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.”
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What will it take for Congress to finally draw up the Articles of Impeachment?
Hey Jim, just state that it is null and void without senate approval. Forget the stupid AGW narrative. <<<
EXACTLY! and while hes at it...start the impeachment process over it...
(Gawd...I feel like a democrat with my “magical thinking”)
Oh, no problem.
Corker and Cruz will bail him out again.
“...even though Republicans have insisted that the pact must be ratified by the Senate...”
“insisted”??
That language is the problem. The correct verbs are “stated” and “will NOT be ratified”.
His first act will be to ask for the clipboard. He will sign the paper on the clipboard on the inaugural dais rescinding all the Executive Orders of the Obama administration
Hopefully Trump has a staff member keeping a spreadsheet of all the crap Trump has to eliminate, prevent, stop, cancel and reverse before he can even get to work on his six campaign promise initiatives. .
In all the articles I’ve read, I hadn’t picked up on that but it appears you are correct.
Good, if they’ll loan it back to us, it’s a short ride.
He is a lawless bastard.
He has no authority to sign any treaty that has not been ratified by Congress.
If that happens the treaty is NOT ratified. He’s trying to intimidate the Senate and America into believing it has been ratified. People must push back against this Rabid Dictator.
I thought President Xi wasn’t going along with the charade. What changed?
Methinks this is a ruse to provide cover for something else, like invading Taiwan or taking control of the South China Sea. obama will agree to withdraw our military presence and look the other way.
Big media will say Taiwan had it coming.
“His first act will be to ask for the clipboard. He will sign the paper on the clipboard on the inaugural dais rescinding all the Executive Orders of the Obama administration “
This would be EPIC!!!
Now, THAT would be an eye popper...
before he can even get to work on his six campaign promise initiatives.
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I thought there were seven promised initiatives. Anyhow, I hope you’re right about the spreadsheet.
It has ZERO force of law.
ZERO.
We can get right up in his face and willfully, publicly violate any of the terms.
And laugh at the impotent fool.
If Obama does this, there is no need for any one to do any thing about it as it is as unenforceable as if I were to sign it. Would that we could exit Obama sooner, like now.
A rogue criminal in the White House. Where the HELL are you, PAUL RYAN??????
IMPEACHMENT TIME!
A rogue criminal in the White House. Where the HELL are you, PAUL RYAN??????
IMPEACHMENT TIME!
Constitution? What Constitution?
Political corruption running rampant in this country that is making the politicians rich and they are worried about the Second Amendment. I think they’re thinking that somebody is going to have to do something about all the corruption and lawlessness being committed by these corrupt politicians.
“This is just a way for the low-class twit to flip him the bird.”
Actions have consequences.
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