Another pathetic day in the U.S. Senate

Got that? Congress shouldn't focus on the controversial task of regulating CO2. Instead, it should turn to blocking EPA's ability to regulate CO2 ... so that Congress, instead of a regulatory agency, can regulate CO2. But not yet.

It's incoherent on its face, just a transparent bid to protect his campaign contributors in the coal industry.

And he's not alone. I haven't seen a single "centrist" Dem senator make a substantive case for why we shouldn't cap carbon now. They all want to avoid it because it's "controversial" or "doesn't have the votes." They're all acting like pundits, commenting on Senate realities as though they are not creating those realities. It's absurd. If you think we should cap carbon, say so. If not, say so. Nobody needs another cut-rate pundit echoing conventional wisdom back and forth in an endless Beltway circle jerk.

Honestly, I'm running out of ways to express my contempt for the U.S. Senate. I can't wait until this bill is done with so I can think about something else for a while, like decent human beings who recognize moral obligations to their descendents for instance.