AtlanticWire: Senate Democrats and Republicans spent much of 2009 wrangling over a climate change bill, known as cap and trade, that looked increasingly likely to make history but died suddenly and spectacularly this summer. The House, for its part, had passed a comprehensive climate change bull in June 2009. As the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza notes in a lengthy article on the bill’s life and death, three senators, a Republican, a Democratic, and an Independent, “had cobbled together an unusual coalition of …