DrumBeat: September 30, 2008

The green bubble bursts: Amid the energy crisis, Democrats are losing the high ground on the environment to a GOP that is pushing oil drilling As the election enters its endgame, Democrats and their environmental allies face a political challenge they could hardly have imagined just a few months ago. America’s growing dependence on fossil fuels, once viewed as a Democratic trump card held alongside the Iraq war and the deflating economy, has become a lodestone instead. Republicans stole the en