I just caught this gem by Andrew Curry in the Spectator May 4th, courtesy of Benny Peiser’s CCNet:

“In the next six weeks, expect a concerted effort behind the scenes to convince the Bush administration to move on climate change. Merkel will be praying for a breakthrough at the G8 conference in Heiligendamm, a seaside resort in Merkel’s home province of Mecklenburg. If not, Germans and the rest of Europe will have no choice but to put U.S.-European relations on a back burner until 2009 and perhaps longer.”

Got that? Our way or the highway, Mac. No rationing, no relations! We’ll just hold our breath — with maybe a few more foot stomps tossed in for measure — until a president comes along who will do to you what we’ve done to ourselves. (Hint: it’s gonna be a while, meine freunde).

Sort of makes one pine for the old multilateralism and feel-good diplomacy of Bush’s first term.