text: You'd think by now Sen. Boxer would get it. Maybe she does. Maybe what really bugs her is that the Bush administration today narrowly avoided a public policy disaster. Just think, if EPA had rushed to set CO2 standards for new cars and trucks, the ensuing regulatory cascade could have given us the equivalent of a dozen Kyoto Protocols, yet without Sen. Boxer or any of her allies on the Hill voting for it or taking responsibility for the economic fallout. It would all have been George Bush's mess. How convenient for them!