My God, the book club arguments are annoying lately.  Is it just me? 

Matt Bai proposes that liberals suck because they don't have big ideas like for example big idea X thought up by... liberals.

S&N say that regulatory reform alone cannot solve the problem of global warming!!!  But technological investment is needed too.

Romm says that technological investment alone cannot solve global warming!!!   But regulatory reform is needed too.

(Okay, so what's the argument, exactly?) 

Five hundred posts of Terribly Important Debate later, we find out that they basically support the same policies.

Gah.

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Post-venting addition: I mean I'm glad the authors were invited and all, and I thought Bai had some interesting things to say, even if I am unconvinced by his book's premise. Just some of the arguments smack of a (liberal? maybe human) tendency to split into factions over what seem to me to be minor things. Gets annoying...