From last night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On the results of the Copenhagen climate-change summit:

I think Copenhagen will go the way of Kyoto, and that means nothing of importance will come out for a simple reason, the American people aren’t stupid — as they said in 1999, by a vote of 97-0 in the Senate to the Clinton administration, they are saying to the Obama administration, and it’s listening.
The American people will not accept an agreement where we have serious cuts in carbon emissions imposed on the United States, which will mean a serious constriction of the U.S. economy, a lowering of our standard of living, if the Chinese (who are the largest CO2 polluters on the planet) and the Indians … do not accept limits, as they will not, because the result of that is (a) there is no effect on warming — whatever coal plant America shuts down, the Chinese and Indians are going to open [another] and so there will be no effect on the climate – and (b) it will, in effect, be a huge transfer of wealth and jobs out of the West, out of the American economy, into China and India.
Adding on to that is the Clinton proposal of a fund of $100 billion a year of which America will ultimately contribute probably a third — it always does in these international agreements — from our treasury, our money from taxpayers, directly into the treasuries of the poorer countries, the majority of whom are kleptocracies, and some of whom like China and India are lenders.
It makes absolutely no sense, and Americans are simply not going to accept that, which is why nothing of importance will we sign out there. . . .
It’s the same story that happened in the late ’90s. If the Chinese and Indians and the others who are developing will not match our cuts, it makes no sense economically or even scientifically — [it] will have no effect on the climate, even if you accept all of the climate science and global warming as a reality.
So it has no [climactic] effect and it is [just] a transfer of wealth. It will never be accepted.
And the Chinese were clear today — they are not interested in arresting their own development on which the legitimacy of the regime depends. It is a dictatorship. It depends on a prosperous nation to stay in power. It is not going to jeopardize that in the name of the speculative warming claims, and if it doesn’t, nothing is going to happen.

On whether Ben Nelson will prevent passage of Obamacare in the Senate:

I don’t [think so]. We heard Nelson say he has a laundry list. It is a Christmas list, and it’s holiday time. He watched Mary Landrieu of Louisiana come home with $300 million, which is now called “the Louisiana purchase,” to get her vote on cloture a couple of weeks ago.
He watched Joe Lieberman — watched Obama and Reid put a stake through the public option and kill it in order to win Lieberman’s vote.
And Nelson has his list.
I’m sure he’s a principled man and I don’t want to sound cynical, but he wants something on abortion. I mean, the more I look at his objections, the distance between what he wants and what is offered is rather narrow. I can’t imagine it can’t be finessed.
And then he says he has other stuff he cares about. Well, I’m sure they’re going to look at the U.S. treasury and find the funds to satisfy his other list, and he will come onboard.
It is inconceivable that over these small differences that one senator is going to hold out for, [they will] kill the whole bill. I may be wrong, but perhaps I’m not cynical enough.

On liberal opposition to a compromise bill:

Well, the ones outside the Congress will be louder and louder, the Howard Deans, the Huffingtons and the other wing nuts will be against it and they will rail.
But if you’re a Democrat in the House, in the Congress, and you’re in the left, and you have a chance, as I’ve said again and again, to seize control of the a sixth of the American economy and you can later amend it and you can fudge it, you are turning insurance companies into utilities, which is a way of getting proxy control of the health care system, this is an opportunity you’re not going to get again.
You’re within an inch of getting it and you’re going to sink it over a public option which is redundant and unnecessary? I think not.