Both are extraordinarily difficult, because each member of the voting body (193 countries in Copenhagen; 60 Democrats in Washington) has his own view of what should be done and has way too much pride to agree with anyone else's ideas.
I have every sympathy with the Tuvalu delegate to Copenhagen, who said the other day:
It appears that we are waiting for some senators in the US Congress to conclude before we can consider this issue properly. It is an irony of the modern world that the fate of the world is being determined by some senators in the U.S. Congress.Now that's a distressing thought. Imagine if your fate hinged on people like Tom Coburn and James Inhofe. Posted by Linkmeister at December 18, 2009 03:46 PM | TrackBack
This is another victory for the plutocracy, the Republican party and Joe Liebermann. There will never be, in our lifetime, reasonable health care in this country. We had better face the nasty facts. Ours is not a government "of the people, by the people, for the people". We're just kidding ourselves.
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Posted by: Tom Degan at December 19, 2009 12:29 AMI agree with you, Tom. We're going to continue to make our system more convoluted, more complex, and more expensive until it collapses on itself, all to avoid having a simple universal care system like most of the rest of the industrialized world has, and we're going to spend far more than they do.
Posted by: Harry at December 19, 2009 01:44 PM