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Lest we forget:

Outer Space Treaty

I have the treaty at thirty five but it won't let the link be posted. It says read only . If permissible, I can post the opening remarks from '02.

[Tunehead54]

Ping! Whose the FReeper you say beats back all the LOST detractors?

[wastedyears]

Could we step out of the treaty at a later date? Or is it binding for all time?

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U.S. Leadership in the World and the Law of the Sea

In April 2007, Senator Lugar and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden asked President Bush to reiterate his support for the treaty.

On May 15, 2007, Senator Lugar wrote an essay on the importance of moving quickly on the Law of the Sea Treaty.

Also on May 15, the White House released a statement from President Bush urging the Senate to act favorably on U.S. accession to the Law of the Sea Treaty during this session of Congress. The treaty also has the strong support of the U.S. Navy.

The basic tenets of the treaty have been U.S. policy since first enunciated by President Reagan in 1982. Over the next dozen years the U.S. won in negotiations on the questionable aspects of the treaty, and signed on in 1994. The details are in the President's Message transmitting the treaty to the Senate The Adobe Reader logo.. In October 2003, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Dick Lugar held two comprehensive hearings on the treaty. The full transcripts of those hearings are part of the 187-page committee report The Adobe Reader logo..

In the 109th Congress, Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice made a strong endorsement of the Law of the Sea Treaty at her confirmation hearing on January 18, 2005. In addition, Chairman Lugar submitted questions for the record to Dr. Rice to follow-up on the Law of the Sea. In her responses, she expresses, among other points, that the Administration supports ratification and how the treaty will benefit national security, the economy, the military, the prevention of weapons of mass destruction proliferation and the Proliferation Security Initiative.

[Mr. Mojo]

A legacy-oriented White House is now shepherding it through a Congress

Frantically searching for a legacy in all the wrong places -- amnesty for tens of millions of illegal aliens, the creation of a Palestinian terror state in Israel's backyard, and the undermining of American sovereignty by seeking a global redistribution of America's wealth and power to third-worlders.

There isn't anything even remotely conservative about GWB.

[lilylangtree]

LOST needs to die a quick death.

[pissant]

That is one of the questions we asked Congressman Hunter for Monday’s Freep conference.

[taxcontrol]

I solidly believe that we need a Constitutional Amendment that places the authority of all treaties below the US Constitution and states that any clause or treaty that goes beyond what is permitted by the Constitution can not be enforced.

[Publius6961]

A legacy-oriented White House is now shepherding it through a Congress whose majority enthusiastically embraces collectivist European-style environmental activism and multilateral treaty-making — at the expense of constitutionally-protected individualism and property rights.

Does this sound familiar?
Shades of the "comprehensive" immigration reform bill, a/k/s shaft the American citizen.

Who runs this country, Congress or the American people? That is not a trick question. The doofuses in DC think they do, having forgotten what "Representative Constitutional Republic" means. Lest they forget entirely, let's remind them.

If you don't represent us, our only option is to replace you!

Is that clear enough?

[ChildOfThe60s]

BTTT

[hedgetrimmer]

LOST PING

[sauropod]

I’m sure that Richard Lugar (Traitor-IN) is doing all he can to make this abomination become law.