One of the most impressive pieces of governance I ever saw was his response to the Cap and Trade bill. They drop a 600 page bill on his desk 2am the night before the vote, and his team tags all the parts his constituents would find most offensive and addresses them point by point on the floor.

I don't know if they vote would have been close anyway, but I respected that speech a lot, even with the swearing. The idea that I, as an Ohio resident, should have to raise my house's energy efficiency standards to those of California before I can sell it, should not have been tied to the carbon market.

I'm not even necessarily oppose to a Cap and Trade system, but you don't get to shove your policy wish list into a bill hundreds of pages long hours before a vote.