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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: upchuck

61 posted on 08/29/2016 7:58:01 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
President Trump’s first official act should be to ask for the return of the Churchill bust to the White House. Then, put in a call to the Canuks about a certain oil pipeline...

Sounds like an excellent campaign speech addition
62 posted on 08/29/2016 8:06:15 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Biggirl

In my movie he finds clear evidence to try the Obamaci and Clintonici for treason. All of them are found guilty before a military tribunal and are summarily executed. Their vast wealth is taken and repatriated to the Treasury. They are remembered as disgraced villains.


63 posted on 08/29/2016 8:12:53 AM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: bert

Trump will have to clean out all the Muslim Brotherhood moles at the top levels of our government first.


64 posted on 08/29/2016 8:18:52 AM PDT by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: upchuck

I’m sure our tough GOP congressional leaders are readying their Depends for just such an emergency.


65 posted on 08/29/2016 8:34:44 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (#nevertrump is really #readyforhillary)
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To: upchuck; All
Patriots are reminded that the corrupt media is taking advantage of low-information voters by ignoring that the Constitution doesn’t give the president the option to bypass the Senate concerning accords treaties.

So if Obama bypasses the Senate on the climate treaty, it is only becasue corrupt Congress let him get away with doing so and is helping the corrupt media to deceive citizens.

Remember in November !

Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional inteference in state affairs.

Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.

66 posted on 08/29/2016 9:20:53 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: upchuck

When I go to my happy place I visualize the kenyan klown wearing a blindfold in front of a pock marked wall. Fuego!


67 posted on 08/29/2016 9:25:06 AM PDT by WhirlwindAttack (Crooked politicians solution. "Got rope?")
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To: Gaffer

And the Chinese are not that stupid to believe it becomes binding.


68 posted on 08/29/2016 10:36:18 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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