Jesse Helms was "Senator No". We need more like him.
Posted on 12/21/2010 7:19:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Another GOP senator today came out in favor of the START pact – and it’s no less than the chamber’s number-three Republican.
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-TN, said he will vote in favor of ratification.
“I will vote to ratify the treaty because it leaves our countries with enough nuclear warheads to blow any attacker to Kingdom Come,” Alexander said in a speech on the Senate floor.
“In short I’m convinced that Americans are safer and more secure with the new START treaty than without it,” he noted.
Alexander said he and three other senators had written to President Obama earlier this week asking that the president include funding for nuclear modernization in his budget requests to Congress and yesterday the president sent a reply letter agreeing to the request.
His vote is a big boost for Democrats – the treaty now appears likely to pass later this week, barring a last-minute setback.
Just last Wednesday Alexander had joined a group of a dozen Republican senators to rail against Democrats for trying to pass the treaty during the lame-duck session of Congress.
“This is not the way to do it,” he said last Wednesday at a press conference. “This is not the way to get 67 votes and it’s a reckless way to consider the treaty.”
Today Alexander reiterated his frustration with Democrats for trying to pass the treaty during the lame-duck, as well as passing other matters such as the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal in the midst of the START debate. Alexander called it “a flawed process” that he said has “poisoned the well.”
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There are now six Senate Republicans who have said they WILL vote for the treaty ( with a few still dilly dallying):
* Dick Lugar of Indiana,
* George Voinovich of Ohio,
* Scott Brown of Massachusetts,
* Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine ( anyone still surprised?)
* and now Lamar Alexander of Tennessee
Bob Corker of Tennessee has said he will almost definitely vote for the pact,
while Judd Gregg of New Hampshire has said he is inclined to vote for it, too.
PHONE TIME TODAY! Start Treaty and FCC Net Neutrality
FIRE UP THE SENATE PHONE LINES!
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Tennessee’s 2 GOP senators Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker are pro Start Treaty.
Goodbye in 2012 to all Rinos supporting this....
Election? What election? Did we have an election?
* Dick Lugar of Indiana,
* George Voinovich of Ohio,
* Scott Brown of Massachusetts,
* Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine ( anyone still surprised?)
* and now Lamar Alexander of Tennessee
Bob Corker of Tennessee has said he will almost definitely vote for the pact, while Judd Gregg of New Hampshire has said he is inclined to vote for it, too.
More names for the vote out of office in the election list. Or whenever the next time they are up.
Fools every last one of them. They need not go home. They are not wanted.
So, Obammy already yanked the missile defense out of Poland (a fact I haven’t heard in any of these discussions).......how will this act of appeasement affect us?
Wow...I thought it would get through the cloture vote, but no way did I think this would get ratified.
Unreal. I’m sure the Russians are going to stick to their side of things, too! wink-wink
Call the traitors today non stop.
Tennessee, it’s time to step up and shut down the phone lines to this scum bag.
Main telephone lines in DC are busy. We need direct telephone numbers for these traitors so that we don’t have to use the main switchboard.
Freepers who are constituents must call non stop. They blow the rest of us off.
Alexander tried to prove that he is not the pansy he appears by walking across Tennessee. That was back when he was a young man preparing for another political campaign. But he has always been a squish. He walked all the way across Tennessee and he vacationed in the Australian Outback producing the book SIX MONTHS OFF. But he is still a squish.
Lamar Alexander is a squish.
There. Fixed it.
All you’ve got to do, to know that this treaty is BAD for America, is ask yourself this question: Is Mr. Obama for it? Well, then it is definitely bad for the nation.
Everything he does is wrong.
Johnny Isakson(GA) is leaning yes. WTF? He’s a reliable conservative, I thought~
It’s a great day to be Vladimir Putin. One direct order to America and its senators fall all over one another to obey. Amazing. Things are so different now...
President Reagan, I am sorry your party has decided to sh*t all over your legacy.
I agree. And that has been a big disappointment. He had such good potential but just stayed squishy around the edges.
Our arguments, IMO, were pretty well dang standard lame and curiously dispassionate. Possibly, the Treaty itself is theatrics for some unknown reason—a pretend paper that isn’t all even that meaningful? I think it’s a weird Treaty from the get-go.
Lamar Alexander should be demoted to #46 Republican in the Senate from #3.
Let’s see:
In this Lame Duck session, our RINO senators have:
1. Voted for the ‘temporary’ Tax-cut extension (with unfunded unemployment benefit extensions, tax breaks for ethanol, solar, etc)
2. Repealed DADT
3. Ratified an unnecessary and harmful START treaty.
4. Passed Michelle’s unfunded $4.5 billion anti-obesity bill
5. Killed the Omnibus spending bill
6. Killed the DREAM act.
Can anyone answer me: Who won the November election?
Jesse Helms was "Senator No". We need more like him.
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