Boxer Predicts Climate Bill 'In Weeks'

clipped from news.yahoo.com The Senate's top environmental lawmaker offered a preview on Wednesday of major component of climate change legislation she said could be introduced "in weeks, not months." "We are not sitting back and waiting for some magic moment," Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, told reporters. "We're ready to go." Boxer shepherded carbon-capping legislation to the Senate floor last year, the most progress any climate change bill has made in the U.S. Congress. That bill won 48 votes, with 36 opposed, but died after a procedural maneuver by opponents. "It could be weeks, not months, but it will be before the end of this year," she said.

Not much to add here, other than it's welcome news. Although, if Democrats and the administration are as big a bunch of wusses about this as they have been about the stimulus, Boxer's prediction might just be sunny optimism.

Here's hoping Obama realizes that bipartisanship is a two-way street and, if Republicans don't want to join in, there's nothing he can do to wise them up. He doesn't need them and bipartisanship for the sake of bipartisanship is actually pretty damned worthless.

It's much better to actually get things done. Especially when voters gave you an honest-to-God mandate.