{"id":194157,"date":"2008-10-18T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/18\/it-was-only-a-matter-of-time\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T02:25:00","slug":"it-was-only-a-matter-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/18\/it-was-only-a-matter-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"It Was Only a Matter of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/13678\/michele-bachmanns-hardball-blowup-minnesotans-knew-it-was-only-a-matter-of-time\">Minnesota Independent<\/a> so eloquently stated, &#8220;putting Bachmann in front of a live microphone is like handing an excitable 15-year-old a bottle of gin and a loaded gun. The only question is when something unspeakable is going to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Heh&#8230;.In any case, if you&#8217;ve followed her career, and things like accusations of attempted lesbian kidnapping, secret plans to give Iraq to Iran, and lord know what else that I&#8217;ve missed, we now see this missive:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>On Friday, Bachmann, R-Minn., told MSNBC talk show host Chris Matthews she thought Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle \u201cmay have anti-American views\u201d and said the media should investigate whether members of Congress are \u201cpro-America or anti-America.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, this woman is flat out nuts, and within 24 hours of her latest deranged outburst, her opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg<sup>*<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20081018\/NEWS01\/110180039\/1009\">got more than <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">$450,000.00<\/span> in campaign contributions in the next 24 hours<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I know that it&#8217;s not nice to make fun of someone&#8217;s name, but he sounds like a character from Garrison Keillor&#8217;s fictional Lake Wobegone.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Minnesota Independent so eloquently stated, &#8220;putting Bachmann in front of a live microphone is like handing an excitable 15-year-old a bottle of gin and a loaded gun. The only question is when something unspeakable is going to happen.&#8221; Heh&#8230;.In any case, if you&#8217;ve followed her career, and things like accusations of attempted lesbian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,998,1000,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-congress","category-elections","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}