Grist: When pondering the failure of a big legislative initiative like cap-and-trade - and oh, there`s been so much pondering! - there are two basic perspectives one can take.
First, you can think about how a campaign could be improved so that next time the initiative can clear the bar. That`s mostly what my recent post-cap-and-trade piece (and the Theda Skocpol report [PDF] it discussed) focused on. Build a bigger movement, make the legislation simpler, get more help from the president, whatever. That...