{"id":7769,"date":"2010-04-16T12:46:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T12:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/04\/16\/bachmann-teabaggers-remain-ann\/"},"modified":"2010-04-16T12:46:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T12:46:54","slug":"bachmann-teabaggers-remain-ann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/bachmann-teabaggers-remain-ann\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann, Teabaggers, remain annoying, stupid."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/article\/20100412\/NEWS01\/104120032\/1009\/Bachmann-s-health-care-claims-falter\"><strong>Bachmann&#8217;s health care claims falter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bachmann has said the new health care act will unleash a wave of new federal funding for abortion &#8230; contrary to Bachmann&#8217;s claims, the law doesn&#8217;t fundamentally change federal policy on abortion &#8230;a Bachmann spokesman has backed off her prediction&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/90800134.html\"><strong>Tea Party rally cost taxpayers nearly $14k<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Bachmann solidified her place in the national spotlight &#8230; when she gathered thousands of Tea Party activists in front of the U.S. Capitol for a &#8220;House Call on Washington,&#8221; to stop the Democrats&#8217; health care bill&#8230;.. Months later, official expense reports show that the boisterous, 10,000-person rally to rein in big government and stop runaway spending cost U.S. taxpayers nearly $14,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/mikethemadbiologist\/2010\/04\/the_april_14th_tea_party_rally.php\"><strong>The April 14th Tea Party Rally: A Cup of Rather Weak Tea<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The rally was truly weird&#8211;and not just due to the stated purpose. There were probably as many people opposed to the Tea Buggers as there were Tea Buggers. We anti-Tea Buggers were ready to roll&#8230;and it was really dull. Seriously, break out the Barcaloungers&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bachmann&#8217;s health care claims falter Bachmann has said the new health care act will unleash a wave of new federal funding for abortion &#8230; contrary to Bachmann&#8217;s claims, the law doesn&#8217;t fundamentally change federal policy on abortion &#8230;a Bachmann spokesman has backed off her prediction&#8230; Tea Party rally cost taxpayers nearly $14k &#8230;Bachmann solidified her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/bachmann-teabaggers-remain-ann\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bachmann, Teabaggers, remain annoying, stupid.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-21j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769"}],"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=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}