The Republican Drama Kings staged yet another angry walkout at the U.N. Climate Change Conference. Why sit and reason when you can get so much more attention by storming out of the room?
The Bushies are always performing irrational outbursts of histrionics at the U.N. They can't help it. They are moody creatures, always at the mercy of raging testosterone. The fitful U.S. delegation is directed by the Hormonal King, himself.
Raging Cheney, of course.
MONTREAL (Reuters):
The United States stood alone in resisting a new, wider agreement to combat climate change on Friday as most industrialized and developing nations moved closer to extending the Kyoto Protocol to curb global warming past 2012.
Think Progress:
The American delegation staged a dramatic walkout last night in a bid to scuttle the entire U.N. climate change conference in Montreal. The theatrics were billed as a protest of Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin’s harmless remarks from Wednesday. (Martin said, “To the reticent nations, including the United States, I say there is such a thing as a global conscience, and now is the time to listen to it.”) Compounding the embarassment, the U.S. delegation actually had to first walk in to the negotiations before they could “walk out,” because they hadn’t been regularly attending the meetings.
U.S. frustrations aren’t based in substance: the U.S. delegation rejected language that was lifted directly from the G8 communiqué that President Bush himself signed in July. Rather, the problem is that this week’s negotiations reinforced that the Bush administration is more isolated than ever in dealing with global climate change. Simply put, the U.S. delegation recognizes that the rest of the world is making progress, and it is pulling out all the stops in order to keep that from happening.
The irrational and "deeply angered" U.S. delegation was "directed from Washington by Vice-President Dick Cheney." While the overwrought neocon delegates performed the high drama games directed by raging Cheney's hormones, environmentalists cheered Canadian Prime Minister Martin's remarks.
UPDATE: "Brushing aside the Bush administration's initial protests, all the industrialized nations except the United States and Australia reached an agreement early Saturday to embark on a fresh round of formal talks aimed at setting new mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions after 2012, when the existing pact known as the Kyoto Protocol expires."
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