One year on and its not looking so good for Obama. How the political land-scape can change in a year..
The Democrats are in deep political shock this morning as a truck-driving lawyer, Scott Brown took the prized seat of Massachusetts.
Scott Brown’s previous greatest claim to fame was winning Cosmopolitan’s America’s Sexiest Man competition in June [...]

Its not often now in journalism that someone tells you how it is and puts their neck on the line in no nonsense language.
So good old Rolling Stone - the grandfather rock and roll mag that has a great article on how the oil and gas killed hopes of a climate deal in the US [...]

So the Senate Climate Bill has finally been released. After months of meetings and waiting, two Democratic Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer have released their 800 page tome  - the  Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act.
But note there is no mention of the dreaded C word in the title – Climate.

Many American Presidents find their terms in office defined by one event: if we think of Nixon it was Watergate, Clinton it was the Monica Lewinsky affair and George Bush it was the war in Iraq.
Whilst many Americans may think that Obama’s Presidency will be defined on whether he succeeds in reforming health care at [...]

So the trickle turns into a tide. They are all at it now. There is a sudden rush amongst oil and gas companies in the US to garner grasssroots support to attack the Climate bill.
Just days after Greenpeace released an internal memo from the oil boys at the American Petroleum Institute, detailing plans to launch [...]