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Obama will bypass Senate, ratify Paris climate accord himself during trip to China
Wash Times ^ | Aug 29, 2016 | Valerie Richardson

Posted on 08/29/2016 5:51:12 AM PDT by upchuck

President Obama is prepared to enter into the Paris climate accord as early as this week even though Republicans have insisted that the pact must be ratified by the Senate, according to a report out of China. The South China Morning Post reported that Mr. Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping are “set to jointly announce their ratification” of the ambitious international climate-change pact on Friday, two days before the start of the 11th G-20 Summit in Hangzhou, Zhejiang...

Myron Ebell, director of the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment, described the report as “curious because ratifying treaties in the United States requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate.”...

Sen. James Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has warned other nations that without Senate approval, the agreement will “soon become another stack of empty promises on global warming.” I want to make sure international participants are warned now that the president’s commitment lacks the support of his own government and will fail,” Mr. Inhofe said in an April 12 statement...

“One can only speculate how the administration plans to ratify the agreement without approval of the Senate,” the Science and Environmental Policy Project said in a Sunday statement. “But given the disregard the administration has demonstrated toward Congress and the Constitution, such speculation is fitting.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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To: Lazamataz

Laws are for the serfs, it’s good to be the King.


41 posted on 08/29/2016 6:37:48 AM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: upchuck


42 posted on 08/29/2016 6:38:08 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: upchuck

Damned Kenyan dictator!


43 posted on 08/29/2016 6:39:06 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: upchuck

New York Times Headline - January 21, 2017:

SPITEFUL TRUMP OVERTURNS OBAMA HUMANITARIAN TREATY

Millions expected to die.

Women and children hit hardest.

Democrats threaten impeachment!


44 posted on 08/29/2016 6:44:18 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: upchuck

Obama can sign anything he pleases. It’s not legally binding in the United States until the Senate ratifies it.


45 posted on 08/29/2016 6:45:51 AM PDT by JamesP81
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To: upchuck

How can a President ratify a treaty without the approval of Congress?


46 posted on 08/29/2016 6:47:37 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: Paleo Pete; ExTexasRedhead

“I’m wondering if Trump is going to be able to get anything done at all in his first 6 months, other then cleaning up Obama’s messes”

He’s going to have to run the country from Trump Tower for several months while the White Hut is fumigated, disinfected, the matresses in the living quarters burned, and all the $hit these turds left behind disposed of. Ditto for wherever that little ferret press secretary hung out.


47 posted on 08/29/2016 6:53:49 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: upchuck
Expect to see a lot of this. Øbama is cueing up work for the lame duck Congress. Would the GOPe join with the RATs to approve carp like this, just to hamstring President-elect Trump? You KNOW they would.

Rail, tar, and feather futures should be skyrocketing!

48 posted on 08/29/2016 7:04:07 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#NeverTrumpers: "commercial self-interest masquerading as ideological purity")
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I think the Canadians have already started piping over to BC and selling oil sands oil to China


49 posted on 08/29/2016 7:05:53 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: upchuck

50 posted on 08/29/2016 7:08:33 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (In Today's America Feelings Are The New Truth)
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To: dp0622

My concern is that he’s gonna fund the initiatives of the accord.

He seems to be able to spend money without congressional approval.


51 posted on 08/29/2016 7:10:16 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: NonValueAdded

Buy futures in tar and feathers now!


52 posted on 08/29/2016 7:11:45 AM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: upchuck

We don’t need no stinking Congress or Courts. . .we have a Royal Presidency. . . .


53 posted on 08/29/2016 7:15:06 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: atc23

Who can blame them ?


54 posted on 08/29/2016 7:19:59 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Mariner

I’m almost more disgusted that this newspaper just writes that headline without even a hint that the writer winced at all.


55 posted on 08/29/2016 7:27:02 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik

The congress is full of eunuchs, capons and geldings. Are they in their safe space whimpering and shaking?


56 posted on 08/29/2016 7:28:16 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: upchuck

Then Obama will throw a Ton of money into it on unmarked planes before he leaves


57 posted on 08/29/2016 7:31:17 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: PTBAA
What will it take for Congress to finally draw up the Articles of Impeachment?
A Republican President.
58 posted on 08/29/2016 7:31:52 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: upchuck

Obama’s attitude and actions are just like so many other Blacks: laws, rules, the Constitution don’t apply to us, they are just White man’s laws. That has been a prevalent attitude for a long time, but under Obama, the “First Racist” it seems to have become more ingrained in Blacks.


59 posted on 08/29/2016 7:34:11 AM PDT by falcon99
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To: hal ogen
The congress is full of eunuchs, capons and geldings. Are they in their safe space whimpering and shaking?

You nailed it!

60 posted on 08/29/2016 7:41:03 AM PDT by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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