Cap ‘N Trade

There has been much hoo ha-ing about the American Clean Energy and Security Act recently passed by our esteemed House of Representatives.  But as far as I can tell, no one really knows what it’s all about.  In fact, the GOP minority leader (who was on his way back to the Rayburn building from a meeting of the Flat Earth Society) referred to the nine hundred page document as, “a pile of s**t”.  Which I guess, could describe much of the legislation that’s been produced over the last two hundred years.  That a republican would publicly disdain legislation Obama wanted is not surprising, and it’s not even surprising that he couldn’t explain what was in it, but it...