Even a poodle receives a bone once in a while.

I concur with David Corn on this:

I almost--almost--felt sorry for Tony Blair, as I watched him on the telly this morning trying to sell the G8 agreement that was more disappointment than achievement. He did his best not to sugarcoat the agreement, but he still couldn't stop the spin (to mix a metaphor). He said that progress on global warming was made because he was able to coax George W. Bush into a "dialogue" on the matter and because Bush signed the communique which declared that global warming is a serious issue and that "we know enough to act now." Well, Bush may know enough to act, but he still has adamantly refused to take any significant action to address global warming--even though he promised to do so after rejecting the Kyoto accord in 2001. The Bush administration--perhaps reluctantly--has already acknowledged that global warming is real and requires action. True, once in a while an energy company lobbyist working within its ranks rewrites a report to say global warming ain't much to fret about, but officially the administration accepts the premise that it is a problem requiring a remedy. Yet Bush has done nothing to develop an effective remedy. Thus, Blair achieved nothing, vis a vis his pal from Washington, at this G8 on this critical issue, no matter how nicely Blair spins the agreement. Only goes to show: you can go to war for this fellow--even though your own foreign secretary says the primary case is "thin"--and you can assume enormous political risk in order to help him, and you will get nada in return. Even a poodle receives a bone once in a while.