Posted on 12/19/2009 9:01:48 AM PST by ricks_place
Like many of Obama's perceived failures and equivocal triumphs, I suspect that yesterday's oh-so-partial climate deal will bear fruit over time. But this sum-up from the President -- notwithstanding his refusal to oversell -- raises a red flag:
Mr Obama acknowledged that the deal was “not sufficient to combat the threat of climate change but [was] an important first step” on cutting greenhouse gases.“We have made a meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough. For the first time in history, all of the major economies have come together to take action [on global warming],” he said after meetings with Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Jacob Zuma, the South African president.
That "unprecedented" recalls Hillary's disastrous gush about Israel's "unprecedented" settlement freeze (never mind that it's true, whether or not it's enough). And the "unprecedented" stimulus, and health care reform bill...all true. But all messy, partial, slow-acting. With fire incoming fire from left and right, that adjective is a rich target.
(Excerpt) Read more at andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com ...
Well, I’ll have to hand it to’em....yes, everything about Zer0 is unprecedented! The littany is so long it would take a book.
No signatures, nothing binding, no meaningful transparency, and no enforcement; this was nothing more than a PR position so that the leaders could crow that they did something, when, in fact, they could not agree on much of anything. This was a deal that could have been done by all concerned while watching football in an easy chair; Copenhagen was a farce, and now the MSM is trying to score this farce so they can sell it on stage.
The AP tried to shill for The Marxist Onada in my local paper today. Headline said “something meaningful” happened. However, about half way thru the fairy tale it became apparent that Zero got zero. I think he is batting 100% now. And I still think Reid does not have the 60 votes he thinks he has. Keeping their public trough jobs will trump any goodies some of them were offered to buy their vote.
Anybody hear when Reid intends to bring it to a vote? That’ll be a good indicator just where we are.
My other favorite word is “comprehensive.”
For the first time in history, all of the major economies of the world have been duped by the biggest hoax in world history.
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