{"id":8404,"date":"2011-01-22T18:13:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T23:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8404"},"modified":"2011-01-22T18:13:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T23:13:22","slug":"bachmann-continues-independent-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8404\/bachmann-continues-independent-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann Continues Independent Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Other than her congressional district, Rep. Michele Bachmann\u2019s (R-MN) true base of support comes from the millions of Tea Party members currently providing the grassroots dynamism of the Republican Party.\u00a0 Bachmann raised so much money last cycle<\/a> that some pundits think she\u2019s running for U.S. Senate or even president<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The announcement that Bachmann is delivering an unofficial Republican response<\/a> to President Barack Obama\u2019s State of the Union Address will heighten that speculation.\u00a0 It will also anger the House Republican leadership that continues to pass over Bachmann.\u00a0 First, it voted her down in a bid to be the new chair of the House GOP Conference Chair.\u00a0 Bachmann pressed ahead with her own Tea Party caucus, raising even more money.\u00a0 Now, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is slated to give the official Republican response<\/a>, but Bachmann will deliver her own via the Tea Party Express website.<\/p>\n

There may not be a way for Bachmann to capitalize on her media stardom, unless she continues to go her own way.\u00a0 This will widen the gap between her and House GOP leadership, but if she wins a Senate seat or the presidency in 2012, the onus will be on leadership to make nice with her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Other than her congressional district, Rep. Michele Bachmann\u2019s (R-MN) true base of support comes from the millions of Tea Party members currently providing the grassroots dynamism of the Republican Party.\u00a0 Bachmann raised so much money last cycle that some pundits think she\u2019s running for U.S. Senate or even president. The announcement that Bachmann is delivering […]<\/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":[143,84,2154,2102,2066,802,334,2312,28],"class_list":["post-8404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-house-gop","tag-jeb-hensarling","tag-michele-bachmann","tag-paul-ryan","tag-republican-party","tag-state-of-the-union-address","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404","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=8404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8405,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions\/8405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}