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To: pabianice

Lame-duck republicans like Olympia Snowe, Richard Lugar and (hopefully) Orrin Hatch will help him. They love this crap.

Treaties are not permanent. The president can abrogate a treaty, though I doubt Romney would have to stones to do it.


5 posted on 05/08/2012 6:36:00 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706
Speak of the devil....just down thread

Heritage Foundation ^ | April 30, 2012 | Lachlan Markay

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is lobbying for the Senate to ratify a treaty that would undermine American sovereignty and damage the country economically – incidentally, characterizations that Lott himself has advanced. During his time in the Senate, Lott vehemently opposed the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, also known as the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), saying it would create a “U.N. on steroids” that “would undermine U.S. military operations … and impair navigational rights” by subjecting maritime disputes to U.N. .......

7 posted on 05/08/2012 6:38:47 AM PDT by chiller (Elect another batch of TPartiers and it won't matter which R we elect. WE will lead.)
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To: cotton1706

He will try to do as much damage as he can so the next congress will have to spent an inordinate amount of time repairing damage instead of solving our economic problems.


9 posted on 05/08/2012 6:41:06 AM PDT by ibytoohi
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To: cotton1706

That’s what I’m concerned that Romney will not have enough pressure to do anything about it. Unless the American people are made aware of how serious this treaty is and how much constitutional rights we will be losing to these foreigners all because of the likes of Hillary Clinton and Obama and the Liberals!


29 posted on 05/08/2012 7:17:33 AM PDT by classified
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