{"id":501,"date":"2005-03-15T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-15T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=501"},"modified":"2006-10-08T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T11:39:21","slug":"519-of-losing-the-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"[499] Of losing the battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry offers to strip the drilling proposal from the budget (<a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/apwashington_story.asp?category=1153&#038;slug=Arctic%20Refuge\">via<\/a>). I don&#8217;t think Kerry&#8217;s suggestion will work, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans are shrewd to attach the drilling proposal along with the budget. Because of such arrangement, it would only take a simple majority to pass the drilling bill. At the same time, the Republicans are controlling the House.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/althippo.blogspot.com\/2005_03_13_althippo_archive.html#111091284239062011\">Alternative Hippopotamus<\/a> aptly describes the situation for ANWR. The real quote however is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca and the Germans have outlawed miracles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The hippo is right; it would take a miracle to prevent drilling and time to resist is running out. ANWR&#8217;s only hope to be left undisturbed is the word no from rational Republican representatives that understand that, as John Kerry has stated during the 2004 Presidential campaign, we can&#8217;t drill our way out of this energy crisis.<\/p>\n<p>After more than two decades of fighting, it all comes down to here and now. And the future looks grim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry offers to strip the drilling proposal from the budget (via). I don&#8217;t think Kerry&#8217;s suggestion will work, unfortunately. The Republicans are shrewd to attach the drilling proposal along with the budget. Because of such arrangement, it would only take a simple majority to pass the drilling bill. At the same time, the Republicans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-politics-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}