{"id":5796,"date":"2011-12-31T12:01:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T18:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2011-12-31T12:01:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T18:01:51","slug":"oops-the-top-ten-gop-flops-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/31\/oops-the-top-ten-gop-flops-of-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops&#8230; The Top Ten GOP FLOPS of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PMLlNySviZI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>OK, that&#8217;s all funny and everything, but I&#8217;m very disappointed in both the producers of this piece and in some of the attitudes associated with it. <\/p>\n<p>First, where the hell is Michele Bachmann?  Michele produces a &#8220;Greatest Moment&#8221; every time she opens her mouth!  Has Bachmann&#8217;s ever flowing river of crazy become the new normal, so that it isn&#8217;t even noticed by political satirists anymore?  That, my friends, is exactly what I warned about when she first started running.  Well, I said that mainly in my own head, but I&#8217;m sure you figured it out too.  Bedtime for Bonzo isn&#8217;t just a think you say when it is bed time.  Its a movie starring the man considered by the majority of Americans to be the greatest president who ever existed in the United States of America.  <\/p>\n<p>The second thing that is somewhat disappointing is, of course, the polarization.  The woman commenting on Gingrich&#8217;s child labor remark expressed my feelings exactly.  Gingrich&#8217;s suggestion to enslave the poor children of the inner cities to clean toilets is a bad idea, but one that can be transformed into a good one.  A youth jobs program is a great idea.  They used to be more common, and have often been part economic stimulus. But not like Gingrich says.  More like the lady in the video says.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, since Michele Bachmann was left out of this video, here&#8217;s a makeup video, with Sarah Palin:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vJM24rR4f4c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I love the Boston Accent on Paul.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[366,341,342,284,883,438,343,346,347,893,306,309,311,313,326],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1vu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796"}],"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=5796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}