{"id":16763,"date":"2013-05-29T06:43:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=16763"},"modified":"2013-05-29T06:43:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:43:12","slug":"michele-bachmann-will-not-run-for-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/29\/michele-bachmann-will-not-run-for-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Michele Bachmann Will Not Run For Re-Election (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michele Bachmann is currently serving her last term and will not seek re-election.<\/p>\n<p>She claims to have suddenly grown the opinion that there should be term limits on Representatives in the House, but that is not very likely the reason.  It could be that she is behind in the polls, and it could have something to do with the impending criminal and ethics investigations.  If it the latter, perhaps we should be expecting some news in the near future regarding these investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Either way,<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SR5k63cuC08?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Maybe she plans to run for Senator against Al Franken?<\/p>\n<p>OH please, please, please, let it be so!<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Here&#8217;s Michele Bachmann&#8217;s YouTub video explaining how wonderful she is and stating that she WILL run for public office if she decides it is necessary for her to save the United States of America from itself. She also states that it is necessary for her to save the United States of America from itself, so do indeed expect her to run:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Q-nV4AGV50I?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michele Bachmann is currently serving her last term and will not seek re-election. She claims to have suddenly grown the opinion that there should be term limits on Representatives in the House, but that is not very likely the reason. It could be that she is behind in the polls, and it could have something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/29\/michele-bachmann-will-not-run-for-re-election\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michele Bachmann Will Not Run For Re-Election (Updated)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3677,622],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/57855-Michele_Bachmann_04.jpg?fit=500%2C476&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4mn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}