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And, speaking of the future, expect Obama to make a big, hard-sell pitch for cap-and-trade tonight as part of his speech. In doing so, he will link the Democrats to the second unpopular, economy-busting bill of the 111th Congress, and this one just before the midterms. The oil spill may be a disaster in the Gulf, but cap-and-trade is an economic disaster for the Midwest, the Coal Belt, the Rust Belt, and unpopular everywhere inside the two coasts. Right now, though, Obama seems determined to save himself through misdirection, and he’ll pitch this as a bill that could have saved us from Deepwater Horizon, even though it has nothing to do with the already-established drilling in the Gulf.