Ps.
My colleague a native [5th generation] Sacramentian no longer posts to Sacbee blog after her last [perfectly legitimate] comment was removed.

Hey!  He might have finally figured out that hydrogen is a loser.

The fact that Environmental Defense is involved with a Republican debate though might cause Glenn Hurowitz and Chris Bowers' brains to explode.

But thinking beyond the short-term, the gov. is absolutely right. And reporters could ask a less-obvious global warming question, and possibly provoke a real answer. (For example -- on coal, the real costs of "clean coal," etc.)

But they don't.

This year the candidates (at least on the Democratic side) seem to be leaving the press corp in the dust.

Maybe we need a new press corps.