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You sound awful sure of yourself. If the "divided government" numbskulls get their way and stay at home the Senate could very well be lost. If you don't think Kerry could get Kyoto ratified you are gambling a hell of a lot more than a 500 billion dollar prescription bill. All Kerry has to do is EO the accords pending senate approval and he is so desperate to get back into the good graces of the "community of nations" he will do it.

You sound awful sure of yourself.

Japan has withdrawn from Kyoto. Russia didn't ratify it. Kyoto's dead as dead can be, and their ain't no way that Kerry could to pick up the 19 Senate seats he'd need to ratify, assuming a slew of Clinton-era Dem Senators flip-flopped.
34 GOP Senators can block any bad treaty

If the "divided government" numbskulls get their way and stay at home the Senate could very well be lost. If you don't think Kerry could get Kyoto ratified you are gambling a hell of a lot more than a 500 billion dollar prescription bill. All Kerry has to do is EO the accords pending senate approval and he is so desperate to get back into the good graces of the "community of nations" he will do it.

Yeah?
Why didn't Clinton do it?
I'm not gambling anything on Kerry, as you're aware. I've just seen the whole Kyoto "achievement" heavily overplayed in these parts the past few years. I'm glad Bush put a stake through it's corpse, and it has nice symbolic value, but as a practical matter it's not much more significant than National Pickle Week.