Posted on 09/28/2004 7:15:28 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Oops, should have read the entire thread....and yes it was 95-0....can anyone confirm that gigolo voted with the majority.
The entire treaty is basically designed to punish America for being economically successful and that's why America refuses to sign it.
If Kerry were to become President, Kyoto would be at the top of his list to destroy America.
Check out the John F. Kerry Timeline. Email it to your friends.
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Not logially possible. If it's an incentive-based system, it will never be universal. If it's universal, then it has to be government mandated. Never the twain shall meet.
Kerry's lying again.
"All children in America will be covered automatically, day one, no questions asked," Kerry said, adding. "I want universal health-care coverage for all Americans." ***
Kerry's lying again.
BUMP!
The first Earth Day was held on Lenin's 100th birthday. Was that a coincidence?
Many countries have signed Kyoto. The US signed Kyoto. That is far different than ratifying the treaty and making it law. That only a handful of countries have done.
If Rush's point is that there is only one country affected by Kyoto that actually ratified it, then he's dead on.
The US actually signed Kyoto - President Clinton did it to kiss environmentalist ass, knowing full well that the Senate would never ratify it.
As of February 2002 104 countries had signed it and 85 had ratified it.
Versus Kerry's Naomi Wolf-man.
Thanks for the info.
When Kerry was in Wisconsin and he referred to Bush's "Secret Plan against milk producers" was he talking about lactating mothers, too?
Robert Novak: Kyoto: Still Signed
........President Bush's conviction that the one-sided Kyoto pact threatens prosperity here is not in doubt. While Kyoto will not be ratified while he is in the White House, there is no statute of limitations for diplomatic treaties. Accordingly, a future Democratic president—elected in 2004 or later—could push it through the Senate.
To prevent that, the U.S. would disavow Kyoto—unsign the treaty—prior to the United Nations global warming conference in Johannesburg beginning August 26. The plan, under Cheney's patronage, was to unsign Kyoto before the Johannesburg meeting and then submit it to the U.N. (as was done with the ICC). Bush disconnected from the Rome treaty establishing the ICC just before it went into effect.
Now that Rice has scuttled Kyoto unsigning plans, the global warming treaty at long last may go into effect at Johannesburg without U.S. approval. If Secretary of State Colin Powell insists on attending the conference, however, that could be interpreted as tacit American support. ..... http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/07/25/column.novak/
Kerry has made multiple items "the first thing I will do as President." Bush should have the list at the debate and say "When you spoke to X you told them Y would be your first act as President. And when you spoke to A you told them B would be your first act. You have told no less than a dozen groups what your first act would be, but all of them are different. What exactly will be your first act as President?"
Kerry voted for it before voting against it.
sheesh
He is running for president not king. No first day mandates on health care or any other topic.
If the man does not even understand the constitution he needs to go back to MA and stay under his rock.
Day One? Twenty years in the Senate and he's already forgotten how laws are passed.
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Adviser rejects Kyoto Protocol for Russia
Moscow, Russia, Sep. 28, 2004 (UPI) -- Signing the Kyoto Protocol on global warming would prevent Russia doubling its gross domestic product, a top Kremlin adviser said Monday. Russia plans to double its GDP in the next decade, but the goal could not be achieved if the nation signed and implemented the Kyoto Protocol, Andrei Illarionov, an economic adviser to President Vladimir Putin, told a Moscow investment conference, the Interfax news agency said.
"The scenario for doubling GDP implies an annual increase of 7.2 percent over 10 years. At that rate of growth the increase in carbon dioxode emissions could be significant," Illarionov told the conference, entitled "Russia; Investment in an Economy of Growth."
Economy Minister German Gref, however, signed a letter to the government voicing his approval of the treaty, the Moscow News reported Monday.
The Kyoto Protocol, calling for a cap on greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the effects of global warming, can only be ratified if signed by the developed nations that produce half of the world's emissions.....
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040927-050027-3463r.htm
January 30, 2004
***.....In 1997, he voted against the Kyoto Protocol on global warming but now criticizes the Bush administration for not pursuing the treaty, which is designed to cut down on global toxic emissions. Kerry said he would return to the negotiating table to fix the treaty because "it didn't have the participation of rapidly emerging countries."....***
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/election2004/7837934.htm
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