Obama Plotting to Bypass Senate with Global Warming Treaty

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Accountability? The rule of law? The Constitution? Those are for lesser men.

If Obama feels like bombing a country, he bombs it. If he feels like creating a massive border crisis with illegal alien amnesty, he does it. And if he feels like signing on to a treaty, he just ignores the Senate.

Warmunism is more important than the rule of law.

The Obama administration is working to forge a sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, but without ratification from Congress.

Wasn’t it nice when we had three branches of government? Also we had a Constitution and some sort of mechanism for removing power-mad tyrants from power. I believe it sounded something like “impeachment.”

But under the Constitution, a president may enter into a legally binding treaty only if it is approved by a two-thirds majority of the Senate.

To sidestep that requirement, President Obama’s climate negotiators are devising what they call a “politically binding” deal that would “name and shame” countries into cutting their emissions…

“There’s a strong understanding of the difficulties of the U.S. situation, and a willingness to work with the U.S. to get out of this impasse,” said Laurence Tubiana, the French ambassador for climate change to the United Nations. “There is an implicit understanding that this not require ratification by the Senate.”

It figures that it would be the French. They’ve always liked kings and emperors.

American negotiators are instead homing in on a hybrid agreement — 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.

Countries would be legally required to enact domestic climate change policies — but would voluntarily pledge to specific levels of emissions cuts and to channel money to poor countries to help them adapt to climate change. Countries might then be legally obligated to report their progress toward meeting those pledges at meetings held to identify those nations that did not meet their cuts.

“There’s some legal and political magic to this,” said Jake Schmidt, an expert in global climate negotiations with the Natural Resources Defense Council, an advocacy group. “They’re trying to move this as far as possible without having to reach the 67-vote threshold” in the Senate.

In seeking to go around Congress to push his international climate change agenda, Mr. Obama is echoing his domestic climate strategy. In June, he bypassed Congress and used his executive authority to order a far-reaching regulation forcing American coal-fired power plants to curb their carbon emissions. That regulation, which would not be final until next year, already faces legal challenges, including a lawsuit filed on behalf of a dozen states.

The Obama administration’s international climate strategy is likely to infuriate Republican lawmakers who already say the president is abusing his executive authority by pushing through major policies without congressional approval.

The question is will Congress stand up for working Americans, for jobs and the Constitution or will it let Obama’s Green billionaire backers steamroll this through?

  • http://www.clarespark.com/ Clare Spark

    This is all part of the post-apocalyptic mindset that has afflicted the counter-culture since the 19th century at least. I wrote about the pop culture affinity with eco-terrorism here: http://clarespark.com/2014/08/27/the-imagination-going-dark/. “The imagination going dark.”

  • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

    “Updates” to a treaty are the same thing as a new treaty and must be approved by the Senate. Looks like we’re in for even more lawsuits if Obama goes this way.

    • Pete

      After the midterms impeach him

      • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

        I was thinking the same thing.

  • truebearing

    This just more of the Soros/Obama plan to forfeit more US sovereignty to the UN. The treaty is a scam and unenforceable since it violates the US constitution, and the treaty violates the UN Charter by meddling with our constitution. The UN has no jurisdiction and the treaty violates our constitution, so if people refuse to honor the treaty, we have another situation that will lead to a constitutional crisis. Obama is paving as many of those paths as he can.
    Obama is acting as a renegade agent for the UN and as a traitor to the US, yet again. He should be arrested and tried for treason.

  • pookieamos

    It’s about Agenda 21 through and through just as all environmental regulations have been since 1994 ….Is this so called 1992 Treaty from the Rio Earth Summit??? George H.W.Bush signed onto this Treaty with 184 countries which promised under developed nations the wealth of the industrialized countries . However just prior to the ratification vote in the Senate , the United Nation’s Biodiversity map of the future United States was introduced by Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson which STOPPED the vote dead in its tracks….WAKE UP and educate yourself on UN Agenda because it is the end of America in every way…..We are talking about the end of the US Constitution and our rights laid out and enumerated in the Bill of Rights….It is the end of private property rights …It is the end of single family homes and private transportation . It is THE END.

  • notme123

    what’s even more scary and dangerous is, that he is setting precedent by his actions (without the approval of we the people) and in actions(Irs, fast and furious, Bengazai,and others). What can we expect from the next president, especially if it’s a democrat. Also, this is just another way of “spreading” the wealth by giving poorer countries more money, which never reaches the people. And making hypocrites like Al Gore richer. 0 is just securing more money for his retirement.