American Clean Energy and Security Act

Today, Crazy Ed Martin blasted out the following in an email to supporters: "Senator Claire McCaskill voted in favor of Cap and Trade, signaling a rote hostility toward business by agreeing to increased energy prices."

False.  McCaskill didn't vote for the American Clean Energy and and Security Act because it never came up for a vote in the Senate.  It passed the House in June 2009, but died in the Senate.  It didn't even make it out of committee in the Senate. 

More than a few progressive types (like me) wish the Senator would be more aggressive in pushing for an energy policy that would create more green jobs and begin to address our unsustainable pollution problem.  But she hasn't.  

 Last week, two conservative Republican Senators, James Inhofe of Oklahoma and John Barrasso of Wyoming, called for an independent probe of the IPCC -- the international scientific body that summarizes the latest climate science -- and asked the Senate to halt all climate action until that happens.