The L.A. Times has a piece on the laughable farce that is the Bush administration climate meetings, which will take place later this week. Some funny quotes:

"It is the first in what we hope will be a series of meetings," said Dan Price, a deputy national security advisor for international economic affairs. "Those are not issues you discuss and resolve in two days."

Well maybe ... uh, how to say this without profanity ... you should have started discussing and resolving before now.

European environment ministers meeting with U.S. senators on Tuesday praised the president for getting involved in the fight to keep average temperatures from climbing so high that droughts, flooding and other upheavals roil the planet and threaten human life.

This is kind of how elementary school teachers praise Johnny the quasi-autistic kid with self-control problems for going a whole week without biting another kid.

"Congress is waking up," [Denmark environment minister Connie] Hedegaard said. She said she was glad, "because we are getting a little bit impatient."

Love that careful diplomatic language.

This one takes the cake, though: