WASHINGTON — In one of the proudest moments of his long legislative career, Senator John F. Kerry was poised to unveil a long-awaited climate change bill tomorrow that would put a price on carbon emissions and provide billions of dollars in incentives to industry to drastically cut greenhouse gases. Kerry had brought business on board, and even forged something rare in Washington, a bipartisan compromise with a key Republican leader. Then his effort ran headlong into the Senate’s partisan snarl, and last night the release of the bill was postponed indefinitely. Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who had allied himself with Kerry on the issue, abruptly abandoned the effort last night, saying he was irate that the Senate’s Democratic leadership might proceed with a controversial immigration bill first. ‘Moving forward on immigration – in this hurried, panicked manner – is nothing more than a cynical political ploy,” Graham said. ‘I know from my own personal experience the tremendous amounts of time, energy, and effort that must be devoted to this issue to make even limited progress.” The sudden switch of priorities began late last week when Senate majority leader Harry Reid suggested to […]