{"id":9337,"date":"2013-04-03T02:25:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T06:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=9337"},"modified":"2013-04-03T16:22:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T20:22:40","slug":"gop-rebranding-bachmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/04\/03\/gop-rebranding-bachmann\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebootus Interruptus (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As long as the GOP&#8217;s packed with <a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/article\/index\/242081\/the-michele-bachmann-sideshow-is-hurting-the-gop\">headline-grabbing wingnuts like Michele Bachmann<\/a>, the Republican reboot&#8217;s going nowhere:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAttention, GOP: Your rebranding attempts are being undercut by a segment of your party getting big headlines and lots of airtime \u2014 a segment symbolized by the Minnesota quote-machine, Rep. Michele Bachmann. Due to a series of gaffes, she is again on the receiving end of criticism, including from Fox News powerhouse Bill O&#8217;Reilly. The congresswoman is also, as reported by The Daily Beast&#8217;s John Avlon, &#8220;embroiled in a litany of legal proceedings related to her rolling disaster of a presidential campaign \u2014 including an Office of Congressional Ethics investigation into campaign improprieties.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;She speaks in apocalyptic terms about President Obama and Democrats. She has never met an inaccuracy or exaggeration she didn&#8217;t like in her thirst to negatively define the other side. (Fact-checkers following her speeches may soon have to seek workmen&#8217;s compensation.)&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rebootus Interruptus (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The GOP wants to reboot&#8212;<br \/>\nSwitch its image from crazy old coot<br \/>\nTo something appealing,<br \/>\nMore meanness-concealing&#8212;<br \/>\nA change that its zealots refute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as the GOP&#8217;s packed with headline-grabbing wingnuts like Michele Bachmann, the Republican reboot&#8217;s going nowhere: Attention, GOP: Your rebranding attempts are being undercut by a segment of your party getting big headlines and lots of airtime \u2014 a segment symbolized by the Minnesota quote-machine, Rep. Michele Bachmann. Due to a series of gaffes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,183,6,7,3,9,69],"tags":[701,278,2763,1283,1655,1894,841,2337,682,2784],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9337"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9352,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions\/9352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}