{"id":187355,"date":"2013-03-28T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/28\/a-solution-to-our-energy-needs-forever\/"},"modified":"2013-03-28T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T02:19:00","slug":"a-solution-to-our-energy-needs-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/28\/a-solution-to-our-energy-needs-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"A Solution to Our Energy Needs Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just attach generators to <a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/28\/once-more-through-the-revolving-door-for-justices-breuer\/\">the Obama administration&#8217;s revolving door<\/a>.  Problem solved:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Coming off a grueling four-year stint at the Justice Department, Lanny A. Breuer is poised to make a soft landing in the private sector.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Covington &amp; Burling, a prominent law firm, plans to announce on Thursday that Mr. Breuer will be its vice chairman. The firm created the role especially for Mr. Breuer, a Washington insider who most recently led the Justice Department\u2019s investigation into the financial crisis.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">For Mr. Breuer, who will now shift to defending large corporations, Covington is familiar turf. He previously spent nearly two decades there.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe\u2019re proud to welcome him home,\u201d said Timothy C. Hester, Covington\u2019s chairman<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>FWIW, I think that &#8220;welcome&#8221; is spelled &#8220;<b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Ka-Ching<\/span><\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He did his job, and now Mr. Breuer is going to be paid for, &#8220;<i>not bringing cases against the banks and executives at the center of the crisis<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just attach generators to the Obama administration&#8217;s revolving door. Problem solved: Coming off a grueling four-year stint at the Justice Department, Lanny A. Breuer is poised to make a soft landing in the private sector.Covington &amp; Burling, a prominent law firm, plans to announce on Thursday that Mr. Breuer will be its vice chairman. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,1004,978,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-finance","category-politics","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}