Obama Plans to Sell Out U.S. On Climate Change

Don't pay any attention to the fact that global warming is a fraud, just go ahead and make promises the American people won't let you keep:

President Barack Obama will travel to Copenhagen for climate-change talks, where he’ll offer to cut U.S. emissions about 17 percent by 2020 in an effort to help break a deadlock between rich and poor nations.

Obama will visit the Danish capital on Dec. 9 during negotiations on a global climate treaty. The U.S. will propose cutting its emissions “in the range of 17 percent” from 2005 levels by 2020, Carol Browner, Obama’s top adviser on energy and the environment, told reporters yesterday. It will be the first time the U.S. has offered such a target.

U.S. legislation backed by Obama to cut greenhouse gases and establish a market for the trading of pollution allowances passed the House in June and then stalled in the Senate. Administration officials said they aren’t going to Denmark empty-handed and Obama’s attendance will send a strong signal.

“The president going to Copenhagen will give positive momentum to the negotiations,” Michael Froman, Obama’s deputy national security adviser for international economics, told reporters yesterday. “We think it will enhance the prospects for success.”

Uh...no. Given the firestorm currently underway over ClimateGate, the slim prospect of cap-and-trade in the Senate is now pretty much dead. Even the RINO Republicans aren't going to want to sign on to that turkey.