Cooler Heads Digest 23 July 2010 | GlobalWarming.org

[Myron Ebell] Passing the blame for the demise of cap-and-trade has already begun. The White House suggested that environmental pressure groups didn’t do enough. Environmental pressure groups suggested that President Obama and his Administration hadn’t done enough. Reid and Kerry blamed the Republicans. And so on. My own view is that reality got in the way. Cap-and-trade has been dead in the Senate since the House passed the Waxman-Markey bill July [actually June] 26, 2009. Several Democratic and Republican Senators decided they couldn’t vote for it after they saw the overwhelmingly negative public response. The Senate turned to healthcare reform last July instead of taking up Waxman-Markey because healthcare reform had much more public support.