{"id":11736,"date":"2011-10-21T14:35:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T18:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11736"},"modified":"2011-10-21T14:35:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T18:35:40","slug":"bachmann-in-the-lions-den","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11736\/bachmann-in-the-lions-den\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann in the Lion&#8217;s Den"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However her presidential campaign turns out, Michele Bachmann deserves continued credit for speaking the truth no matter what the forum.\u00a0 During question time after a speech in the liberal haven of San Francisco, the conservative firebrand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/news\/ci_19158464?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">made these distinctions<\/a> between the \u201coccupy\u201d movement and the Tea Party:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The tea party picks up its trash after it has a demonstration, so there&#8217;s a difference,&#8221; the Minnesota congresswoman quipped during a question-and-answer period after her speech to the Commonwealth Club of California.<\/p>\n<p>On a more serious note, the two movements have &#8220;two different views of how to solve the problems&#8221; our nation faces, she said. Occupy activists believe in &#8220;government-directed solutions based on temporary gimmicks,&#8221; she said, while tea partyers believe in &#8220;permanent solutions driven from the private sector.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen, sister.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: <em>San Jose Mercury-News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However her presidential campaign turns out, Michele Bachmann deserves continued credit for speaking the truth no matter what the forum.\u00a0 During question time after a speech in the liberal haven of San Francisco, the conservative firebrand made these distinctions between the \u201coccupy\u201d movement and the Tea Party: &#8220;The tea party picks up its trash after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[928,739,2066,3118,28],"class_list":["post-11736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-conservative","tag-liberal","tag-michele-bachmann","tag-occupy-wall-street","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11739,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11736\/revisions\/11739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}