Posted on 11/15/2010 6:12:36 PM PST by pissant
President Obama has set the stage for an acrimonious relationship with the newly elected senators of the 112th Congress. As they come to Washington this week for freshman orientation, his welcome message amounts to, "I want to disenfranchise you."
This "unwelcome" applies especially to those occupying six new Republican seats in the Senate come January. It bears most particularly on two issues that will profoundly affect U.S. security over the next six years of these newly minted senators' terms in office and far beyond: the so-called New START treaty and the repeal of a statute prohibiting homosexuals from serving in the armed forces.
New START is a seriously defective arms-control agreement with the Russians, one that would make dramatic and ill-advised cuts in the number of U.S. strategic weapons and delivery systems. To be ratified, such a treaty needs the affirmative votes of 67 senators. President Obama thinks he may be able to secure those votes if he makes incredible promises to yesterday'sSenate, the one running out the clock in a post-election "lame-duck" session.
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Any missle treaty should now include China.
That idiot has the nuclear football..
Don’t remind him, that would save him a lot of time and effort. Unless he is enjoying this, which wouldn’t surprise me.
You 0bviously have no concept of our history with “missile treaties”....(SALT, START, etc...)
They NEVER restrict our enemies ambitions or behavior.
They ONLY restrict the U.S.!
Our liberal media and liberal politicians go overboard to ensure our compliance, while paying no attention to our enemies cheating.
He´s a jihadi islamist just waiting to....
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