BEING A TOP PRIORITY OF THE UR...:

Obama Retreats From Goal of Cap-Trade Bill (ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON, 2/03/10, WSJ)

President Barack Obama said for the first time Tuesday that legislation that would require industries to pay for emissions of greenhouse gases may need to be separated from a more popular "green jobs" bill in the Senate, a maneuver that could kill what once had been one of the administration's top policy priorities. [...]

Isolating the cap-and-trade proposal would make it easier for Democrats who oppose putting a price on greenhouse-gas emissions to set that part of the climate bill aside, and vote for the more popular jobs incentives now contained in the wide-ranging measure.

...is like being a drummer for Spinal Tap.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 3, 2010 6:59 AM