Paper: ‘Why Would Anyone Want to Be the Next Al Gore?’ – ‘Climate change is about as dead a political platform as you can find these days’
'Now, however, he and [Dem Sen. Sheldon] Whitehouse are locked in a waiting game. 'It took us a decade to get AIDS legislation. It took us 15 years to get tobacco regulations," Waxman told National Journal earlier this year. 'Sometimes when you play the long game, you get a stronger result. You put everything in place, you do the work, and you wait for the right moment to arrive.'
