It's alive! An energy bill that puts a price on carbon is now officially undead.

It's trendy to be undead these days.  Sure sexy teenage vampires get all the media attention.  But don't forget those mad (political) scientists who toil tirelessly in their labs, assembling the best (worst?) parts of corpses, mixing in 100 million gallons of oil, and zapping the finished product with, say, the enormous power furnished by an electric (utility) cap.

I think we might call the resulting assemblage Lugar-Kerry-Lieberman-Graham-Cantwell-Collins-Waxman-Markey-Bingaman.  The...