The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof has a pretty good article on the Democrats and their less-than-wise opposition to the Colombia free trade pact. I encourage you to read it. However, it was this little slam at the end that got my blood pressure up a bit.

One of President Bush’s most costly actions was his flat rejection of the Kyoto climate treaty; it symbolized a my-way-or-the-highway approach that bolstered anti-Americanism around the world.

I submitted this response to Kristof -- we'll see if he publishes it.

You mean the Kyoto Treaty that President Clinton never sent to the Senate after it voted 95-0 in an advisory vote saying they wouldn't ratify it? That Kyoto treaty? And it's all Bush's fault that everyone hates the U.S. because he was too honest to perpetuate a fiction?

How has that Kyoto thing worked out anyhow? How many signatory countries have met their commitments under that treaty?

How about China and India? Has that Kyoto Treaty managed to get them to cut back on their CO2 emissions?

And you were doing so well right up until the point when you decided you had to throw in a gratuitous and deceptive slam at President Bush.