President Bush has just reaffirmed the unanimous Byrd-Hagel position on a global-warming pact, established by the Senate in 1997 as its (otherwise unsolicited) Article II, Section 2 “advice.”

Let’s see how the warmists portray this — including all three aspiring Oval Office occupants, one of whom was serving in ’97 and voted for the resolution.

It will undoubtedly be galling to the climate alarmists that Mr. Bush has the temerity to flatly state what the establishment media have so far refused to print, “We’re in the lead when it comes to new technologies. We’re in the lead when it comes to global climate change, and we’ll stay that way.”

No no no, the storyline goes: “we need to begin investing in these new technologies before it’s too late!”

The establishment media have strayed from this narrative but once, in a Washington Post piece last fall wonderfully titled “White House Taking Unearned Credit for Emissions Cuts” – a week or so after our emissions reduction was announced. WaPo ran the story with a twin purpose: to say that U.S.-only emissions (suddenly) weren’t important — it’s a global problem that will require global solutions! – and that, even if it is good news, Bush shouldn’t get the credit.