by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math
A bit of emergency filling-in here …:
Shorter Andrew Sullivan: The fact that Al Gore could not persuade the few petrostate Democrats to pass a BTU tax in 1993, or convince the Senate to ratify Kyoto in 1997, makes his call to action on global warming less credible.
We should obviously applaud Andrew Sullivan for his concerted efforts over the past two years to remain in the reality-based community. But the reality-based community also includes political reality, so until some Senate Republican(s)s step up to the plate on carbon taxes or fuel economy, and we can hammer out a compromise solution that includes … I don’t know, subsidies to clean coal? Massive wind-power projects across various Republican-held Congressional Districts? A “feebate” system for improving fuel economy? … policy engagement on global warming is a real suckers’ move.
