India to Obama: no sale

Hillary Clinton went to India to persuade the government there to sign on to the Obama administration's drastic and economically crushing agenda to stop "global warming" (or "climate change" or whatever they're calling it now).

India's response? Get stuffed.

July 20 (Bloomberg) -- India won’t bend to demands from the Obama administration or threats from the U.S. Congress to adopt legally binding caps on its carbon emissions, the country’s environment minister told visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday.

“There is simply no case for the pressure” the U.S. is exerting, considering India produces among the lowest per capita emissions in the world, Minister Jairam Ramesh told Clinton during an unexpected discussion of climate negotiations during an event intended to showcase U.S.-Indian cooperation on clean energy at a “green” office building outside New Delhi.

“As if this pressure was not enough, we also face the threat of carbon tariffs on our exports to countries such as yours,” Ramesh said, referring to a climate-change bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on June 26 that imposes tariffs on exports from countries that refuse to adopt greenhouse gas controls by 2020.

Gaius at BCB writes the obvious epitaph:

This was a very clear slap at Obama and at the US House of Representatives and their crap and tax bill. It is also a very clear signal about how the rest of the world sees Obama.

He is not “resetting” anything. He is perceived as a weakling. Otherwise, India would never have blindsided the US secretary of state this way.

Hard to argue that. But I thought everyone would love us now! And this despite that fact that Hillary started off by crawling on her belly like a cold reptile apologizing for the way America has ruined the world until now.