Scripps News: In his Oval Office address, President Barack Obama termed the Gulf oil spill “the most painful and powerful reminder that the time to embrace a clean-energy future is now.” He urged lawmakers to “seize the moment” to enact a comprehensive energy and climate-change law. Predictably, the Republicans accused the president of exploiting the crisis, in the words of House GOP leader John Boehner, to “impose a job-killing energy tax.” Environmentalists and many Senate Democrats probably …