Posted on 10/30/2007 12:47:07 AM PDT by yorkie
In over 30 years of working in and watching the ways of Washington, I must say, I have never seen anything quite like it.
According to Senator Jon Kyl, the entire Senate Republican leadership is now opposed to a controversial treaty supported by the president and an implausible alliance of special interests – from the U.S. Navy to Greenpeace. At a joint press conference last Wednesday, he was one of several Senators to declare that, as a result, supporters would be unable to muster the necessary 67 votes for ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). Yet, it seems not one of the “establishment” media organs felt moved to report these momentous political developments.
More extraordinary still is the apparent news-blackout concerning the fact that virtually every Republican presidential candidate (with the surprising, and hopefully ephemeral, exception of Rudy Giuliani) has announced either outright opposition to the Treaty or deep misgivings about its inevitable effect: conferring more power on international organizations at the expense of U.S. sovereignty. Apart from a front-page article in the Washington Times last Friday and postings by an array of on-line news outlets, bloggers and a couple of newsletters, the so-called “mainstream media” have denied the American people virtually any information about LOST’s growing difficulties.
The seemingly deliberate suppression of bad news concerning an accord favored by the elite is being compounded by a similar lack of transparency on the part of the Senate itself. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has scheduled a panel vote on LOST for Wednesday – ignoring a request from one of his colleagues, Sen. David Vitter, for additional hearings and additional testimony from those opposed to the Treaty.
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Ping!
Thanks for the ping a good read. Can’t wait to be under the direction of the UN. /s.
What on earth is George W. Bush doing supporting this nonsense?
His whole second term has been one great disappointment...It seems like after he failed to sell social security reform that he just gave up.
>>What on earth is George W. Bush doing supporting this nonsense?<<
Agenda, perhaps?
Everybody - get on the phones and protest this atrocity! Our entire sovereignty is at stake with this treaty.
>What on erth is George W. Bush doing supporting this nonsense?<
Globalist George Walker Bush will continue to push for L.O.S.T., NAU, SPP and shamnesty harder the closer he approaches the end of his “lame duck” term. This is the capital he referred to in a speech after his re-election.
No more Bushes, no more Clintons, no more Globalists!
Where the hell is Rush Limbaugh on this issue? I haven’t heard him say squat about this LOST travesty.
I wish he would spend as much time talking about the dangers of LOST as he has spent talking about that stupid Harry Reid letter!
You don’t need for Rush to tell you it’s a bad idea.
You can go ahead and contact your Senators and tell them “Just say no to LOST”,
What should be most extraordinary, but isn't, is Bush is in favor of LOST and the effect.
Already done.
Yes, he’ll probably be pals with Bill Clinton after his term is over, like his dad.
Ditto
What, you don't know what to think about it unless he tells you?
I imagine Limbaugh just hopes the whole thing goes away, with as little publicity as possible. Rush is conservative, but he doesn’t like to attack Bush unless he has to. He was also relatively subdued during the amnesty crisis and earlier during the Miers crisis. Too bad, because we don’t need him to tell us what to think, but we could use him to get the word out and encourage more pressure on congress, since the President seems to be a LOST cause.
This business is VERY damaging to President Bush’s reputation. He started out his first term, very early, telling the International Court of Justice to get lost, and now he is ending his second term embracing every NWO scheme that comes down the pike.
Illegal Amnesty, Lost, carbon credits, North American Union, the whole works.
Very discouraging. This stuff wasn’t on the table during the first term. And you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to see that it is hardly helping his reputation among the remaining people anxious to support him.
He has been reliably pro-life, and he has stuck to his guns in Iraq, although he let himself get distracted from what needed to be done until the change in leadership over there.
Bush derangement syndrome will ensure that he will never be popular on the liberal cocktail circuit after he leaves office, and I don’t see him as the kind of guy who would want that, anyway. So, just what kind of a “legacy” is he trying to achieve? Very strange.
Why is the US Navy in support of this?!
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