Not content with undercutting the President and
sabotaging America’s foreign policy, Senate Republicans are planning a
new treasonous act of sabotage against an Obama led potential global
change agreement.
The Wall Street Journal reported, “The White House
considers the agreement with nearly 200 nations a historic opportunity
to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions world-wide. But some GOP senators
view it as executive overreach, and they are quietly considering ways to
warn other countries that the president doesn’t speak for them and may
not be able to deliver on his promises to slash emissions.”
The only lesson that Senate Republicans appear to
have taken away from their letter to Iran is that they need to keep
their plots to undercut the President quiet. Look for the Senate
Republicans to avoid releasing a public letter. They may use the same
strategy and issue a letter, but they will try to sneak it a bit more
under the radar.
Senate Republicans are setting themselves up for an
even stronger backlash since they will be not only sabotaging President
Obama, but also defying the global scientific consensus.
As if it wasn’t bad enough that climate change
denying Republicans embarrass their fellow Americans at home, they are
now considering humiliating the entire nation on a global scale.
Opposing an international agreement on climate
change has nothing to do with the actual science. The Republican
opposition is rooting in protecting corporate polluters who are
destroying the planet combined with a desire to politically damage and
embarrass a president that they irrationally despise.
Any Senate Republican plan to undercut Obama on
climate change will backfire. It is also an unwise strategy to make
climate change denial an issue in the 2016 election. Republicans need to
attract moderates to win back the White House, and science denial only
serves to reinforce to these voters why they should support Democrats.
The
big message is clear. Senate Republicans will continue their campaign
of treasonous sabotage until President Obama leaves office.
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