The Basic Political Reality for Climate Legislation in 2009

...This is the tactical explanation of the Republican plan, but it also sheds light on GOP strategy. It seems that Congressional Republicans will continue to make a wedge issue out of climate change. This strategy crystallized in the summer with the debates over the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act and continued with the summer's drilling debates. Before the financial crisis, when gas and energy prices were rising through the roof, energy security was quickly becoming one of the defining issues of the political landscape. Obviously, the financial crisis and subsequent bailout were political game changers, but it seems that Republicans will stick with the strategy of co-opting the issue of energy independence while disregarding global warming.

This is, undoubtedly, an effective strategy the GOP....

Breakthrough: Public Opinion Cool on Global Warming

Obama and other leaders beware: these numbers would seem to point to a very uphill battle for any proposal framed centrally or primarily as a "climate bill," ... Perhaps more crucially, any proposal that can be painted as bad for the economy will also most certainly run right into a brick wall of public opposition.

The Whited Sepulchre: The Church Of Global Warming might be due for a membership drive

Watching the Church of Climate Change try to loot The Treasury for money to invent perpetual motion machines is going to be comical, now that most of the nation is colder than a well-digger's posterior. The sad thing is, they'll probably be succesful.