{"id":5995,"date":"2010-05-01T11:16:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T18:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=5995"},"modified":"2010-05-01T12:21:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T19:21:01","slug":"your-stinker-of-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/05\/01\/your-stinker-of-the-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Politics and Your Stinker of the Moment."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey!\u00c2\u00a0 Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/04\/04\/triangulation-in-the-obama-era\/\">this<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 From about the time where we see the now\u00c2\u00a0ironic Obama quote about, you know, &#8220;It turns out off-shore drilling is safe&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Here he found that nice little <em>Centrist<\/em> position, what with the Republicans having found the new right-wing position of\u00c2\u00a0 no concern &#8220;<em>Drill, Baby, Drill<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Remember how Mark Ambinder put it all, into political anaylsis, jump completely away from policy analysis?<\/p>\n<p><em>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s high-reward, low-risk; environmentalists will complain, but then again, environmentalists complain.\u00c2\u00a0 Aside from the substance, which is beyond our ken, the politics of this move is easy:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; The environmentalists complaining having\u00c2\u00a0mooted effect on policy coming, in some part, from everything being analyzed in this manner.<\/p>\n<p>How does one define &#8220;low risk&#8221; anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Also, why can&#8217;t we carve out something to tack to from our invented &#8220;right&#8221; that&#8217;d lead in a different direction &#8212; maybe somewhere around George W Bush warning that &#8220;America is addicted to Oil.&#8221;?<br \/>\nThen maybe some dead weight in the climage bill (wait a session) can be cleared out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey!\u00c2\u00a0 Remember this?\u00c2\u00a0 From about the time where we see the now\u00c2\u00a0ironic Obama quote about, you know, &#8220;It turns out off-shore drilling is safe&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Here he found that nice little Centrist position, what with the Republicans having found the new right-wing position of\u00c2\u00a0 no concern &#8220;Drill, Baby, Drill&#8220;. Remember how Mark Ambinder put it all, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5995"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6000,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995\/revisions\/6000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}