The Gore Effect Lives On! - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Spring may have sprung and Al Gore came and went this past week with nary a winter storm on Capitol Hill, but it appears that his chilling effect endures. One story earlier today noted how Dems are backing away from cap-and-trade, as certain among us predicted while chiding the thumb-suckers to stop quivering already and fight. Now, on the heels of Gore's Friday sermon, here's the "Breaking News" from Greenwire:

CLIMATE: Energy and Commerce panel's markup of global warming, energy bill postponed

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Ah, to be a fly on the wall in those "productive discussions." I'm guessing they're a lot like the ones that went on during the BTU debacle in 1993 — which I notice even commentators who were in short pants at the time are now citing as the operative parallel, even cribbing a particular notice that it is now a noun and a verb (as in "get BTU'd"). Now, if only a certain senator who asked me what BTU meant would follow . . .