Dick Cheney must be rolling over in his new bunker. He apparently is the only one who didn’t get an invitation to the party for polluters hosted on the Hil by Congressional Republicans. That’s OK, I guess, since Senate and House Republicans stand ready to pick up where Cheney’s secret energy task force left off.

POLITICO broke the news that top staffers of Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), the new chair of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, and Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), chair of the Senate Environment & Public Works Comittee, met behind closed doors with the energy industry earlier this week ‘to lay the groundwork for a sweeping Republican-led effort to undercut Obama’s climate agenda.’ Reportedly their plan is to enlist ‘unwavering support from a host of industries for an all-out push to block federal and state climate rules’ in addition to rolling back EPA’s new clean air standards.

‘The feedback we got was ‘hey, great, go for it guys,” one Republican aide told POLITICO. ‘And we pretty strongly told them we do need your help to get this done. And when we walked away from the meeting the feeling was we got that.’

Although the meeting […]