{"id":36510,"date":"2013-05-29T07:47:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T12:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36510"},"modified":"2013-05-29T07:50:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T12:50:37","slug":"the-game-changer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36510","title":{"rendered":"The Game-Changer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After eight years in office, Michele Bachmann is <a href=\"http:\/\/eyeonpolitics.com\/2013\/05\/29\/breaking-michele-bachmann-will-not-seek-another-term\/\">retiring from Congress<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q-nV4AGV50I\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A few questions for the audience:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who Is Emanuelle Goldstein?:\u00a0<\/strong>Extremists like the MNDFL has become need enemies. \u00a0The Minnesota Left will need to invent a new <em>bete noir<\/em>, someone on which to focus all their \u00a0insecurity and hatred, to keep them motivated. \u00a0Bachmann has served this role for over a decade and a half, between her Congressional, State Senate and educational organizing careers. \u00a0Bachmann bedeviled the local left by seeming to thrive on their hatred, turning it back on them with a wink and a smile and a dismissive quip. \u00a0So who does the MNDFL&#8217;s depraved, insane fringe pick as their new Demon?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next?: \u00a0<\/strong>The Sixth is one of the few districts in the state with a deep bench of solid, polished GOP contenders. \u00a0Who should run to replace Michele?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dead Air?: \u00a0<\/strong>With Michele Bachmann out of public life, what will Jack Tomczak talk about?<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m a kidder. \u00a0I kid. \u00a0I love Jack and Ben&#8217;s show. \u00a0But still&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tarry Not:\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0Does Tarryl Clark already have her U-Haul loaded up, or what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After eight years in office, Michele Bachmann is retiring from Congress: A few questions for the audience: Who Is Emanuelle Goldstein?:\u00a0Extremists like the MNDFL has become need enemies. \u00a0The Minnesota Left will need to invent a new bete noir, someone on which to focus all their \u00a0insecurity and hatred, to keep them motivated. \u00a0Bachmann has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,72,13],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-36510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-congressional","category-mngop","category-republicans","tag-mn-cd6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36510","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=36510"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36512,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36510\/revisions\/36512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}