{"id":23578,"date":"2011-11-09T13:37:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T20:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/whod-have-thought-bachmann-was-so-progressive.html"},"modified":"2011-11-09T21:38:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T04:38:03","slug":"whod-have-thought-bachmann-was-so-progressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/whod-have-thought-bachmann-was-so-progressive.html","title":{"rendered":"Who&#39;d have thought Bachmann was so &#8230; progressive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, with that whole <i>If anyone will not work, neither should he eat<\/i> thing? Since there&#39;s a logical corollary that goes with that:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Because if Bachmann was arguing that every American capable of working has a responsibility to work without also arguing that every such person has the right to a job \u2014 a guaranteed right to a job, right now \u2014 then that would make her a monstrous, illogical imbecile intent on cruelly punishing the jobless with contradictory obligations and prohibitions. That would make her a horrible, ignorant, despicable failure of a human being.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>#ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2011\/11\/09\/michele-bachmann-calls-for-guaranteed-employment-for-all\/'>slacktivist  \u00bb Michele Bachmann calls for guaranteed employment for all<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTweet. Rights come with responsibilities, my conservative friends are always saying. And they&#39;re right about that. And because they&#39;re right about that, then they must also agree with me that &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, with that whole If anyone will not work, neither should he eat thing? Since there&#39;s a logical corollary that goes with that: &quot;Because if Bachmann was arguing that every American capable of working has a responsibility to work without also arguing that every such person has the right to a job \u2014 a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/whod-have-thought-bachmann-was-so-progressive.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who&#39;d have thought Bachmann was so &#8230; progressive?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,77,27],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economy","category-religion","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25064,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/one-crazy-out-of-the-race.html","url_meta":{"origin":23578,"position":0},"title":"One crazy out of the race","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Jan-12 9:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"Bachmann is out (she's \"suspending,\" but that just means she can still raise money to pay off her debt). 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