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...few people would call C. Boyden Gray a radical in any sense of the word. He's a lifelong Republican and the former White House counsel under President George H. W. Bush. Two decades ago, he became the father of the cap-and-trade system that's been used ever since to control acid rain.
..."I remember [then-White House Chief of Staff] John Sununu blew up, and he said, 'My God, you're going to strangle America,' and I said, 'No, John, calm down,' and he calmed down - and the rest is history," he says.
Cap and trade was a success on all fronts, Gray says. "It turned out to be even cheaper than I had anticipated. We were thinking $1,500 a ton - it turned out to be less than $300 a ton to control these emissions. I called it an almost near-miracle, but in retrospect, it wasn't all that surprising."
I think what is particularly textbook about this summary is in capturing how in US national media culture, legitimate policy struggles are only allowed to occur between moderate and radical Republicans. Despite Democrats' owning the White House and both chambers of Congress, and despite the almost total absence of moderate Republicans in 2009, the traditional media still behaves this way. Sigh.
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