As I Repeatedly Say: All That the Money the Coal Barons of Eastern Kentucky Gave and That Mitch McConnell Took…

…in exchange for blocking Obama’s attempt to get John McCain’s cap-and-trade environmental plan through congress actually did was to change Barack Obama’s negotiating partner.

Instead of, on global-warming policy, negotiating with Mitch McConnell, he is now negotiating with Anthony Kennedy.

What was the point? Certainly the coal barons would rather have had a sensible cap-and-trade policy that gave them tradeable permits as valuable assets than be under the EPA’s command-and-control regulatory hammer. Yet this was predictable from the Supreme Court’s 2008 (and earlier!) line of thinking…

Yet more things I simply do not understand…