This should send shivers of defeat through the bodies of all Republicans
(Politico) Top Republican lawmakers are planning a wide-ranging offensive — including outreach to foreign officials by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office — to undermine President Barack Obama’s hopes of reaching an international climate change agreement that would cement his environmental legacy.
The GOP strategy, emerging after months of quiet discussions, includes sowing doubts about Obama’s climate policies at home and abroad, trying to block key environmental regulations in Congress, and challenging the legitimacy of the president’s attempts to craft a global agreement without submitting a treaty to the Senate.
A top policy aide to McConnell (R-Ky.) has had conversations with a select group of representatives from foreign embassies to make it clear that Republicans intend to fight Obama’s climate agenda at every turn, sources familiar with the efforts say.
This is the same McConnell who essentially surrendered to Obama on the Iran deal, rather than fighting on. This is the same McConnell who has consistently surrendered to Obama and the Democrats. I have zero confidence that he won’t do the same here.
McConnell himself warned foreign leaders last spring to “proceed with caution before entering into a binding, unattainable deal†with Obama, noting that “two-thirds of the U.S. federal government” — Congress and the Supreme Court — hasn’t signed off on the president’s plans.
McConnell has about the same credibility as Obama does on foreign policy: none. The majority of Americans are against the Iran deal, wanted the Senate to vote on it, and wanted the Senate to kill the deal. McConnell washed his hands of the whole affair. Why wouldn’t we think he would do the same with anything that comes out of the Paris “climate change” meetings?
These new radical Republicans will even go overseas to hurt America… There are no ideas anymore in the fetid swamp that passes for Republican thought.
In other words, Jeffery feels that it is acceptable for Obama to make lopsided agreements with foreign governments that hurt the United States but it is wrong for other political leaders and elected officials to stop those agreements.
You gotta love the hypocrisy and stupidity of leftists like Jeffery.
In other words, gc sees nothing wrong with radical members of Congress interfering with Administration negotiations with foreign governments by directly trying to influence foreign governments.
If Democrats did this, the Repugs would be crying “Logan Act!” before the phone call ended. Oh, they already did, that’s right. I guess it’s easier for the radicals to make secret deals with foreigners than to do the peoples’ work and actually pass a bill.
You gotta love the hypocrisy and stupidity of radicals like gc.
To quote further from the article:
In 1998, the Senate passed, unanimously, a “sense of the Senate” resolution, asking President Clinton not to sign the then-being-negotiated Kyoto Accords, because they would be harmful to the United States. Mr Clinton sent Vice President Gore to Japan to sign the treaty anyway, but then declined to send it to the Senate for a ratification vote, which he knew would result in a defeat. President Bush then withdrew the United States’ signature from Kyoto, which, in my opinion, was the wrong thing to do: he should have submitted it to the Senate for a ratification vote, knowing that the Senate would defeat it.
And now, our esteemed President Obama is trying another end-run around the Congress, a Congress directly elected by the people, because he knows that the Congress won’t approve his ridiculous schemes. The leftist fascist Jeffrey probably thinks that’s just fine, but the reality is simple and clear: without Congressional approval, all that our 44th President can do is use executive orders, which add expenses to the American people, but wouldn’t be effective in doing anything about
global warmingclimate change even if you believe that is happening and anything could be done about it if it is.It is my sincerest hope that, come January 20, 2017, a new Republican President will cancel every last executive order issued by Barack Hussein Obama, and bring this country back to a representative democracy.
Yeah, we have never seen a radical like Obama circumvent Congress.
Oh wait. He does.
Once again Jeffery shows his hypocrisy and then tries to blame others for his bias.
McConnell has a backbone as solid as overcooked pasta and will fight with all the strength of wet Kleenex. As usual.
Yup, I’m pretty sure the Constitution says somewhere that only the president is allowed to speak to people from other countries.
Seriously, the Constitution says that the president is supposed to make treaties with “the advice and consent of the Senate”. How can they give “advice” if they are not allowed to be part of the process?
jay,
Check out, 18 U.S. Code § 953 – Private correspondence with foreign governments
The agreement to come out of Paris is not a treaty.
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Good luck with that. It’s just about impossible for a radical Republican to win a fair election on the national level. Note I said “fair” election.
jay,
Check out, 18 U.S. Code § 953 – Private correspondence with foreign governments
The agreement to come out of Paris is not a treaty.
Dana typed:
Good luck with that. It’s just about impossible for a radical Republican to win a fair election on the national level. Note I said “fair” election.
There is much discussion as to whether the Congressmen violated this act for several reasons. First is that the letter was signed by many – not just “an individual.” Secondly it is clear that the Senate has the ability to be involved with foreign relationships, treaties and to some extent, agreements. Lastly, the letter did not attempt to interfere with the agreement but simply informed the Iranian government of the form of government here in the US.
That is correct. Because it is an agreement, it is not binding to the US.
gc,
Not sure what you’re babbling on about… actually you cut and pasted without attribution, but that’s OK.
This excerpt was certainly not related to climate change but to Tom Cotton’s ill-advised open letter to Iran.
I like the idea of giving Congressional Repubs a voice, but when was the last time they said anything reasonable? They want to dismantle the EPA, invade Iran and pull the US out of the UN. They are radicals.
Jeffrey calls persons radicals who oppose Obama. Isn’t Obama a former community organizer who taught from Alinky’s text Rules for Radicals.
Obama was the MOST radical senator whose voting record was to the left of Bernie Sanders, an avowed socialist.
Jeffrey you are the pot calling the kettle black.
Lies, rumors of a Republican spine are RNC propaganda, their votes say otherwise.$1,700,000,000.00 for carbon tax global warming propaganda http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=2&vote=00353
The RNC is owned by the DNC, shameless lying whores.