Republicans Are Now Subverting President Obama’s Climate Policies in Other Countries
Here we go again, folks. Republicans are impotent to stop President Obama from implementing his strategies to deal with climate change so they’re now trying to sabotage his efforts with other countries: Climate Change: Republicans Plan Attack on Pact.
Top Republican lawmakers are planning a wide-ranging offensive — including outreach to foreign officials by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office — to undermine President Barack Obama’s hopes of reaching an international climate change agreement that would cement his environmental legacy.
The GOP strategy, emerging after months of quiet discussions, includes sowing doubts about Obama’s climate policies at home and abroad, trying to block key environmental regulations in Congress, and challenging the legitimacy of the president’s attempts to craft a global agreement without submitting a treaty to the Senate.
A top policy aide to McConnell (R-Ky.) has had conversations with a select group of representatives from foreign embassies to make it clear that Republicans intend to fight Obama’s climate agenda at every turn, sources familiar with the efforts say.
It’s bad enough that these people subvert efforts to deal with climate change in the United States — it’s horrible, in fact — but it’s simply inexcusable that they’re actually trying to undercut the office of the Presidency by appealing directly to foreign countries. The anti-science Republican Party has become a danger to the entire world.
