The Associated Press is “reporting”:http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CLIMATE_OBAMA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-12-18-16-35-17 that a deal has been salvaged at Copenhagen after a day of stories about President Obama’s “furious”:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/science/earth/19climate.html?_r=1&hp “efforts”:http://www.politico.com/arena/ to salvage a deal. The Monkey Cage is predicting a rash of comments from pundits about how Obama’s “success”:http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30794.html (or failure) at producing a deal (or “meaningless agreement”:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/science/earth/19climate.html?_r=1&hp) will profoundly change (or have no impact) on the outcome of the health care debate. In response, we urge everyone to take a deep breath and reread “John’s post”:https://themonkeycage.org/2009/12/what_we_have_learned_from_the.html from earlier this week.
