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2014-08-28 Government

Obama looks to skip Senate on new UN climate change deal

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Posted by Fred 2014-08-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Such a deal is still likely to be very controversial in the United States, and talk of the unusual agreement comes months before a midterm election, where the Senate majority is in play.

Proving once again that Champ's understanding of domestic political impacts is on a par with his understanding of foreign relations and international diplomacy. Welcome to the theater of the absurd.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-08-28 03:39|| 2014-08-28 03:39|| Front Page Top

#2 It's as if his principal motivation was "lets see how far I can go?".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-08-28 05:47|| 2014-08-28 05:47|| Front Page Top

#3 So what. Without Senate ratification, it won't be legally binding. Just like the Kyoto Protocol. Empty gestures and irrelevant symbolism are all the left is any good at anyway.

Aside from undoing all the hard, real, actual work done by their tribal enemies, that is.

Posted by RandomJD 2014-08-28 06:36|| 2014-08-28 06:36|| Front Page Top

#4 trying to get $ from the Dem Extremist "Environmentalists". That Keystone pipeline is gonna really piss them off in December

Posted by Frank G 2014-08-28 07:41|| 2014-08-28 07:41|| Front Page Top

#5 It is easy to assume Obama is stupid. This is nothing but a "gesture", nothing more. But we do have a President of the United States who really has no respect for the design of the American System, its Institutions, and ultimately for the character of its common people.

Obama isn't stupid, but he isn't your friend either. You people made a BIG mistake with electing the Messiah. You have gotten what you deserve. Eat your peas.

Posted by Big Thromoth3646 2014-08-28 07:50|| 2014-08-28 07:50|| Front Page Top

#6 I didn't vote for the SOB.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-08-28 08:08|| 2014-08-28 08:08|| Front Page Top

Posted by Besoeker 2014-08-28 08:38|| 2014-08-28 08:38|| Front Page Top

#8 This is like Clintons arsenic levels executive order. Unnecessary but it allowed the left to claim Bush was pro-arsenic when he removed the potentially economically damaging law.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-08-28 09:54|| 2014-08-28 09:54|| Front Page Top

#9 piece of shit

Posted by newc 2014-08-28 12:04|| 2014-08-28 12:04|| Front Page Top

#10 All Obozo is doing these days is fundraising. So this is just a fundraising tactic, to fleece the leftie rubes. Like a televangelist telling viewers they'll be saved if they donate all their money. A garden variety con artist, who will presumably abscond with a goodly chunk of the sums collected. The sooner the better.

Posted by RandomJD 2014-08-28 13:18|| 2014-08-28 13:18|| Front Page Top

#11 He can do that if he desires, but where will he get the $$ to implement? Assuming the House finds 2 balls to rub together, they could create budgetary legislation that stipulated where funds went and this POS shrivels and dies on the vine.
Of course finding said balls is the first step.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-08-28 21:43|| 2014-08-28 21:43|| Front Page Top

#12 "Politically binding" is an interesting phrase.

Posted by Grunter 2014-08-28 22:22|| 2014-08-28 22:22|| Front Page Top

#13 On O's part it is delusional thinking. He is playing to one or more of the 8-ball organizations in his base. He has become totally irrelevant in foreign policy, and he is headed for the same thing domestically. He has pi$$ed off a lot of supporters and his base is shrinking too, exept the Kool Aid drinkers.

Everything he touches turns to sh*t, like a scatological King Midas.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-08-28 23:10|| 2014-08-28 23:10|| Front Page Top

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