{"id":7828,"date":"2010-11-19T15:52:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T20:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7828"},"modified":"2010-11-19T15:52:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T20:52:44","slug":"michele-bachmann%e2%80%99s-fate-shows-pitfalls-of-being-an-outsider-inside-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7828\/michele-bachmann%e2%80%99s-fate-shows-pitfalls-of-being-an-outsider-inside-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Michele Bachmann\u2019s Fate Shows Pitfalls of Being an Outsider Inside Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Michele Bachmann\u2019s (R-MN) recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/11\/19\/AR2010111902931.html\" target=\"_blank\">failure to win the chairmanship of the House Republican Conference Committee<\/a> is an important reminder for the wave of new GOP congress members coming into office in January.\u00a0 If you spend more time courting a movement outside Congress, don\u2019t be surprised when those inside it promote from within.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the case of Michele Bachmann.\u00a0 Widely considered the highest profile Tea Party leader inside the federal government, Bachmann\u2019s loss to Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) for the chairmanship is linked to her cultivated outsider status.\u00a0 She may be brilliant with red meat speeches and raising money, but she is presumed to be light on policy details.\u00a0 Moreover, the time she spent promoting the Tea Party were moments taken away from building the kinds of relationships with fellow members that lead to endorsements and favorable chairmanship votes.\u00a0 That, more than anything else, explains the reason Bachmann lost to Hensarling.<\/p>\n<p>But it isn\u2019t just Bachmann that needs to consider how to parlay her grassroots support into actual results as a member of Congress.\u00a0 The GOP leadership too needs to weigh carefully how to grow her brand while enhancing its own appeal to Tea Party voters.\u00a0 Perhaps the latter consideration is what led House Republicans to create <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/thenote\/2010\/11\/house-gop-to-seat-freshman-lawmaker-at-leadership-table.html\" target=\"_blank\">a new leadership position for the incoming class<\/a>.\u00a0 Ironically, the Republican congress member most deserving of representing the views of this Tea Party-flavored class is Bachmann herself.\u00a0 Too bad the position is only open to freshmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Michele Bachmann\u2019s (R-MN) recent failure to win the chairmanship of the House Republican Conference Committee is an important reminder for the wave of new GOP congress members coming into office in January.\u00a0 If you spend more time courting a movement outside Congress, don\u2019t be surprised when those inside it promote from within. Such is [&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":[790,2102,2066,28],"class_list":["post-7828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-house-republicans","tag-jeb-hensarling","tag-michele-bachmann","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828","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=7828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7829,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions\/7829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}