If you think a signature without ratification is "going nowhere," I've got news for you.
Now I understand why Klintoon so loved to run around initialing treaties nobody thought could pass. He didn't have to pass them -- as long as his 'Rats could keep them from coming up for a vote, he could continue to "bind" us (technical term there, explained at the link), hobbling the United States and our People, in the teeth of our will.
What greater aphrodisiac for a moral and political felon of the zeroeth magnitude, than to do such a thing to the People against their will?