I agree. Obama set a goal for the US by executive order, and since it wasn't voluntary, he never needed to ask the Senate for a two-thirds vote to ratify. Though, I highly doubt it would have passed even with a majority of Democrats...similar to Byrd-Hagel after Gore signed Kyoto. Oddly enough, a NYT/CBS poll in 2015 showed that two-thirds of the respondents supported an agreement...if it were legally binding.

I don't think there's any way to force China to do much of anything. Carbon tariffs? Sure, it'd hurt them, but it would damage us just as much. I guess what sticks in my craw is that China comes out of this looking "clever and cool."

Alle Hagel, Dave Brockie!
(promote this if I could, newtman!! TROOF!)

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>> ^Stormsinger:
Wow, an honest, reasonable Republican. I thought we lost the last one of those when Chuck Hagel retired.

We did, the Tom Carper is a Democrat.

Wow, an honest, reasonable Republican. I thought we lost the last one of those when Chuck Hagel retired.

I don't see a problem with saying that nobody reads the legislative language. I only wish that the "plain English" versions were released alongside the legislative language version of every bill. That way, those rare individuals (OCD sufferers?) who actually -can- pull clarity out of the complexity could comb it over and holler about issues that don't match.

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"McCain/Lieberman '08. Vote Judeo-Christian values by voting for a Christian and a Jew!"

Which one am I? ...an Idahoan with insomnia.

>> ^dag:
It would be pretty funny if Obama picked Hagel and McCain picked Lieberman.
Thinker - I do talk to myself at this time of the night when only Aussies, Kuwaitis and Kurazies are up. Which one are you?

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

It would be pretty funny if Obama picked Hagel and McCain picked Lieberman.

Thinker - I do talk to myself at this time of the night when only Aussies, Kuwaitis and Kurazies are up. Which one are you?

I don't think Clintons play nice with others, furthermore I think alot of Americans do not want to see any more old guard players coming in from the past. They need a fresh face for Obama, who should be more conservative.

I wish it was Chuck Hagel. Personally.

Obama is in Kuwait now! He's hanging out with Hagel. That was really good to hear.

Hagel's the man. Too bad being a Republican with integrity gets you hated by Republicans and Democrats alike, or this centrist Vietnam vet might be wearing McCain's shoes.

Since even Democrat Murtha now admits the surge is working despite the protests of RINO Hagel and others, I'm surprised this would be brought up now.

Please, have some more rope, dems.

Hagel, who considered running for the GOP presidential nomination as an antiwar candidate, told the foreign policy experts that he would give the Bush Administration “the lowest grade of any I’ve known.”

“I have to say this is one of the most arrogant, incompetent administrations I’ve ever seen or ever read about,” Hagel said, according to our colleague Robert Kaiser, who attended the speech. In case his audience didn’t get the point, Hagel also said: “They have failed the country.”

- Washington Post

I was very sad as well to hear he had retired... ... we need Chuck Hagel!

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