Reply #56: In other words ...

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Bush I signed something that wasn't binding.

Clinton submitted it for ratification, it passed before the repub majority took Congress in '94--although I'd guess with a majority of repubs and a minority of dems voting for it. Then Clinton signed it. This makes it on par with any other law passed by Congress--and now Congress is trying to use a funding trick to prevent implementation. (When * does it--when he faces a law passed by Congress and signed, and then tries to use an shortfall in funds that he himself engineered in order to prevent implementation ... what do we call that? "Good government"?)

Clinton could have held NAFTA and not submitted it for ratification. It's what he did with Kyoto. However, NAFTA was something that he believed was good for the US *and* something he believed would pass. Kyoto ... I'm not sure he believed either was true about Kyoto.