Treaties need to be approved by two-thirds of the senate.
That treaty is going nowhere.
“Treaties need to be approved by two-thirds of the senate.”
True.
They are trying an end-around with cap and trade without Kyoto, and agreeing by legislation to international schemes.
My reply to a similar sentiment expressed elsewhere:
I agree with you on principle. However, there is a flaw in passively relying on the “limitations” built into the executive office. Those limitations really only exist if enforced. Like any law, if there is no one policing to detect and deter violations, it has no meaning. A cursory examination of American history reveals numerous examples of the built-in limitations of government being violently abused or ignored. At the end of the day we are the limitation on the executive. We are the Law. We have to keep this from happening.