Bush and his Administration will cave when pressured or booed, that's been the problem since 2001. It looked like he was starting to stand up this year, but it was too good to last
What a brilliant move by Bush. This is actually a play from the Clinton 1997 play book. In 1997, the Senate, in a 95-0 vote, acknwledged that global warming was bogus and Kyoto was an economic disaster if allowed to be enacted. However, Clinton sighed the treaty and was able to say he did his part.
If Bush can negotiate a treaty similar to Kyoto before his term expires, he will force the Democratic controlled Senate to act, or react. In other words, it puts the Dems in the hot seat as to either ratify the treaty and guarantee economic disaster or run away from it and thus infuriating their base.
If Bush is as smart as I hope he is, he will quickly sign a Kyoto type treaty in 2008 and “give in” to the demands of Algore and the UN warm mongers and force the Dems’ hand. It would be fun to watch how the Dems agonize over this political hot potato.
As long as the Senate refuses to ratify this or any other treaty, this is meaningless. Clinton signed on to Kyoto I, but nobody in the Senate voted for it. That’s the key to this nonsense.
~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ ping~~