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clipped from www.qando.net World in recession? Check. Wheels coming off the science of AGW? Check. High unemployment continuing to rise? Check. 2010 an election year? Check. Senate historically opposed to international treaties that hurt the economy? Check. Great – why not go to the UN’s Copenhagen treaty summit and offer some totally unrealistic and probably unachievable cuts in greenhouse gas emissions so we can feel like one of the cool kids? President Barack Obama is considering setting a provisional target for cutting America’s huge greenhouse gas emissions, removing the greatest single obstacle to a landmark global agreement to fight climate change. This is absolutely perfect for the talker-in-chief. Go. Promise. Bask. This is how you turn a useless conference which will most likely never accomplish a thing in reference to its primary goal into one all about the president.