Dave Roberts of the Gristmill gets it right. At a meeting on environmental policy, he made the point that Republicans really don’t have detailed or credible global warming ideas, and someone scolded him for, “making it a political issue.”

His response is spot on:

It’s something I hear a lot, and I remain utterly baffled by it. The assumption seems to be that politics is bad and that the ideal state would be unity. That’s just … creepy. This is an enormously significant policy challenge facing a democracy, where different citizens and groups have different assessments of the problem and different proposals for solving it, arising from different interests. In other words, it is political. Politics is the means by which people resolve their disputes. The only practical way of achieving unity is by suppressing dissent.