The reason we’re not going to get a comprehensive climate / energy bill is because no one among my environmentalist acquaintances think that they will have to make sacrifices.  Everyone of my friends who want climate legislation drive 4 by 4 SUVs, heat with wood fireplaces and take two or three flights yearly.  They think big business will take the hit, but that their life styles will continued as before.  I know that there are many environmentalist who bicycle whenever possible, drive small cars when necessary, preferably hybrids, turn off home air conditioning and cut out optional flying as I do.  Just complaining that it is someone else fault without equally rigorous self evaluation is childish.

Please!  As if Obama, the Democrats, or the other right-wing faction of the Business Party had any intention of fighting the very hands that feed them campaign contributions!  The politicians need time in order to make sure all the right corporations are exempted, and all the pork they want gets put into this bill to, if history is any guide, be sure to that real reform never takes place.  We’ve seen that this administration is all talk, and that when it finally comes down to taking action, when it comes to prosecuting the past administration for war crimes, ending torture and kidnapping, ending wars of choice, rejecting corporate-friendly Cabinet and judicial picks, holding Wall Street accountable, supporting single-payer, restoring the Bill of Rights, Obama’s administration is a total failure, a major disappointment, and a corporate wet dream.