Lost amid all the attention to the partisan standoff over raising the nation's debt limit is the insanity of a big part of the Republicans' bargaining position: Many of the savings they demand in return for a higher debt ceiling would come from killing the landmark clean energy initiatives President Biden achieved just nine months ago, and which already have set off a "gold rush" of job-creating investments.
The inattention to this issue since House Republicans narrowly passed their debt limit bill last month suggests just how inured we've become to the Republican Party's denial of climate change.
That's bad enough. But in this instance, the party is going beyond denialism to actually trying to thwart actions to mitigate global warming in the United States. What's more, besides wiping out Biden's clean energy tax incentives for companies and individuals, the Republicans want to sweeten tax breaks for fossil fuel production.
