Steven F. Hayward on Obama's brown agenda: "it’s not just in national security policy where Obama has turned out to be the third term for George W. Bush. It turns out to be the case with climate policy as well"

Cover Story - American Review - Global Perspectives on America

The basic problem for Obama and the climate campaign is that they are pushing uphill against public opinion as well as the basic economics of energy.
...f you’d told environmentalists on election day in 2008 that more than four years later there would be no successor treaty to Kyoto, that a Democratic congress would not have enacted any meaningful — or even symbolic — climate legislation, and that domestic oil production would soar (even after a catastrophic offshore oil spill), they’d have suspected that Dick Cheney had stolen (another!) election. Yet environmentalists, who have tended to be the cheap dates of the Democratic Party for several decades, continue to plight their troth. Carl Pope, the recently retired executive director of the Sierra Club, has called Obama “the best environmental president since Theodore Roosevelt”. Yet if you look at the matter honestly, you’d have to conclude that it’s not just in national security policy where Obama has turned out to be the third term for George W. Bush. It turns out to be the case with climate policy as well.