White House: GOP "Not Qualified" To Vote On Climate Treaty Because They'd Vote No

by JASmius



Outcome-based ratification:

In a striking sign of contempt for the Constitution....

The latest sign of contempt, you mean.

....the White House Tuesday said the right of Congress to weigh in on an international agreement should be judged by the views lawmakers have on the issue.

This is approximately like saying, You get to vote if you vote the way I want.

That's precisely what they're saying.  Which is why they'll never submit it to the Senate for review or ratification, but are simply going to shove it down our throats, same as they do with everything else.

The White House’s, uh, "groundbreaking" interpretation of the Constitution was included in an exchange between Shannon Bream of Fox News and White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest about the right of the Senate to consider an international climate deal that United States is negotiating.

According to The Hill, Earnest’s comments are “directed at lawmakers such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX21), who have all insisted that the international agreement the U.N. is working on is a treaty and cannot be enforced without Senate approval.”

It's not a question of insisting on it; that is, definitionally, what it is.

The topic arose because the White House Tuesday had pledged to cut U.S. emissions 26-28% by 2025 from 2005 levels....

i.e. pledged to commit economic seppuku.

....as part of the emerging pact.

Which, by the way, is fantasy in the absence of a literal, outright Soviet-style communist dictatorship.  Which is yet another clear indicator of the Obama coup de tat that is on the way in the next year and change.

But, while we still can, let us recall Article II, Section 2, Clause 2:

He (the president) shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur and have reasonable opinions on the matter.

Oh, wait a second, that's the Obamunized version.  I should have recognized it by the crayon scribbling in the margins.

Let's try that again:

He (the president) shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;

Man, that old, yellowed piece of parchment has some novel ideas.  Too bad we can't give 'em a try, huh?  Even if it wouldn't "de-carbonize" the U.S. economy into genocidal famine in ten years.