{"id":188823,"date":"2010-07-22T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/22\/dems-cave-on-anthropogenic-climate-change-bill\/"},"modified":"2010-07-22T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T01:47:00","slug":"dems-cave-on-anthropogenic-climate-change-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/22\/dems-cave-on-anthropogenic-climate-change-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Cave on Anthropogenic Climate Change Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that is no surprise that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/07\/22\/AR2010072203614.html\">John Kerry and Harry Reid have given up on climate change legislation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only bright side is that it was a pretty sucky bill which would have handed the Vampire Squid<sup>*<\/sup> and Their Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> a new market mechanism to rape.<\/p>\n<p>If Obama has any balls, and he doesn&#8217;t, he will get moving to have the EPA draw up regulations, ones with <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">real teeth<\/span> make the coal, oil, and gas state Congressmen sweat.<\/p>\n<p>In order to capture legislators hearts and minds on this issue, you need to get them by the balls first.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Alas, I cannot claim credit  for the bon mot describing Goldman Sachs as a, &#8220;great vampire squid  wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood  funnel into anything that smells like money.&#8221;  This was coined by the  great Matt Taibbi, in his article on the <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;font-size:78%;\" >massive criminal conspiracy<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"> investment firm, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/28816321\/the_great_american_bubble_machine\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:78%;\" >The Great American Bubble Machine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that is no surprise that John Kerry and Harry Reid have given up on climate change legislation. The only bright side is that it was a pretty sucky bill which would have handed the Vampire Squid* and Their Evil Minions\u2122 a new market mechanism to rape. If Obama has any balls, and he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1054,1136,998,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropogenic-climate-change","category-breaking-news","category-congress","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188823"}],"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=188823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}