Post to Sen. Murkowski: Please Play Along for Sake of Nation

The Washington Post, in an editorial published today, chastised Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, for efforts aimed at derailing EPA steps to regulate GHG emissions by adding an amendment to legislation that would raise the federal debt limit. The New York Times published a similar comment Jan. 19.

While the Post said it favored legislation to limit GHGs and urged the Senate to pass such a bill, "that effort is already fraught. The best policies -- a simple carbon tax or cap-and-trade scheme -- aren't gaining steam. Instead, the House passed a leviathan bill, and the Senate is stalled. Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) indicated last week that he fears Ms. Murkowski's measure will diminish chances of producing a bipartisan climate-change bill. Ms. Murkowski would do better by helping end the Senate's paralysis than by seeking to condemn the rest of government to the same inaction."