This seems pretty conclusive, although the writing has been on the wall almost since the House passed cap and trade. It was Obama's last great legislative triumph and Democratic House members went way out on a limb supporting their leader - even at the expense of jobs in their own states.It looks like the Senate is going to yank the ground out from underneath them, according to this piece in Bloomberg by Daniel Whitten and Simon Lomax:The U.S. Senate should abandon efforts to pass legislation curbing greenhouse-gas emissions this year and concentrate on a narrower bill to require use of renewable energy, four Democratic lawmakers say. "The problem of doing both of them together is that it becomes too big of a lift," Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas said in an interview last week. "I see the cap-and-trade being a real problem." The resistance by Lincoln and her Senate colleagues undercuts President Barack Obama's effort to win passage of legislation that would...(Read Full Post)