The House actually passed Waxman-Markey

The conservative side is screaming and calling for heads to roll for the passage of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill. They're wasting their breath. For one thing, to get this through the Senate is going to take a lot of even more added provisions and riders -- so much so that I think it's likely that the host of Democrats and Republicans that held their noses and voted for this pig won't be able to vote for it again when it comes back in revised form -- even if it manages to get past Inhofe's Last Stand.

Part of the conservative problem is that they've been misled -- another way of saying it is lied to -- by the obfuscatory skeptics who keep trotting out the same old tired canards time and again, packaged differently (such as the EPA memo that got rightly routed right back to the authors as irrelevant). The bad science, pseudoscience, and biased science practiced by the skeptical horde is making good people nuts because they don't understand it. We ARE suffering from a crisis of scientific illiteracy in this country, and the apex of the salient is the global warming issue. When people can trot out Ian Plimer's new book as useful, or keep citing "The Great Global Warming Swindle as a reference, the lack of comprehension of what constitutes good, reasoned science is really messing up our ability to do anything reasonable.