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Hamstrung by Congress, Obama tries to clinch climate pact
AP News via Townhall.com ^ | November 28

Posted on 11/28/2015 6:05:57 PM PST by Kaslin

WASHINGTON (AP) P_resident Barack Obama is trying to negotiate a legacy-making climate change pact this coming week in Paris with one hand tied behind his back. Congress can't even agree whether global warming is real.

Scientists point to the global agreement, years in the making, as the last, best hope for averting the worst effects of global warming. Obama has spent months prodding other countries to make ambitious carbon-cutting pledges to the agreement, which he hopes will become the framework for countries to tackle the climate issue long beyond the end of his presidency in early 2017.

But Republicans have tried to undermine the president by sowing uncertainty about whether the U.S. will make good on its promises. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other GOP leaders have warned other countries not to trust any deal Obama may strike; other GOP allies are working to nullify Obama's emissions-cutting steps at home.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climateconference; co2; congress; energy; epa; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; kentucky; liberallunacy; methane; mitchmcconnell; obama; opec; paris; petroleum; popefrancis; romancatholicism
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1 posted on 11/28/2015 6:05:57 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Much like Congress, Hussein is not part of a Representative Government staffed by Public Servants....


2 posted on 11/28/2015 6:07:12 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: Kaslin

Legacy making? It will achieve nothing...mostly because it’s designed to do exactly that. It’s a show pony but we need war horses.


3 posted on 11/28/2015 6:08:14 PM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: Kaslin; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; alrea; ...

Global Warming PING!


4 posted on 11/28/2015 6:09:18 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Beware of the grievance-industrial complex)
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To: Kaslin

Quote:

“Scientists point to the global agreement, years in the making, as the last, best hope for averting the worst effects of global warming.”

Pure, unadulterated, 100% horse hockey.


5 posted on 11/28/2015 6:09:44 PM PST by TTFlyer
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To: Kaslin

God willing sanity will be restored to our great nation January 2017.


6 posted on 11/28/2015 6:10:58 PM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: TTFlyer

97% of Americans recognize this as a BIG concentration of Road Apples. ManBearPig is the Johnny of Road Apple Seeds.


7 posted on 11/28/2015 6:11:50 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: Kaslin

“Scientists point to the global agreement, years in the making, as the last, best hope for averting the worst effects of global warming. “

What a pantload.


8 posted on 11/28/2015 6:12:08 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Kaslin

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.

3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


9 posted on 11/28/2015 6:12:55 PM PST by abclily
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To: relictele

That arrogant pos is going to have a legacy alright, but it won’t be what he wants it to be.


10 posted on 11/28/2015 6:14:51 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Remember when we used to call “pacts” as treaties?

Like the kind that need senate approval?


11 posted on 11/28/2015 6:14:53 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Kaslin

Any treaty he makes will have to be ratified by the Senate...Oh.


12 posted on 11/28/2015 6:14:59 PM PST by fhayek
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To: Kaslin

Ah, if only Congress would tell Obama where to shove this (and so much more).


13 posted on 11/28/2015 6:15:41 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Kaslin

At .04% of the atmosphere, CO2 is not the culprit.

Since China and India will be exempt, this is purely political, and the wet dream of all anti Americans.


14 posted on 11/28/2015 6:15:50 PM PST by datura (Proud Infidel)
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To: abclily
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

By judicious regulation and legislation regarding it's allowed output.

15 posted on 11/28/2015 6:16:19 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: fhayek

That’s not what that corker Corker believes.


16 posted on 11/28/2015 6:16:59 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: headstamp 2

You said it.


17 posted on 11/28/2015 6:17:14 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Yes. Obama could do such great, great things if he were not hamstrung by:
— Congress
— The Constitution
— The electorate
— Money
— Facts
— Time, space
— The laws of physics
etc.,


18 posted on 11/28/2015 6:18:06 PM PST by rbg81 (is pr)
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To: Kaslin
Heh, heh, heh, he said "HAMstrung", heh, heh, heh....

I now return you to the Bacon Channel....

19 posted on 11/28/2015 6:18:28 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: fhayek

“Any treaty he makes will have to be ratified by the Senate”

Ah, yes, but that’s for treaties, right? Not “pacts” or “agreements” or “pinky swear promises”, which can be put in place by The 0ne by himself.


20 posted on 11/28/2015 6:18:57 PM PST by DBrow
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