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Osama bin Laden is dead and gone. Republicans and Democrats this week came together to rejoice and pass resolutions praising U.S. troops and the intelligence community. Even Donald Trump called a truce.
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Congress and the country remained unified for months – some might argue for years. In the wake of bin Laden’s death, however, the unity has been much shorter lived.
Perhaps the most underplayed story of the day is the Lieberman-Warner bill being considered on the Senate floor this week. This is the first big piece of global warming legislation the Senate has weighed since Lieberman’s last version of this, co-authored with John McCain (thus earning the staff nickname McLieberman), went down in 2005. This [...]
