Somewhere, David, I think conservatives are throwing up in their mouths a little too.  

Gerson says: "But only the government can create the incentives for Americans to work on this problem with urgency and seriousness."

We've sure come a long way from the small government conservative philosophies that shaped the Reagan era, haven't we?

I could see myself lying or keeping my opinions to myself to get a job like he had.     Lot's of jobs have some sort of ethical questions to them.  In politics, compromises have to be made or else nobody can work for anybody.   I mean, how much of a match can people have to work for someone else.

But "prudence being a conservative virtue"  It's not prudence, it's not giving a   care.

Is this the guy who said, " well, bush said 23 words about global warming in 2003 and 36 words on the subject in 2004, that shows he's been trying to do something about it."    That's not a direct quote, but the bush administration said something like it.

but now he's got to make money doing something and writing for the post is better than most.  He'll just write something against cap and trade next month.

No, he won't write something against cap-and-trade, he'll continue to beat the drum for it because his corporate masters have figured out that cap-and-trade offers them the same kind of target- rich playing field that the labyrinthine tax code does and it could be invaluable in heading off a carbon tax.

These hacks know you can't beat something with nothing, so they're going to promote the something that provides lots of opportunities to profit while shifting the pain onto others.

I'm so glad you posted on this malodorous piece of dreck, you've saved me the trouble.  I hate seeing what the The Washington Post has become:  a tired gelding, still trying to live off it's Watergate glory, now little more than the Pravda for the Washington elites.

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