This is great news!  One would think we could hit the ground running, finally having a chance to push a green job wave that will revive the economy and stop climate change.

That doesn't seem to be happening.  It's hard to tell why.  Is it collective shock?

Some experts have weighed in, but they don't seem to have any really inspired thoughts.  Just the same stale rhetoric. 

Meanwhile lobbyists await, with cap and trade, new nuclear power projects, clean coal CCS, trees to fuel projects, and so forth.  Ethanol fuel farming is on the ropes, so you can bet big new subsidies are in the works.

So now the public loses its voice?  A strange and disturbing effect.