{"id":1363,"date":"2010-03-31T11:33:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T16:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2010-03-31T21:20:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T02:20:15","slug":"jesus-giveth-jesus-bargaineth-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/jesus-giveth-jesus-bargaineth-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Giveth, Jesus Bargaineth Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just so His disciples don&#8217;t get too carried away in their euphoria over the health care &#8220;victory,&#8221; Jesus H. Obama announces H<a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"NYT: &quot;Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for First Time&quot; by John M. Broder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/31\/science\/earth\/31energy.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">is plan to keep the flock on the gluttonous energy path<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Drill, Jesus, Drill!<\/p>\n<p>And true to form, this give away to the carbon interests is His opening gambit even before negotiations have begun on carbon emissions limits. Yeah, that&#8217;s it, give away every bargaining chip even before the bargaining has begun!<\/p>\n<p>This lead up to the carbon cap talks is shaping up to be a replay of the health care debate: Just like His taking single payer off the table even before getting to the table; or handing over the public option &#8216;chips&#8217; to the hospital lobby before serious negotiations even begin. Cede ground til there&#8217;s nothing much left to cede.<\/p>\n<p>Then declare victory. Then, watch your followers, at the receiving end of an abusive relationship, be thankful for their crumbs. He really loves me. I know He does. Even when He abuses me.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and by the way, is this really the sort of bargaining that the really smart people at Columbia teach their law students? Remind me to <em>not<\/em> hire an Ivy League lawyer next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The co-dependent, abusive relationship between Jesus H. Obama and His flock continues&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20,91],"tags":[752,751,753,213,755,165,754],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-greenwashers-greenwashing","category-perspectives-on-american-gluttony","tag-abusive-relationship","tag-co-dependency","tag-energy-gluttony","tag-jesus-h-obama","tag-john-m-broder","tag-new-york-times","tag-oil-drilling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}