The issue has been p!$$ed away. Now that Obama has put the “package deal” option front and center, the GOP can either agree to it (losing the initiative) or reject all of the alternative-energy development elements (which would be both bad long-term policy and bad short term politics — it would look like the Dems offered a reasonable compromise and the Pubs responded NO NO NO WAAAA WAAAA WAAAA I WANT IT ALL MY WAY WAAAAAAA!!).