Reflection on: As the World Burns

The main point I took from this article was how hard it seems to be to get a major law written about climate change. "The Three Amigos" or Kerry, Lieberman, and Graham, had spent 7 long months writing a bill that was supposed to transform the approach on energy and climate change. They had come farther than any other climate-change legislation had come before. They had come so close to making it a reality, President Obama had pulled a couple rugs out from under them when he gave away the $54 billion in new nuclear loan guarantees and also when he promised to open up areas in the Atlantic East coast, the Arctic Ocean and in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling. Those were going to be used as leverage for those three against the Rebuplicans to get them on board with the bill. There were also other forces against them too like the media spinning their words and calling it a "carbon tax". One of the largest blows the bill took was when the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid made the announcement that he wanted to pass immigration reform before the climate-change bill. The entire Senate knew there was no immigration bill, it was a cynical ploy and it hurt. I believe that these three were the closest to getting it done and if they had a chance to do it all over they would maybe change their attack strategy to have a better outcome.