Waiting On Innovation, Ctd

Douthat follows up:

Imagine that a more perfect version of cap-and-trade could have beensmoothed into law by G.O.P. support. And let's further bracket Manzi's favorite debating terrain,the (extremely important) question of whether the costs of a carbon capare worth the expected economic benefit, given the likely damagewrought by climate change. Even then, I still don't understand howprogressives can believe — especially in the wake of the Copenhagansummit — that this bill actually opens the...