From the Wall Street Journal, Cap and Tax Delay
Health care isn’t the only destructive White House priority running into trouble in the Senate. Yesterday, Barbara Boxer (Marin County) and John Kerry (Nantucket) announced that Democrats won’t release their cap-and-trade bill next week as scheduled after all, but will instead postpone it for up to a month. It’s far too early to say that carbon tax and cap is dead, but mark this delay down as one more sign that it remains well short of 60 votes.
Ms. Boxer and Mr. Kerry insist that all systems are still go, though it didn’t sound that way when the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, Dick Durbin of Illinois, told Bloomberg TV last month that “I have to be honest with you. As a whip, I count the votes and I count the days in the week, and I look at this rule book in the Senate and think this is not an easy lift. I think we can still do it, but it’s a question of timing.”
More at the link.