Kathleen Sebelius

Day 2 of the DNC came to a close last night with energy issues front and center.

Hillary’s remarks hit all the right notes. TIME's headline: "Clinton Delivers for Obama." Gristmill writes: "Hillary Clinton says lots of good stuff on climate and energy."

Snippets from her speech follow (full text here, videos after the post):

We need to elect Barack Obama because we need a President…who understands that we can't solve the problems of global warming by giving windfall profits to the oil companies while ignoring opportunities to invest in new technologies that will build a green economy.

He'll transform our energy agenda by creating millions of green jobs and building a new, clean energy future.

Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer gave a slashing attack on McCain’s energy policies and a rousing rallying cry for Obama in this stunner of a speech that names the "petro-dictators" as the adversary they are. That earned him rounds of applause and top mention in the Los Angeles Times and Forbes, who comments:

Plans for new coal in Kansas are unraveling.

The latest? The Kansas House has failed to come up with a two-thirds majority to override Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ vetoes of two new coal plants in Western Kansas.

In response, legislators have chosen to smear lipstick all over the legislative pig by layering it with economic development dollars for other parts of the state -- and calling it new. What nerve!

Here's how Kansas lawmaker Judy Morrison sees it:

"It's one of the worst bills I've ever seen. What they're trying to do is force everyone to vote for it. It's blackmail."

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