| The Climate Hot Potato |
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| Written by Chris Horner, CEI | |
| Tuesday, 29 January 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 2 As
with the global warming advocate who attributes each weather event –
hot or cold, wet or dry – to his creed, there’s nothing like starting
one’s day off having your beliefs or assumptions affirmed. So it was when I picked up today’s Washington Post,
turning to its editorials confident that the lead piece would feature
some angst over the lack of promises made about global warming to-dos
in last night’s SOTU speech.
Lo and behold, despite the many weighty issues of our time and addressed last night, in true self-parody fashion the Post laments in its ultimate paragraph: “But the greatest disappointment of the night was his failure to commit to working with Congress on legislation to create a mandatory carbon emissions reduction system in the United States -- without which no international accord will be possible.” Wow. That's disappointment, but its expression is notable not so much for intimating that the U.S. enhances its bargaining position by adopting in advance some version of what we are asking others to adopt in return for our acquiescence; thank goodness WaPo editorial writers aren’t doing our negotiating for us (again/yet). No, most instructive is the mindset betrayed by this appeal, which is also apparent in the halls of Congress: Bush must take ownership of this issue before he leaves office. |
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