OPINION/COMMENTARY

New Legislation Is a Disguise for Kyoto Protocol

When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen. That's the tag from a highly successful advertising campaign that ran 20 years ago for the brokerage firm, you guessed it, E.F. Hutton. Today, the same might be said in the political world of Sen. Robert Byrd, a hard core, old-timey Democrat whose rhetoric regularly reflects disdain for traditional American values and principles -- but who nonetheless does not shy from pulling out Old Glory to fly legislation he proudly references as "made-in-America." Okay, Sen. Hutton, we're listening. At the very least, clarification of what "made-in-America" means to a leftist Democrat should prove enlightening. And enlightening it is; true to form, "made-in-America" is Democrat code for "made-for-the-U.N." Introduced April 11 by Byrd was S. 745, a "forward thinking, made-in-America action plan" also known as the International Clean Energy Deployment and Global Energy Markets Investment Act of 2005. That Sen. John Kerry is one of five co-sponsors is illuminating in itself. More insightful, however, is the text of this measure and its push, much to the pleasure of the international community, no doubt, for climate change regulation and cooperation with foreign nations on climate change issues. It's not quite Kyoto, but it sure does come close....

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