{"id":17481,"date":"2011-01-18T08:03:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T14:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17481"},"modified":"2011-01-18T08:03:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T14:03:06","slug":"go-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17481","title":{"rendered":"Go Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Politico, a great piece on\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0111\/47717.html\">Michele Bachmann&#8217;s future, and what she may need to do to get there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She could go waaaaay up &#8211; or stay pretty well put, at least in terms of national GOP politics.<\/p>\n<p>Her style certainly makes waves:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bachmann came under fire in 2007 after she had claimed, in an interview with a local newspaper, to \u201cknow of an Iranian plan for the partition of Iraq in which Iran would control half the country and set it up as \u2018a terrorist safe haven zone\u2019 and a staging area for attacks around the Middle East and on the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some Republican lawmakers said Bachmann has worked hard on other committees and proved herself sufficiently to win the prized intelligence slot. Despite her vocal reputation, that could help her rebrand herself as more lawmaker than showstopper and boost her credentials for a run at higher office, such as the White House or, more likely, the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat ultimately would be in the view of the voters, but certainly it would help,\u201d said a Bachmann aide of the committee assignment. \u201cWe feel like that would be a good thing, to bring a different dimension in; she\u2019s a tax lawyer, so she\u2019s usually weighing in on economic issues &#8230; this adds a layer to her experience.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Politico, a great piece on\u00a0\u00a0Michele Bachmann&#8217;s future, and what she may need to do to get there. She could go waaaaay up &#8211; or stay pretty well put, at least in terms of national GOP politics. Her style certainly makes waves: Bachmann came under fire in 2007 after she had claimed, in an interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17482,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17481\/revisions\/17482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}