By Peter Tiede and Hans-Jörg Vehlewald
If he can, he likes to be pathetic. But when things get tight, Robert Habeck (53, Greens) likes to get fluffy, speaks like someone who wants to be hugged. If there is no love or consolation, then he bucks and gets crumpled.
Last night it was that time again – in the ARD daily topics. Moderator Ingo Zamperoni asked the Minister for Economy and Climate about family felt and Best Man Affair – and he swung himself up to the sacrificial lamb, made criticism of himself and his felt Secretary of State Patrick “Mr. heat pump” Graichen (51) a community of destiny. Victims of others, the opposition and the media.
Original sound Habeck: For several weeks he has been experiencing that with harshness and almost maliciousness, insinuations, insults and sometimes lies are being spread in order to achieve a goal: preventing the decarbonization of climate protection in the heat sector.”
Robert Habeck – the knight of the heat pump!
Incidentally, the Zamperoni question was about the best man affair. State Secretary Patrick Graichen sat in the recruitment process for a top job on the selection committee, his fat buddy and best man was the applicant who sat across from him. This has nothing to do with climate rescue and heat pumps. But Habeck built a group of wagons: Anyone who attacks me or my Graichen attacks us all and is – you can’t go under that – against climate protection.
And because he was just on a run, Habeck went one better: “I’m not willing to sacrifice people.”
No human sacrifices at Habeck! gosh! Germany went to bed relaxed!
Habeck has been tinkering all day with the legend of himself as the protector of his workforce from the Ministry of Economics. Before the Habeck interview, there was a contribution in the daily topics in which the minister said this after the Bundestag debate on the Green Felt: “In the debate of the last few days and weeks (the entire Ministry of Economic Affairs has been insulted).”
Habeck makes himself the fighter of the lobbyists
Insulted? All! Because you ask what the minister and his secretaries of state by marriage and the network of a US lobbyist are up to? The minister takes his house hostage – up to the porter. Only to then stand protectively in front of them: they are all in the same boat – his.
Continue in the Habeck text. He describes who is attacking his green wagon castle like this: fossil zombies! The minister: “The opposition has decided to fight for oil and gas heating.”
Mind you, it’s about felt. But Habeck acts as if he were already standing at the stake of climate deniers: GroKo has done nothing to achieve its goal of making Germany climate-neutral by 2045. But HE, the Green Knight: “I’ll do something for it.”
Habeck fights against the lobby:“The fact that no more gas is burned in Germany’s houses is a huge business area…” He whispers: I, Robert Habeck, against THE gas and oil lobby!
And then he makes it clear for whom he nobly falls to the sword – his ministry: “I want to protect myself in front of my colleagues. They do more for Germany than many who throw accusations at them.”
Wagenburg closed, opponents marked: critics from the opposition, traffic lights and the media. Anyone who still shoots now accepts innocent victims.
PS: Anyone who criticizes this text sins against the freedom of the press or the world climate according to this Habeck logic.