Thankfully the Chinese and the Indians (the ones in India, not the ones in John Wayne movies) still have their wits about them - no surprise, seeing as how they declined hits from the Hopium Hookah. According to Investor’s Business Daily, the aforementioned nations will likely opt out of Kyoto Part Deux when the industrialized nations of the world meet in Copenhagen this December.

Following a deal signed late Thursday between China and India, anything we might agree to do in Copenhagen is likely moot anyway. The two mega-nations — which together account for nearly a third of the world’s population — said they won’t go along with a new climate treaty being drafted in Copenhagen to replace the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012.

They’re basically saying no to anything that forces them to impose mandatory limits on their output of greenhouse gas emissions. Other developing nations, including Mexico, Brazil and South Africa, will likely reject any proposals as well.

The deal was already in trouble. Three weeks ago, the Group of 77 developing nations met in Thailand to discuss what they wanted to do about global warming. Their answer: nothing.

William Hawkins, writing in the American Thinker, quotes a piece in China’s Science Times journal that sums up how China — and other developing nations — feel:

“Why do the developed countries put an arguable scientific problem on the international negotiations table?” the article’s author, Wang Jin, asks. “The real intention is not for the global temperature increase, but for the restriction of the economic development of the developing countries.”

They see clearly what the rest of us seem to miss — that, for all its bad science, the Copenhagen Conference is about the world’s Lilliputians tying down its Gullivers, not about global warming at all.

So, thanks to China and India, Copenhagen is dead — just as Kyoto was when it was signed in 1992, though no one knew it at the time. Without them, no global treaty on climate change will be workable.

Poor Man-Child…the guy just can’t catch a break now that the rest of the world (at least the part that still has any sanity) realizes what a joke he really is.

First he travels all the way to Europe to beg and plead on behalf of Chicago for the 2016 summer Olympic games. The IOC laughed and gave the nod to Brazil, leaving Obambi to skulk back to D.C. while the Klingon Princess wiped the egg off his face.

Then the Nobel Committee - in what appears to be a fit of Euroweenie pique - commited seppuku by awarding the Peace Prize to the Man-Child in much the same manner an overindulgent grandparent gives a child a cookie with the expectation that the little fartling will eat all his vegetables come suppertime. Even Obama had to admit that he did nothing to deserve the award and knows fully well when he heads to Stockholm on December 10 to receive his “prize,” the world will be even farther from anything resembling peace than it is today.

The fact that the Nobel awards ceremony will take place while the Copenhagen conference is underway is what makes the whole spectacle so schadenfreudelicious: according to FOX News, the Man-Child has no plans to attend what will essentially be a diplomatic post mortem, insofar as there will be too much yolk on his face after accepting what the educated and informed world now regards as the equivalent of the infamous gold-star awarded by guilt-ridden teachers to underachieving students to make them both feel better about their mediocrity.

From the look of things, the Klingon Princess will need plenty of moist towelettes for the return trip home on Air Force One.

Obviously, the Man-Child is already aware of China’s and India’s rejection of the proposed treaty. At this point I believe he’s resigned himself to the fact that there is no way in hell the U.S. Senate will ever ratify it - idiots like Al “Stuart Smalley” Franken and Olympia “I’m Frick, not Frack” Snowe to the contrary notwithstanding.

For that reason alone keep your attention focused on the Waxman-Markey Cap & Trade Bill. You can expect the Man-Child to double down on C&P and put the thumbscrews to any recalcitrant Blue Dogs in coal-rich states who know their constituents will politically lynch them in 2010 if they vote in favor of it. If Obama can’t rely on the world to destroy the U.S. economy, he’s damned well determined that we’ll do it ourselves.

Unfortunately - for him and the entire Democrat Party, that is - America is waking up from its November political drinking binge. Much like a college freshman, who suddenly realizes upon stirring from his slumber, that he spent the night with the coyote-ugliest skank on the campus, the people of this nation are beginning to understand the implications of drinking spiked Kool-Aid.

The difference is that it won’t be their arm that gets chewed off in 2010.