Kerry Signs UN Arms Treaty - Still Doesn't Matter

So, the ever so horrifying UN Arms Treaty (that every gun forum talks about like the boogie man), is indeed going to be signed. John Kerry, our injection molded Secretary of State, says he'll sign the controversial treaty. This of course led to a huge response from all manner of gun forums suggesting that the UN will be rolling tanks in any day now.

Returning to reality - Kerry signing the treaty doesn't mean anything. Really, nothing, not a thing. He can sign whatever he wants but if the congress doesn't ratify the treaty, then it doesn't matter; and the congress has already shown that they have no intention of ratifying it. So is this much ado about nothing?

Well, kinda'. The real question is why Kerry is signing a treaty that he knows has no chance of being ratified, and hence is totally meaningless. Is it for the sake of appearances? The democratic party desperately wants some kind of victory on gun control after the bashing they took trying to pass the AWB earlier in the year. Well, the treaty isn't any kind of victory since it won't do anything so that's probably not it.

So, if they know it's not going to be ratified, why sign it if it won't make them look good. Easy - they think it will make the political right look bad. Signing the treaty is their "oh look, we tried". It's a setup so they can claim that they were going to "end arms trafficking worldwide" and the "evil Republicans" stopped them.

It's fun when you get to see the propaganda forming while it's still in the pupa stage isn't it.  

Here's the best part, this won't help them at all. The general public doesn't care about this stuff in the least; so the only people who this would "impress" are their core constituents. What does that mean? It means that their base has lost interest, they're disenchanted with an administration that (thus far) has been an unmitigated failure.

To be fair, I can't say I blame them for losing interest. After all, the administrations signature legislation is either going to be gutted or repealed completely, their attempts to push gun control have been a joke, and their economic "stimulus" has largely been revealed as no more than a payoff to supporters (vis a vi Solyndra).

In summation:
Treaty is a carrot held in the faces of the liberal base in a vain attempt to encourage them - it does nothing, it means nothing, it will do nothing. Relax, take a breath, move on.