Posted on 11/20/2015 1:27:32 PM PST by Cheerio
A group of more than three dozen senators are pressing President Obama to tell the truth in talks with foreign leaders on any deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and explain that the ultimate say is with Congress and not the administration.
Republican Sens. John Barrasso of Wyoming and Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma led a group of 37 senators in sending a letter to the president Thursday night, saying that any global agreement with "binding" timetables and emission targets, as well as financial obligations costing taxpayers, "must be brought before Congress for approval."
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Does Corker know this?
These 37 Senators must be trying out for the joke of the month club. Obama won’t even pause in what he is doing and saying. Congress has neutered itself and unless it is willing to cut off the funds for Executive Branch operations, Obama will just have another laugh.
But yet, we saw on that Iran deal, that they set it up so that it would take a 2/3 vote of Congress to override a veto by Obama of the agreement, rather than a 2/3 vote of the Senate to ratify the treaty with Iran. Not sure why the GOP folded on that one, but they did. I would expect them to do the same on this global warming thing.
Off topic, but the optics on the global warming meeting will be terrible. Happening in Paris very soon after we see one of the greatest threats to civilization show us why they are a threat, Obama and others will lecture us in the same place that global warming is actually the greatest threat to civilization and life as we know it.
You are correct sir, unfortunately.
Das Zero has a pen and a phone, doncha know. Don’t need no stanking Congress.
A strongly worded letter...
What a laugh, right?
Obama and Truth , good one
What has Trump said about “climate change”?
hopefully he is not fooled by the charade.
Or what? You’ll send him another letter? Go grow a set pansies...
“we saw on that Iran deal, that they set it up so that it would take a 2/3 vote of Congress to override a veto”
I’m still furious over that. Republicans and democrats were complicit in that deal. I wish Trump would dig deeply into what transpired.
Should threaten him like i got in boot camp...Instructors told us our last shot and innoculations would be a square needle into our right testicle...We were scared to death.
Democrats are liars.
“Forcing Green Politics on Pension Funds
The Wall Street Journal ^ | November 18, 2015 | Andy Kessler
Last month the Obama administration’s Labor Department issued Interpretive Bulletin 2015-01, which tells pension funds what factors to use when choosing investments, including climate change. Only a few tax lawyers noticed, but with U.S. pensions at $9 trillion, this is a gross power grab that will hurt the retirees it claims to protect.
This government is essentially saying: Don’t you dare invest in anything that causes or is hurt by climate change, or you’ll be sued for failing your fiduciary responsibilities. Energy, utilities and industrials are 20% of the market. How can pension funds now own any of them?
Pushing politics on retirement funds will destroy returns. One little secret on Wall Street is that Erisa rules drive hedge funds to avoid pension money. It slows them down. As pension funds divest, hedge funds and other managers will gladly buy up undervalued climate-challenged companies.”
Mitch McCon-Job is already unfurling the surrender flag.
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