{"id":80179,"date":"2021-12-01T05:11:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T11:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80179"},"modified":"2021-12-01T05:11:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T11:11:17","slug":"wag-the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80179","title":{"rendered":"Wag The Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Fernandez at The Belmont Club<\/a> asks whether the Lesko Brandon administration is strolling into our next quagmire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We canceled pipelines and oil leases at home, to signal our virtue on climate change. The price of gas at the pump, and natural gas for home heating, is going up. We’ve called on Saudi Arabia to pump more oil for us but we’ve also removed sanctions on Iran, which is funding Houthis in Yemen, who are attacking Saudi oilfields. The US could back the Saudis with arms sales or troops so they could keep pumping the oil we want, except Progressives insist the Saudis are repressing the Yemenis so we must not help them. Can “no blood for oil” be far behind?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We’ve caused a world-wide oil shortage and are about to stumble into another war in the Middle East with conflicting policy goals and no clear mission. But all the Left wants to talk about is Kyle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If it weren\u2019t for gullible, low information voters, the Democrats will be pulling somewhere below the libertarians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Richard Fernandez at The Belmont Club asks whether the Lesko Brandon administration is strolling into our next quagmire. We canceled pipelines and oil leases at home, to signal our virtue on climate change. The price of gas at the pump, and natural gas for home heating, is going up. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,131,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-war-and-peace","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80180,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80179\/revisions\/80180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}