Bill Clinton REFUSED To Sign the Kyoto Accord Because "It Would Hurt America"?

Question

Why do People get on Bush's case, but did NOT show as much animosity towards Clinton concerning the treaty?

Doesn't Clinton deserve just as much blame? Will Hillary do the same as Bill did --- absolutely NOTHING!

Answer 1

Go for it, Duck! You're so on top of things. Two Thumbs Up. Way up!

Answer 2

Gore signed it as a replace in an empty gesture. notably damn sharp do no longer you think of of? Going against the President, the will of the persons and the Senate who voted unanimously to nor ratify the treaty. Edit - ArgleBargle you're incorrect, Clinton by utilising no ability signed it. From Wikipedia - "The Clinton administration by utilising no ability submitted the protocol to the Senate for ratification." Edit ph yo you would be able to prefer to are remodeling into thumbs down given which you're incorrect. President Clinton warned with regard to the financial harm that getting into into the Kyoto Treaty would desire to reason to the U. S.. He by utilising no ability supported or signed it.

Answer 3

Everyone blasted Clinton when he refused to sign it, ESPECIALLY Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole. Of course, those two would go on TV to blast Clinton if they didn't like the tie he wore that day. Clinton took his lumps for helping HIS campaign contributors, even Democrats were pissed at Clinton over the Kyoto Accord.

But Clinton is no longer in office. Bush, after 6 years, has not signed it either, so the question is not, "how Democrats can love Clinton but hate Bush?", it's, "Why Republicans CANNOT accept Clinton not signing the Kyoto Accord, but CAN accept Bush not signing it, not only accept it, but try to EXCUSE it?" (As you are doing now) You don't find this to be hypocracy at its epitome?

How can Bush say in last year's State of the Union Address, "America is addicted to oil", but in THIS year's, not only doesn't he mention the Kyoto Accord very prominently, but STILL doesn't say whether he supports it or not! How "Flip-Floppy" can a President BE?

Answer 4

Here's the thing, I could criticize Clinton for doing nothing about global climate change (and also about NAFTA by the way) even though I supported him on other things.

The reason we are in so much trouble today is that we have had six years of a Congress that refused to consider or allow discussion of anything that criticized their precious little president.

I get on Bush's case for the same reason I got on Clinton's case. In a democracy, the people are the rulers and the government works for us and we have to keep reminding them.

Answer 5

We shouldn't sign Kyoto. That would be agreeing to sharply restrict people's energy use - commutes, etc... - based on a still unproven theory.

The lemmings need to wake up on this one. There remains no actual direct proof. They can't prove it's something ELSE, but they can't prove what caused most of the prior warming periods that look an awful lot like this one. They can prove however that those warming periods WEREN'T caused by a CO2 increase...

At some point they decided to declare victory - they figured if they repeat "there is no longer any debate" enough, if they repeat "only an idiot wouldn't believe this" enough, they'll fool the intellectually lazy and intimidate most everyone else into signing on.

Sorry - I'm neither intellectually lazy nor capable of being intimidated. Before you start tripling the price of power and doubling the price of my commute, thereby forcing me to move closer to work, away from my third floor unit on the seashore, I'd like the courtesy of PROOF that my commute and power use materially contributes to this most recent of countless warming trends.

Answer 6

A lot of people do not like President Bush so they want to lay all the USA problems on him!!! Clinton caused a lot of the problems when he was in office because he refused to do anything about them!!!! We defiantly do not need Hillary in office we already know what a Clinton will do! Nothing!!!! Just my opinion!!!!

Answer 7

The reason that they choose to criticize President Bush and not Bill Clinton is for one simple reason.....Party politics. How many times have you noticed that the Democrats make a huge fuss over how something is not good and then they present that same idea once they are in office like its something new. There is a reason that they are referred to as the party of no ideas

Answer 8

All Dems are made of Teflon- Steal and destroys docs? you get a ticket- Have 90K in freezer, you get a warning. Bill Clinton could have robbed banks and raped women- - well he did the latter, and got away without any criticism. The left cry like newborns if you ever deign to criticize them.

Answer 9

Let's go Biblical ... this is one (GW) Bush who burns while we all get consumed. Forget about blame think about igniting the human flame - because as we point one finger at others, we point three at ourselves. NO-one is to blame but we are all responsible - it's the collective decisions of all of us lazy, habit-prone so-called Homo sapiens who routinely talk big on the environment but deliver shallow. Mr Clinton proved he is a politician with his fingers on the polls rather than the pulse of our ecosystems. Politicians should recall Shimon Peres' admonition "polls are delicious to smell but dangerous to swallow". The real global warming should be compassion expressed as social capital and a commitment to economy earthed in ecology, not political expediency.

Answer 10

Foreign TREATIES such as what Kyoto was and was always referrred to in teh media until Bush took office, can only be ratified by CONGRESS, trying to implement them from the White House is a breach of the seperation of powers act. Fact remains China
s buring coal dumps and abandonned mines are still the major man made natural source of "green house gas", the earth emits 210 billion tons of gas annually from the land and oceans compared to man's 3 billion, a 1 ton carbon allowance for every person in the USA would be like only allowed the energy to run your electric stove 6 hrs a day for ten months, no hot water, lights, furnace, woodstove, and you have to walk or ride a bike. Yeah, I'm all for that so that developing countries can build ten or so coal fired power plants a week. I'm not against alternative energy, I'm for it 100%, but the nimbys and enviromentalists stop every such developement they can in this country, just like they did after Nixon stumped for stopping our dependence on foreign oil, and we ended up held hostage by the oil companies years later because no one listened. It's gonna be deja'vous all over again PDQ. Tree cores and sediment studies show the climate has always changed on this planet, and rapidly not gradual, and teh scientists paid to promote global warming carefully pick the years of weather data they use and won't show their homework calculations, we are too accept just their final result. I have one for you, one major volcanic eruption or meteor/comet event, and we will be struggling to grow crops, keep cattle alive and not freeze to death, and right now our only option in one of those cases, with a proven history of occurence and as extinction level events, is pray. there are castles built in Scotland they used to dock boats at until the "mini-ice age" dropped teh water levels, so they'll appreciate have the oceans come back up. People who build on poor locations (like floodeed parts of New Orleans) can expect it will happen again, same for those in the path of hurricanes. It's not an "act of God" it's an act of humans thinking we are more powerful than nature. I believe teh climate is changing, I doubt man is more than a flea on a dog when it comes to effecting a big planet, and even if global warming was man's fault (and not just a hotter sun as other planets indicate), I doubt you could get all of humanity to work together. those building up their militaries right now being the least likely to cooperate, and yes, I mean CHINA and RUSSIA. As for Bill signing anything, I heard Dick Morris on Hannity & Colmes last night (I only watched it because they said they would answer questions about Bergerlizing the classified records at national archives) that Clinton couldn't sign on to killing Bin Laden because the impeachment had left him castrated, good excuse for lacking the qualities needed as commander in chief:P

Answer 11

She won't act on anything that might hurt her ultimate political far left wing agenda. She is a far left wolf in moderate clothing.

Not for nothing but enough scandal has been in the whitehouse and I would hate to be reminded of the things my children heard her husband say on national TV.

He deminished our nations morality by desensitizing our youth to the thought of oral sex and adultery.

I'd prefer to forget rather than be reminded of his last years in office. As I believe most Americans will agree if looked at from this viewpoint.