Lookee here, the Senate has put off introduction of their “global warming” legislation again, after having just thumped their breasts about procrastinating no longer and announcing a September 8 introduction.

But don’t worry, they plan “to consider this comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation before the end of the year.”

One thing we do know: This delay is due to the fact that the public ain’t buying what the rationers are selling. If they were, this baby would be on the floor so fast it would make your head spin. After all, for six years the mantra was “We know the problem we know the solution. WE. MUST. ACT. NOW!”

So, drafting their desired bill isn’t the problem. The problem is that it’s the same as (or worse than) the House bill (worse in that it might sell more or all of the ration coupons, as the president sought — and, it turns out, is still assuming for budget purposes).

My guess is that we’ll have fun with this statement when whatever pooch of a bill they agree on finally emerges: “In a statement, Reid said Boxer and Kerry ‘are working diligently to craft a well-balanced bill.’”

Man, that’s rich. The Left and Far Left will announce they’ve bridged their differences, reaching an historic agreement in which San Francisco’s Boxer comes to terms with Côte de Massachusetts’s Kerry — just as when Beverly Hills’s Waxman reached out to Massachusetts’s Markey.

And we’ll have fun, too, juxtaposing their current promises about a balanced bill with what an attentive electorate thinks of their Left/Far Left compromise — and with their inevitable reluctance to allow a floor vote. The Democrats can’t afford that after the two months they’ve had.