On last week’s show (December 11, 2005), we discussed Bill Clinton’s condemnation of the Bush administration at the U.N.’s 11th Annual Climate Change Conference in Montreal. Our environmentally-sensitive former president pronounced President Bush “dead wrong” for opposing the job-killing, pointless Kyoto Protocol. Missing in much of the breathless commentary about the former Prevaricator-in-Chief’s support for this foolish treaty, including Wolf Blitzer’s noting that he received a standing ovation from the enraptured audience, was what seems to be an important fact; that is, Clinton himself never presented this treaty to the Senate for ratification. If he thought it was such a great idea, why not? Maybe it was that 95-0 vote in the Senate, basically sending the message, “are you sure you want to send that up here, Bill? Just in case you’re wondering what might happen, here’s a clue.” That’s why it’s great to be a liberal democrat. Say whatever you want. Do the opposite thing. Never be challenged.

Also missing from much of the coverage was another important fact: even the countries who signed this stupid thing are violating it. As the Wall Street Journal noted last week “[T[hen there is the performance of Kyoto’s signatories in meeting their own targets. Kyoto requires developed nations to bring their total greenhouse-gas emissions to 5% below their 1990 levels by 2012. Yet in 2003, emissions were above the 1990 baseline by more than 10% in Italy and Japan, more than 20% in Ireland and Canada, and more than 40% in Spain.” Check out the whole column here http://www.opinionjournal.com/weekend/hottopic/?id=110007665

Finally, I wonder why we didn’t hear more about the comments from Patrick Moore, who said “I think this whole Kyoto process is a waste of time and money.” Is he some right-wing, neocon, war-mongering, earth-hating disciple of Karl Rove? The illegitmate son of Chimpy McHitler himself? No, actually he’s a founding member of Greenpeace, who left the group because he concluded it turned into a radical leftwing interest group. You can read more of his comments here. http://www.cnsnews.com/Nation/Archive/200512/NAT20051208a.html

Gee, I didn’t see anything about this in the news reports that were virtually canonizing Clinton. What do you suppose would happen if a founding member of the NRA joined up with Sarah Brady? Do you think the MSM would give that any coverage. I think we all know the answer.

Speaking of our MSM friends, don’t you just know they are going to love Greenpeace’s latest propaganda piece, featuring the cute polar bears? The left loves its mascots!
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