How The GOP Rolls

Remember when anytime a Democrat went overseas during the last administration, it was "undermining President Bush's authority to conduct foreign policy"?  It was a ridiculous charge, but cries of "criticism of the President should stop at the borders" was a cry often leveled by Republicans.

Those cries are now forgotten with The Kenyan Usurper Other in the White House, as Digby notes.

House Republicans are preparing for a trip to Copenhagen and looking to derail Democratic efforts to negotiate an international climate agreement.

About a half-dozen Republicans will make the trip to Denmark to oppose plans for cap-and-trade legislation, express their discontent with the scientific community that researches climate change and call for the United Nations to halt any negotiations until the academic scandal known as “Climategate” is resolved.

At least Texas Rep. Joe Barton, the ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, along with Republican Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, Darrell Issa of California and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee are making the trip.

House Republican leaders Tuesday laid out their plans for the U.N. climate conference, which will be to essentially buck all Democratic climate-change platforms.

If you can name a time where a Democratic delegation of Congress went abroad to an international treaty gathering with the specific, pre-stated goal of attacking a Republican President's foreign policy position when representing the United States overseas, then please, by all means, let me know what it was.
"Totally unacceptable" doesn't begin to describe this.  "Outright unconstitutional" comes close.  As Digby says:

I don't think I've ever heard of a group of political opponents going to a foreign country to confront the president when he's representing the nation. It's kind of startling. I'm not a big fan of the rules that call for royal deference to presidents, but you do have to let the country speak with one voice in certain situations, and the constitution anticipates that when it comes to dealing with foreign governments that voice should be the president's subject to ratification by the people's representatives. To personally go to Copenhagen and publicly argue with the president as he's negotiating a treaty is truly radical.

There are no rules save "Obama must be attacked."  There's no such thing as respect for the office, or respect for the man from these people.  They don't even think he's an American citizen, let alone the legitimate President.
Didn't you know that the Republicans really won in 2008?