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Arms Treaty Draws More GOP Votes
Wall Street Journal ^ | 12/11/10 | J Weisman

Posted on 12/11/2010 8:49:08 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat

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"Congress won't leave before Start is done," said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. "START will get done, and START will get done with a strong, bipartisan vote."

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Sens. Snowe and Collins are only the second and third Republicans to publicly declare their support for New START, after Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana. But eight others have suggested they will vote for it.

Lugar, Snowe, Collins...and who are the other 8?

I tell ya what, seems to me the REPUBLICAN PARTY still hasn't learned a lesson. Hussein is NOT TO BE ALLOWED TO COMPROMISE OUR SECURITY, dammit.

How idiotic are these people? They're agreeing with Hussein MORE than the Demon-rats in the House!

1 posted on 12/11/2010 8:49:13 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat

The RINOs are going to vote for the treaty. But there’s no compelling argument to ratify it.


2 posted on 12/11/2010 8:52:10 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Last year Ted Kennedy seat flipped because of Obamacare and we still got Obamacare.

After last months repudiation of everything Obama we can't even stall out this Treaty for a couple of more weeks?!

3 posted on 12/11/2010 8:53:49 AM PST by AU72
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Dims didn’t even run anyone against Lugar in 2006. Why bother. He supports all their macro-agenda stuff.


4 posted on 12/11/2010 8:55:42 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (Leftys who zone in on Palin miss the point. America's not about single figures. That's for NK/Cuba.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

WE NEED TO MARCH ON GOP HEADQUARTERS NEXT!!!!!!!


5 posted on 12/11/2010 8:56:14 AM PST by Mr. K ('Profiling' is much worse than grabbing your balls)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

And if START does not pass as a treaty, they are ready to ram it through as a piece of standard legislation attached to the Defense Appropriations bill, the same way they are going to stick us with DADT. It will be federal law “in the spirit” of the treaty.


6 posted on 12/11/2010 8:59:29 AM PST by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: AU72

Call Boehner’s office (Bonehead) and remind him of the November 5 2nd election and what the message that We The People sent was. It wasn’t this BS. How do we get someone to run against this RINO? I tried to call his office yesterday and his Mail Box was FULL! I’m sure the messages weren’t congratulations on his obvious caving and ignoring of the American people.


7 posted on 12/11/2010 9:01:54 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Recovering_Democrat
The declaration came after Maine's two Republican senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, declared their support for the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

Let me guess, Murk'ski and Brown'ski in the mix?

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero

8 posted on 12/11/2010 9:03:30 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Before Boehner takes over from that woman, Nancy, already he looks like TOAST!


9 posted on 12/11/2010 9:05:39 AM PST by A. Morgan
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Why would you advocate calling the Speaker-elect when only the Senate votes on treaty ratification?


10 posted on 12/11/2010 9:07:03 AM PST by RightGuy
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To: ExTexasRedhead
I tried to call his office yesterday and his Mail Box was FULL! I’m sure the messages weren’t congratulations on his obvious caving and ignoring of the American people.

Same with McConnell's DC number. Busy/voicemail full. Disrespectful disregard for We the People.

11 posted on 12/11/2010 9:07:20 AM PST by Jane Long (2 Chron 7:14)
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To: ExTexasRedhead
Boehner cannot really do anything about this since only the Senate approves treaties.
12 posted on 12/11/2010 9:09:55 AM PST by Perdogg (What Would Aqua Buddha do?)
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Boehner cannot really do anything about this since only the Senate approves treaties.

If the Senate does not ratify Start III, they will try to ram it through as a normal piece of Federal legislation, likely attached to the Defense Appropriations bill (With the repeal of DADT). Many "treaties" have been passed as federal legislation to bypass the 2/3rds Senate requirement.

Should this happen, we will need the Republicans to shoot down the appropriations bill until these things are taken off.

13 posted on 12/11/2010 9:13:39 AM PST by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: Thunder90

Let us cross that bridge when we come to it. However, right now, the House is powerless.


14 posted on 12/11/2010 9:15:07 AM PST by Perdogg (What Would Aqua Buddha do?)
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To: RightGuy

One would certainly expect that McConnell and Boehner discuss our national security. I would highly recommend that Boehner inform McConnell and the gang that We The People sent them a message on November 2nd. They’re all in this together. Apparently, RINOs didn’t get the message; any of them! Calling Boehner and McConnell about everything disastrous for our country would be prudent at this point in our slide down the toilet bowl.


15 posted on 12/11/2010 9:16:47 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: RightGuy
Why would you advocate calling the Speaker-elect when only the Senate votes on treaty ratification?

Shhhh...Germans bombing Pearl Harbor...


16 posted on 12/11/2010 9:17:37 AM PST by Tex-Con-Man
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To: Perdogg

Don’t be suprised if the current version of the appropiations bill has this stuck into it.

And, Federal legislation is a much harder thing for a President to break, should we win in 2012. So, even if the treaty does pass, if a piece of legislation is passed by the House and Senate, and signed by the President, it would make it that much harder for a future President to break the treaty as it will also be Federal law. Presidents can break treaties at will, but not regular legislation. And, the Dems would include such a poison pill to hamstring a future administration.


17 posted on 12/11/2010 9:17:54 AM PST by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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Folks, it is over. We lost. Arm up, prepare to defend yourselves because counting on the criminal cartel in DC is like betting on their being no sunrise tomorrow.

There is ABSOLUTELY no reason to go along with this POS treaty. That wide eyed nut case in the oval office is the enemy of the state. Conspiring with foreign nations against this sovern nation is IMO treason.


18 posted on 12/11/2010 9:18:59 AM PST by Mouton
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To: ExTexasRedhead

The House doesn’t vote on or ratify treaties. Boehner will have nothing to do with this.


19 posted on 12/11/2010 9:21:50 AM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Boehner is in the House and they have nothing to do with this.


20 posted on 12/11/2010 9:25:10 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Palin 2012: don't retreat, just reload)
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