Posted on 11/29/2010 2:58:03 PM PST by onyx
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said it’s crucial to ratify the new START treaty during the lame duck session and failure to do so would harm America’s image abroad.
Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made his arguments in a forceful speech on the Senate floor late Monday.
It was the second part of a joint effort with the Obama administration to push for a vote on the 28-page treaty in the Senate. Earlier in the day, President Obama told reporters he intends to make the START treaty a priority in a Tuesday meeting with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders at the White House. Obama called the treaty “so essential to our safety and security.”
Meanwhile, Kerry used his 35-minute floor speech to push back against GOP criticism that the treaty would erode the U.S.’s nuclear protections and is being rushed through the Senate. Countering critics point-by-point, Kerry said the treaty has already been repeatedly delayed and that an ongoing failure to ratify it is actually harming America more.
“With one simple vote before we leave here in the next days, we could approve the new START treaty and make America and the world more secure, and take an important step forward in leadership, as we express to the world our sense of responsibility with respect to nuclear weapons,” Kerry said. “That’s the opportunity we have.”
The senator dismissed demands by incoming freshmen GOP senators that they have a chance to vote on the treaty. Several GOP senators have sent a letter asking for that opportunity, but Kerry said only the 111th Congress has scrutinized the treaty in depth through testimonial and debate hearings as well as congressional trips overseas.
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“What happens when the president of the United States negotiates a treaty and comes back here and the rest of the world sees that treaty bogged down — not in the substance of the treaty, but in the politics of the day?” Kerry said.
Its a bad treaty and not in the interest of the United States.
KILL IT!
Please note the names of any Repubs signing on so we can get rid of them at the earliest opportunity.
>> “What happens when the president of the United States negotiates a treaty... and the rest of the world sees that treaty bogged down...”
Traitor Jean Kerree could care less what the CITIZENS OF HIS OWN COUNTRY want. As long as the WORLD approves.
KILL THE BILL!! KILL THE BILL!! KILL THE BILL!!
“I’m an internationalist,” Kerry told The Crimson in 1970. “I’d like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.”
Kerry said he wanted “to almost eliminate CIA activity. The CIA is fighting its own war in Laos and nobody seems to care.”
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/11/old-crimson-interview-reveals-a-more/
Dick Lugar of IN is the only Republican backing it. Time to terminate his career in 2012.
Frankenstien monster is at it again
Has this ahole ever been right about anything? Any one thing? Thought not. Whatta POS.
BS!
Yet its the Democrats trying to jam through a bad treaty in order to say Obama accomplished something on the foreign policy front.
When Obama brings home a treaty that benefits the United States, we will ratify it. Until then, SHUT THE HELL UP, KERRY!
Yes losing in 2004
Is it dead girl or a naked boy they have pictures with Dick Lugar?
We rejoice.
Anything Kerry recommends has got to be bad for our country.
You got that right!
Its the substance of the treaty that’s awful. And we can send a message about Obama’s foreign policy - or the lack of one to the world.
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