Posted on 11/12/2014 9:23:35 AM PST by Bettyprob
Pesident Obama’s second term in office has been lacking in big achievements. Background checks for gun purchases didn’t make it through the Senate. Immigration reform isn’t becoming law this Congress, though the president is expected to take executive action on this front. And just last week, Obama’s party took a major drubbing in the midterm elections. But there is one potential second-term achievement that’s taking more and more shape -- on climate change. The big question, however, is whether Obama can keep it. Late last night, the United States and China announced they had “negotiated a sweeping agreement to cut emissions drastically by 2030, a deal that President Barack Obama called a ‘major milestone’ Wednesday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Beijing,” NBC News reports. This breakthrough follows the proposal Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency unveiled in June requiring existing power plants to cut their carbon emissions by 30% from 2005 levels by 2030. But as we mentioned yesterday, next year’s GOP-controlled Congress will seek to undermine those EPA rules. As the New York Times adds, “While the agreement with China needs no congressional ratification, lawmakers could try to roll back Mr. Obama’s initiatives, undermining the United States’ ability to meet the new reduction targets.”
Remember, Obama made combating climate change a big part of his second inaugural address. “We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,” he said in that speech. And it’s important to point out that Obama’s second-term actions on the climate -- the EPA rules, the deal with China -- are unilateral actions that can be undone by another president. But make no mistake: This is Obama’s pet issue of his second term.
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Delusional, they are.
Some legacy...announcing a dramatic solution to a non-problem.
Ironically, I think they are right. The capstone in his efforts to destroy our industrial base, to the benefit of our enemies (which are not his).
Chuck Todd is Laboratory Grade Stupid.
It requires no congressional approval because it doesn’t actually mean anything.
Chuck keeps his head pretty far up Obola’s butt, doesn’t he?
Besides, Obama has a legacy, it involves lying and deceits .
Besides, Obama has a legacy, it involves lying and deceits .
Not bad for $16,000,000,000,000. Although the weather app is for free on my cell phone.
Over my dead body.
What win? It was unilateral at best. We cut emissions. They keep on as they have.
Are they out of their friggin’ minds? A win?
Since China isn’t going to do much, how is cutting our energy consumption by 30% going to help the US economy? Oh, sure, there may be efficiencies to be had, and its true that CO2 isn’t an exact proxy for energy consumption (there’s wind, after all), but basically Obama is saying he’s going to cut the economy by roughly 25% to please the green crowd, and do it despite Congress.
I guess his plan is to just make energy hideously expensive (he can’t ration it). That won’t have any adverse consequences, right?
PS—whichever leftist nut the Dems run in 2016—Hillary or Lizzie, or whomever—will have to support this as his legacy, or try running against Obama, who is from their own party.
They can’t even unsmog Beijing or unpollute the Yangtze. And they’re being asked to do what.
Everyone hustles this guy better than a Three-Card Monte dealer against a five-year-old child.
Words became a win? Whatever they’re taking, I want some.
What an idiot he is...or he thinks we are idiots to believe this is some great deal.
If I was China I’d agree to it too: I can keep increasing my emissions until 2030? For free? It required nothing from me to do so? Why the heck Wouldn’t I sign? Meanwhile, Odumber offers to handicap my[China] greatest rival[the US] with stupid economy stifling rules!
Its a win win for China...and a lose lose for the US.
Way to go Zero. Ya dumb f**k.
Obozo will be gone in two years, hopefully less. He has zero influence on the next president to carry through on his pledge to wreak havoc on the U.S. economy with his grandiose pledge to cut greenhouse gases by 28%, when we are the only nation to have cut them so far, and China has only nodded and grinned watching him destroy our manufacturing base.
On the other hand, they can play a horribly gullible, narcissistic rube (i.e. Obama) like a cheap violin.
I heard this on NPR this morning and noticed the China action date was five years later than ours.
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