Some pundits challenge my statement, "Future generations are likely to view Obama's choice of health care over energy and climate legislation as a blunder of historic proportions." - Here's why they are wrong

Last week, I blogged on David Brooks' counterfactual in which Obama tackled energy before health care.

I broke a cardinal rule of blogging — well, it would be a cardinal rule if blogging had any — in that I made a sweeping statement, but sent folks to my earlier post, "The failed presidency of Barack Obama, Part 1," for the defense of that statement.  Few people click on links.  That is life on the blogosphere.

That said, I've been making the same essential point for a long time now — see my...