Failure of climate legislation in the other Washington

[Rob Olason]

Paul Krugman conducts a post-mortem on the climate legislation failure and finds the usual culprits that govern this land: greed and cowardice.

It's  a cold comfort to know that all our important national political decisions always favor the concerns of the multinational corporate donors first, and the actual citizens only as an afterthought.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/opinion/26krugman.html?_r=1