{"id":1172,"date":"2008-10-24T06:18:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T10:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2008-10-24T06:18:17","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T10:18:17","slug":"friday-open-thread-113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2008\/10\/24\/friday-open-thread-113\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Michelle Bachman.  All she wants to do is root out un-American members of Congress (here&#8217;s an idea: why not create a House Un-American Activities Committee), and now <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/10\/new_poll_bachmann_fighting_for.php\">she&#8217;s facing some real consequences for her patriotism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first independent poll is out in Minnesota&#8217;s Sixth District, which has been put into contention thanks to Rep. Michele Bachmann&#8217;s (R-MN) McCartheyesque rant on Hardball last week &#8212; and it shows a race that could be tightly contested all the way to Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>The new numbers from SurveyUSA: Democratic candidate El Tinklenberg 47%, Bachmann 44%, and Independence Party candidate Bob Anderson 6%, with a \u00c2\u00b14% margin of error.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh well.  I&#8217;m sure Bachman&#8217;s willing to make the supreme (political) sacrifice, spend more time with her family, and maybe become a seven figure lobbyist or a highly paid speaker on the wingnut circuit.  Maybe even score a gig with Fux News.  I wonder if she can wear Caribou Barbie&#8217;s hand-me-downs?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Michelle Bachman. All she wants to do is root out un-American members of Congress (here&#8217;s an idea: why not create a House Un-American Activities Committee), and now she&#8217;s facing some real consequences for her patriotism. The first independent poll is out in Minnesota&#8217;s Sixth District, which has been put into contention thanks to Rep. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}