Will Copenhagen Say “Skoal!” to Obama, If He Doesn’t Bring Home an Agreement?
For those of you either hoping or fearing that the President would walk away from the Copenhagen summit with a real global warming agreement in his green little hands just remember this is Barack Obama we’re talking about.
Barack Obama conceded on Sunday that next month’s Copenhagen summit would not produce a legally binding agreement to tackle global warming, but left the door open to a substantive deal at the climate change conference.
Speaking at a conference of Asian countries Mr Obama confirmed what the United Nations, the European Union and other countries had already admitted – that there would not be time for a fully articulated treaty to be drawn up at the summit.
“We should not make the perfect the enemy of the good,” Mr Obama told delegates at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in Singapore where his views on Copenhagen were supported by all 21 participants, including China.
That little quote is short hand for “There’s no way in hell that China and India are going to hamstring their own energy needs for something we can’t actually prove exists. We might as well have them cut their own economic throats for a Strategic Santa Claus Treaty. Besides, I have to get whatever I negotiate in Copehnagen past the Senate, what with it being an international treaty and all, and there’s no way I will be able to slick this job-killer past them this close to the 2010 elections”.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t be vigilant, but I can’t imagine that the President is going to do much more than get the normal set of bobble-headed nods from European Kool Aid drinkers and a skeptical eye from nations who actually care about their economies. I certainly could be wrong about that, but let’s take a quick gander at reality. The President can’t even get his more modest cap and trade bill through the House. How likely is it that he’ll shove an even more destructive bill through the Senate?
(via memeorandum)
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