Hot Air » Waxman: I’ll use a conference committee to get cap-and-trade

That’s precisely why Republicans need to remain vigilant regarding energy policy. Any deal conducted in the Senate between the GOP and Reid will get undone in conference. Waxman’s practically putting that on a billboard in Washington, and Republican leadership had better pay attention.

Obama Running Out of Green-Economy Exemplars - Planet Gore - National Review Online

So the Brits and Kiwis aren’t having any more luck than the Spaniards, Danes, or Germans — but that didn’t stop Obama from at least trying to claim green-economy successes in those three countries, so why should it in these two new cases? We’ve also seen Italy’s carbon scheme exposed as a debacle, and a Labor government teeter and then fall in Australia after the mere threat of imposing such a scheme.

It’s possible, then, that our president has simply run out of countries to point to. Which means that soon enough we’ll be back to that “we have to be the world leader” bit — which translates into “the plot failed everywhere else.”