I thought we elected Barack Obama and Joe Biden last November and that we kind of endorsed their platform. But it looks a lot like we actually elected Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson, and that we can’t do a single thing that doesn’t have their permission. If we want to overcome this obstacle, we’re going to have to change the Senate rules or hope that we net a few new Senate seats in the 2010 midterms. I think Democrats are going to be discouraged by this farce, but I’d still ask them if they want to be led by Lieberman and Nelson or Obama and Biden. If the latter, they better get out and work to elect a few more Democratic senators. Yet, even if we do that, we’ll probably be bitching about Lincoln and Landrieu, or some other constellation of pains-in-the-asses. If we want meaningful climate change legislation, we’re going to need to change the Senate rules or use budget reconciliation or something, because this Congress, operating under these rules, is dysfunctional.

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