The Deepwater Horizon Speech Reax

Josh
Green:

What
stood out was that for all his praise of the House climate bill and talk
about the "consequences of
inaction" and so forth, not once did he utter the phrase, "It's time to
put a price on carbon." And that suggests to me that this speech was
primarily about containing the damage to his administration,
and was not the pivot point in the energy debate that many people were
hoping for.

Drum:

The whole point of a prime time Oval Office speech (transcript here)is that it...