The Obama administration is working with the United Nations on a climate change agreement and reportedly has no plans to keep Congress in the loop:
In preparation for this agreement, to be signed at a United Nations summit meeting in 2015 in Paris, the negotiators are meeting with diplomats from other countries to broker a deal to commit some of the world’s largest economies to enact laws to reduce their carbon pollution. 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.
Part of the agreement would allow the U.N. to publicly “call out” countries they deem threats to the environment, including the United States. Dana Perino doesn’t like the sound of that:
The UN will eat this up. Just eat it up! Name & shame the USA in front of the UN on climate change? Say it ain't so. http://t.co/tB3zs86K26
— Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) August 27, 2014
Incredible.
@DanaPerino this is such Bull$hit!
— GoAskaMomma (@GoAskaMomma) August 27, 2014
@DanaPerino That is directly treason is it not; conspiring with foreign nations to subvert the powers of congress
— The Tinfoil Tricorn ?? (@TinfoilTricorn) August 27, 2014
@DanaPerino Serious Question with a collaborating justice dept. & partisan legislature & judicial system how do you stop this type of action
— R Johnson (@RAJnIowa) August 27, 2014
@DanaPerino And he attempts to go around congress again. #Socialist #terrorists
— Robert The Patriotic Nationalist ??? #NRA (@f480volt) August 27, 2014
https://twitter.com/SteelersSlob/status/504466039770742784
@DanaPerino when you take any constitutional consequences off the table expect @BarackObama 2 do what he wants. 2 hell with the rule of law
— Gary Carlo (@GaryACarlo) August 27, 2014
@DanaPerino Honestly, I'm so mortified w/events last few yrs, I don't know if I or our country can be shamed more. No effect now
— kaycee (@kmecf) August 27, 2014
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The Obama administration’s plan to skirt Congress on a climate change agreement with the U.N. made National Review’s Jim Geraghty and others take notice of Obama’s governing style preference:
Perhaps Obama seems so disinterested in the presidency lately because he would rather govern as a king: http://t.co/CsU1TZ6Ouo
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) August 27, 2014
King Obama! RT @thehill: Obama looks to skip the Senate on new U.N. #climatechange deal http://t.co/cqIsquBPjL by @jessebyrnes
— Heather Marie (@hfearny) August 27, 2014
https://twitter.com/mattstat/status/504424373927677952
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