*FOX News First: August 27* *By Chris Stirewalt*
*FAUX REAL: OBAMA TO UNVEIL GLOBAL WARMING ‘TREATY’* Unwilling or unable to work out a deal with either party in the Senate to address his legacy project of an international treaty on global warming, *President Obama* today will unveil a mock version of the pact that would bring new restrictions on U.S. emissions but be enforced globally through peer pressure. NYT <http://email.foxnews.com/t?r=6&c=29839&l=173&ctl=5927B:6086CCEA2269AA7DAF99F416FD8A8101&;>: “…Obama’s climate negotiators are devising what they call a ‘politically binding’ deal that would ‘name and shame’ countries into cutting their emissions. … [The plan is] a proposal to blend legally binding conditions from an existing 1992 treaty with new voluntary pledges. The mix would create a deal that would update the treaty, and thus, negotiators say, not require a new vote of ratification.” Shorter version: The reimagining of an old treaty would allow the administration to further clamp down on U.S. industry but would rely on the promises of other nations for compliance. Because Russia <http://email.foxnews.com/t?r=6&c=29839&l=173&ctl=5927C:6086CCEA2269AA7DAF99F416FD8A8101&;> and China <http://email.foxnews.com/t?r=6&c=29839&l=173&ctl=5927D:6086CCEA2269AA7DAF99F416FD8A8101&;> are totes anxious about “naming and shaming.” Totes. [*Dems use Gore to frack for cash - *Washington Examiner <http://email.foxnews.com/t?r=6&c=29839&l=173&ctl=5927E:6086CCEA2269AA7DAF99F416FD8A8101&;>: “The former vice president was the nominal ‘sender’ of a blast email Tuesday touting President Obama's push to address climate change…”] The United States has rejected every successor treaty to the 1992 UN global warming “framework,” something the second-term Obama administration vowed to reverse, with Secretary of State *John Kerry* calling <http://email.foxnews.com/t?r=6&c=29839&l=173&ctl=5927F:6086CCEA2269AA7DAF99F416FD8A8101&;> global warming “perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.” But Senate Democrats haven’t been interested in joining the fight, staging a symbolic “all-nighter <http://email.foxnews.com/t?r=6&c=29839&l=173&ctl=59280:6086CCEA2269AA7DAF99F416FD8A8101&;>” to seemingly show gratitude to key donors but otherwise have ditched the politically poisonous topic. Unwilling to tangle with his own party on the issue, but desirous of showing some result for disaffected liberal Democrats, the president has decided to go it alone. And that’s got to be music to the ears of Republican Senate candidates like Michigan’s *Terri Lynn Land*, whose latest ad campaign <http://email.foxnews.com/t?r=6&c=29839&l=173&ctl=59281:6086CCEA2269AA7DAF99F416FD8A8101&;> is focused on slashing federal gas taxes. Carbon controls may sound good to the folks on Martha’s Vineyard, but won’t play well in blue states like Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota, let alone the battleground states of Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas, Alaska, North Carolina, Colorado and Louisiana. [“Unfortunately, this would be just another of many examples of the Obama administration’s tendency to abide by laws that it likes and to disregard laws it doesn’t like — and to ignore the elected representatives of the people when they don’t agree” –*Senate Minority Leader **Mitch McConnell **in a statement Tuesday.*] *Why? -* It seems unlikely that the legally questionable effort to further regulate U.S. industries would ever be put into effect. Obama would likely be out of office before the legal challenges could be worked out, and none of his potential successors would want to campaign as a proponent of something that, at best, could be called a workaround. There is the aforementioned base appeal and it may help to further stoke Republican outrage over executive actions, which has a multiplier effect on Democratic donations. But this move, especially when there are obviously more pressing issues on the world stage, looks unlikely to succeed or gain much momentum. The most likely answer is that Obama believes what he says about global warming, which he called a threat to “everything we hold dear -- the laughter of children, a quiet sunset, all the hopes and dreams of posterity.” This is a legacy project, but one that might further ensure that he faces a Republican Senate next year. [*New in Fox News Opinion - John Stossel* takes a look <http://email.foxnews.com/t?r=6&c=29839&l=173&ctl=59282:6086CCEA2269AA7DAF99F416FD8A8101&;> at what the EPA really does: “[T]he EPA spends every day hunting for new things to do, even if its new efforts cost much more and accomplish far less.… instead of environmental regulations that actually save lives, we pay to subsidize politicians’ cronies and pet projects…”] __._,_.___ ------------------------------ Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected]> ------------------------------ Visit Your Group <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmbmRpcmhzBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0MDkxNTAyOTg-> [image: Yahoo! Groups] <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJldXV1bWQ5BF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTQwOTE1MDI5OA--> • Privacy <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html> • Unsubscribe <[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe> • Terms of Use <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/> __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
