageous lies.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a slow news day we can always count on Michelle Bachmann to entertain us.  That she is a leader in the quest for the nomination speaks volumes about how weak the Republican field is.  Here\u2019s yet another whopper for your enjoyment. As noted earlier this week, Michele Bachmann may not be a doctor, but […]<\/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-5657","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\/5657","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=5657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}