{"id":2797,"date":"2010-11-05T08:48:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T12:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2010-11-24T09:47:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T14:47:44","slug":"bachmann-vies-for-gop-leadership-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/11\/bachmann-vies-for-gop-leadership-post.html","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann vies for GOP leadership post"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2803\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2803\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2803\" href=\"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/11\/bachmann-vies-for-gop-leadership-post.html\/michelebachmann-by-gage-skidmore-on-flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2803\" title=\"MicheleBachmann (by Gage Skidmore on Flickr)\" src=\"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/MicheleBachmann-by-Gage-Skidmore-on-Flickr.jpg\" alt=\"Michele Bachmann\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Gage Skidmore on Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Congressional Tea Party Caucus leader <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/thenote\/2010\/11\/tea-party-favorite-bachmann-seeking-gop-leadership-post.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Bachmann has announced<\/a> she is running for the GOP Conference Chair now that Rep. Mike Pence has stepped down.\u00a0 If successful, this would make the Minnesota representative and Tea Party front-person the fourth highest ranking Republican in the House.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, has also announced his desire for the seat.\u00a0 Hensarling is a close political ally of Eric Cantor, which potentially sets this contest up as the first &#8220;Tea Party vs. establishment Republicans&#8221; fight of the new Congress.\u00a0 The vote is expected to happen on November 17th.<\/p>\n<p>The prospect of Bachmann&#8217;s rise in power and influence within the House is particularly troubling in light of her <a href=\"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/07\/tea-caucus.html\" target=\"_blank\">persistent tendency to buy into conspiracy theories<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 She raised fears about the census over concerns Obama would use the information to open conservative internment camps.\u00a0 She\u2019s convinced The Fed is conspiring to create a  single global currency.\u00a0 And she believes the healthcare bill promotes abortion  and rations care.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, she appeared on CNN&#8217;s AC 360 after the election and railed against Obama&#8217;s upcoming $2 billion dollar trip to Asia, which would include the redeployment of a tenth of the U.S. Navy, as an example of the waste that needs to be eliminated from government.\u00a0 Unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/?\/video\/bestoftv\/2010\/11\/04\/ac.obamas.india.trip.cost2.mov.cnn\" target=\"_blank\">as Anderson Cooper points out<\/a>, the notion that a Presidential trip could cost more per day than the war in Afghanistan is preposterous and untrue.<\/p>\n<p>A senior GOP aide on Capitol Hill <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2010\/11\/03\/5401453-bachmann-to-run-for-leadership-post-\" target=\"_blank\">told NBC News<\/a> that the chance of Bachmann securing the GOP Conference Chair is, \u201cslim to none.\u201d The aide continued, \u201cShe\u2019d be  hard-pressed to find the votes to win that job.\u201d\u00a0 However, given the number of Tea Party backed candidates that enabled the Republican takeover of the House, the pressure on the GOP establishment to give the Tea Party a seat at the leadership table may be significant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Tea Party Caucus leader Michele Bachmann has announced she is running for the GOP Conference Chair now that Rep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/11\/bachmann-vies-for-gop-leadership-post.html\" title=\"Read Bachmann vies for GOP leadership post\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,40,51,41],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-2010-elections","tag-gop","tag-michele-bachmann","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2932,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}