Sycophants and Sissies

That's the Left's favorite roleplaying game. They've tried to cast President Bush as headliner on Bill Clinton's World Apology Tour. Fortunately, there are men made of sterner stuff:

Perhaps a greater cause for concern is England, which has been our steadfast ally in the effort to unseat Saddam and bring a whiff of freedom to Middle Eastern air. Prime Minister Blair, who represents a Liberal political movement, is motivated to wrest some concessions from our President to cash in the chips accrued by that fealty. In so doing, he hopes to achieve the auxiliary benefit of convincing his nation's wry culture mavens that he is not Bush's "poodle."

Naturally, we would like nothing more than to be accommodating. As the old Persian king said to Queen Esther, "ask up to half of the kingdom and it will be done." Even if Blair wants us to be open to the idea of importing fried fish, which would cause half the United States Customs Service to resign and write tell-all books, there might be room to talk. The kicker is that of all the cockamamie things that he could take as valuable door prizes, he seems to have set his little liberal heart on Uncle Sam giving his avuncular nod to the Kyoto protocols.

Those were the product of all the mendicant nations of the world, the almoners, the beggars, the solicitors, the organ-grinders and the all-purpose schnorrers gathering in Kyoto a decade ago to penalize the United States for using too well the resources of the Earth. This excess is said to have caused Global Warming, a prospect that shivering citizens of the U.S. Northeast and Midwest may regard with some joy but which, if not soon curbed, will cause our fragile planet -- any day now -- to be charred down to a sizzling scree of embers and cinders.