LET'S SEE DEMOCRATS RUN ON TRANSFERING US TAX DOLLARS TO THE CHICOMS:

Summit Is Seen as U.S. Versus China (JEFFREY BALL, 12/14/09, WSJ)

The International Energy Agency projects that nearly all the growth in global greenhouse-gas emissions over the next two decades will come from developing countries -- and that fully half of that total will come from China alone. A central point of contention here is whether China, amid all its newfound economic might, still deserves billions of dollars in annual aid from the U.S. and Europe to help it shift to a cleaner pattern of growth.

China says the answer is yes. He Yafei, China's vice foreign minister, said on Friday that rich nations, which built their prosperity on fossil fuels, are like people who go out for a fancy dinner and then, when a poor guest arrives late for dessert, demand that he pay the same bill for his meal as everyone else.

"It's not fair," Mr. He said. "Whoever created this problem, they're responsible," he said. Although he said the European Union had largely lived up to its emission-reduction promises, he singled out the U.S. several times by name as a country that hadn't done its share.

Even if the teleprompter is displaying the queen of diamonds the UR can't try to sell that to the electorate.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 14, 2009 6:02 AM