Obama's speech: There's a pipe spewing a gazillion gobs of oil into the gulf, so let's build more windmills | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times

But suddenly – watch the left hand over here because he wants you to not focus on how long it’s taken him to take charge of the spill – he thinks there’s a compelling need to spend a motorcade full of moola that the federal government doesn’t have in order to change the country’s energy habits.

And we've gotta start that right now because of an underwater leaking pipe 40 miles off Louisiana that we haven't plugged and don't really understand how it broke in the first place. So let's do the electric car thing and build more windmills now.

Liberal group puts pressure on Graham on climate change bill - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

A faith-based liberal group is spending six figures on a new ad to pressure Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on climate change.

Deadly silence on carbon caps - POLITICO.com Print View

A former Senate aide said there was much to be read into Obama's silence on carbon caps.

"The fact he had a phrase or sentence for each of the alternatives and clearly didn't have the sentence that would have been a carbon cap made it clear he's not making a push this summer for a Senate climate bill," the former aide said.

Obama's remarks struck perhaps the biggest blow to Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.)... But even in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, moderate Democrats and most Republicans don't want to make the connection between the spill and a climate bill or start a floor debate on global warming.

“I don’t think actually it is linked,” said Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.). “I think they are two totally difficult huge problems of public policy to be worked out. It’s simpler to say one hangs on the other or one pushes the other another 30 yards down the field. I don’t think it’s true.”

Obama’s Speech: Two Parts, Both Bad - Steve Hayward - The Corner on National Review Online

And he didn’t wear a windmill beanie, or whatever would be the global-warming equivalent of Carter’s infamous cardigan sweater.
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The “new energy” part of the speech was more problematic. Obama practically choked on mentioning “climate,” and assiduously avoided mentioning cap-and-trade or placing an explicit price on carbon energy. Instead we got more energy happy-talk...