New York Times: And Now, Climate Bill’s Supporters Try Counting to 60 in Senate
“The House acted; I think the Senate will come to the same conclusion,” David Axelrod, Obama’s top political adviser, said yesterday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “The [House] bill that was crafted helped ameliorate some of the hard edge that people were worried about. I think that will carry the day in the Senate, as well.” Axelrod acknowledged that Democrats lack the 60 Senate votes they need to overcome a filibuster. But he insisted Obama would not let the House bill wither.

“The vote is not tomorrow,” Axelrod said. “The vote will come sometime in the fall. I think we will fashion an energy package that will move this country forward and carry the day.”

According to an E&E analysis of the Senate, 60 votes is within reach for a cap-and-trade climate bill, but many concessions must be made to get the measure across the goal line. To start, there are 45 senators in the “yes” or “probably yes” camp, including Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Maine Republicans Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe. more…..

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hotair.com:Video: Energy Czar hasn’t read cap & tax, either
Barack Obama’s energy czar appeared on Fox & Friends this morning to discuss the cap-and-tax bill passed by the House last week on a razor-thin margin. Carol Browner got stumped by Fox’s Steve Doocy while questioning her ability to speak to the subject, which prompted her to declare Doocy “unfair” for blindsiding her.
[note from Conservative Nation - Doocy (who I like)  is a morning guy and not what I'd call hard-hitting. That he was able to 'blindside' our new energy czar with a simple question about a piece of legislation she should be intimately familiar with speaks volumes about the type of dim-witted and dishonest leftist politicians who are currently in control of the country] more…..

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The Hill: Boehner: Climate bill a ‘pile of s–t’
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) had a few choice words about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) landmark climate-change bill after its passage Friday. When asked why he read portions of the cap-and-trade bill on the floor Friday night, Boehner told The Hill, “Hey, people deserve to know what’s in this pile of s–t.” Using his privilege as leader to speak for an unlimited time on the House floor, Boehner spent an hour reading from the 1200-plus page bill that was amended 20 hours before the lower chamber voted 219-212 to approve it. more…..

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Boehner and Waxman spar during Boehner’s filibuster of Cap and Trade:

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WSJ: Ruling Upends Race’s Role in Hiring
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court set a new standard for employers’ use of race in hiring decisions, ruling that New Haven, Conn., wrongly discriminated against a group of mostly white firefighters who lost out when a promotion exam was scrapped because no blacks scored well enough to advance.

Monday’s opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy said employers must show a “strong basis in evidence” before ignoring results of employment-related tests — even if they worry the outcome was unfair — so as not to frustrate other applicants. The 5-4 decision, on the final day of the court’s term, follows a series of Supreme Court rulings that limit the scope of policies intended to address racial bias.

The case, Ricci v. DeStefano, had been closely watched because the lower appeals court’s one-paragraph ruling came from a three-member panel that included Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s nominee to succeed Justice David Souter. That now-defunct ruling is certain to feature heavily at her Senate confirmation hearings, scheduled to begin July 13. more…..

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Washington Times: Conyers abandons plan to probe ACORN
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying “powers that be” put the kibosh on the idea. …The chairman declined to elaborate, shrugging off questions about who told him how to run his committee and give the Democrat-allied group a pass. more….

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Victor Davis Hanson: Obama and the ‘Noble Lie’
I still cannot quite believe Obama thinks that chattel slavery in America was ended without violence. Or that Islam was responsible for unprecedented breakthroughs in advanced math, sophisticated medicine, and printing, let alone that it served as a catalyst for the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Instead, Obama seems to believe that fudging on facts is not fudging, but simply offers a competing narrative that gains validity by its good intentions. Most Americans, Obama further believes, are either too dense or too uneducated to discern his misinformation. But they will at some future date appreciate the global good will that results from his feel-good mytho-history. more…..

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-Cnation