In an unusual fit of negativity, I opined recently that "they" would probably screw up the Waxman/Markey energy bill, and it appears to be struggling, either because I was right or because I contributed some bad juju to it.

Joe Romm, over at Climate Progress, says that not only does Harry Reid continue to throw water on the hopes for an energy bill in the Senate this year, "the bigger question now is — can the House even pass its big energy and climate bill before the August break"? Quoting Greenwire, he goes on to say "there is not much evidence Waxman-Markey has got the votes to make it out of the *sub*committee yet."

Romm says the counterbalancing news is that energy remains an Obama priority, and that as he presses for action, he will get it. My full reading of his post doesn't reach the same conclusion, but I hope he's right.