We're enduring record heat in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I live, and all over the country, even the local papers daily report news of the effects of global warming, individuals, cities and states are taking steps to reduce their CO2 emissions, yet no where on this website can I even find the phrase "global warming." Instead I find references to the need for lower gas prices! Okay, so there's also talk of energy independence and "fighting big oil" but why are Democrats so afraid of confronting this not just impending but actual ecological and eventually economic and social disaster head on, putting it at the top of the priority list and coming up with an all-fronts program to reduce the U.S.'s appalling effect on our global health, even if it means that we citizens have to "make sacrifices"--higher taxes, smaller cars, more industry regulation-- in the present to ensure the future for our descendents. The importance of other issues pales before this one; unless and until the Democratic Party initiates real leadership here, my enthusiasm for its other agendas will remain lukewarm!