What Theda Skocpol gets right about the cap-and-trade fight

[kgrandia]

The great cap-and-trade battles of 2009-10 were, for me, the culmination of an obsession that began in earnest around 2006, when Democrats re-took the House. You may recall the heady days of the 2007 Democratic primaries, when all three of the serious candidates for president — Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards — had competing cap-and-trade plans, as did the eventual GOP nominee, John McCain. Back then it seemed extremely important to hash out the fine policy details. It was virtually all I thought about, for years on end.

More: http://grist.org/climate-energy/what-theda-skocpol-gets-right-about-the-cap-and-trade-fight/

[bluestateguy]

1. I didn't support it

Seemed like a Wall Street trading scheme that was just asking for trouble.

[pscot]

2. And what we got in its place was nothing

Which is a guarantee of trouble like nothing we've ever seen before.