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Collapse - Republican opposition to New START is collapsing
National Review Online - The Corner ^ | 12/21/10 | Rich Lowry

Posted on 12/21/2010 7:54:11 AM PST by Fury

Republican opposition to New START is collapsing. One Senate source just told me the vote for ratification could go as high as 75. Another said, “I don’t know if it will get that high, but it’s starting to tick up there.” As the sense builds that ratification is inevitable, Republicans are lining up to get on the “right side.” Lamar Alexander’s support, noted below, is a crucial sign of which way the wind is blowing, although he’ll probably be the only member of the Republican leadership to vote for it. At least Jon Kyl was able to get more money for modernization and that letter from President Obama making assurances on missile defense. Otherwise, this is a dismaying rout.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: 111th; armsreduction; gop; newstart; obama; palin; republicans; rinos; start; treason
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To: Fury

Being a GOP Senator is the simplest job in the world yet these fools just don’t get it.

If Obama is for it. Vote against it. Period. No reading, no thinking necessary.

Has white guilt really made these numbnuts willing to sabotage the USA?


21 posted on 12/21/2010 8:06:48 AM PST by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: scbison
"Is it worth our time with these guys?? Time for a new party as the one we have now is a total waste of time."

We already have a third party. It's made up of the RINOS who have joined up with their soul-mates, the 'RATS to form the "No Labels Party". Proving Rush right again when he says, conservatives are going to take our party back to its roots, and it will be the RINOS who will form any third party, not us.

22 posted on 12/21/2010 8:07:14 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Trent Lott on Tea Party candidates: "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them" 7/19/10)
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To: Mouton
And then what? Vote in another Scott Brown type? The GOP is done, they are just as bad as the democrats.

The Tea Party needs to form a real party. There is not much else to do in reality.

23 posted on 12/21/2010 8:07:51 AM PST by deep (http://www.americansagainstobama.com)
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To: All

This is unforgivable, I’m done with the GOP.


24 posted on 12/21/2010 8:07:57 AM PST by Irenic
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To: Fury
Republicans blew it.

All they had to do was announce that the American people had spoken in November and that they would thus filibuster EVERYTHING until the new congress that the American people elected was seated.

25 posted on 12/21/2010 8:08:07 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: Fury

This is just an extension of why I became an Independent quite a while back. These gutless baby-kissers need to be cleaned out. Start in 2012.


26 posted on 12/21/2010 8:08:16 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Fury

I EXPECT democrats to vote for it. I also EXPECTED a little more pro-Americanism from the Republican side. The POSGOP can’t even muster 34 votes to stop this.

Go to hell, GOP.


27 posted on 12/21/2010 8:08:24 AM PST by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: Fury

We are safer withOUT the treaty than with it. It cancels our missile defense program.


28 posted on 12/21/2010 8:09:08 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Blue Turtle
Where are the balls of the repubs?

Those of the men must be in Hillary's lock box... :-)

29 posted on 12/21/2010 8:09:49 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Fury

Collapse both parties and let THE PEOPLE take over!
The political class is going to get us killed! This is insane, let the revolution begin!

Yeah but I could just sit here behind my warm computer or watch dancing with stars and let the world take care of itself!!! Maybe hope for an election to save my butt.

At some point we have to just say the war is lost and let it destroy itself and pick up the pieces from the smoldering
wreakage!


30 posted on 12/21/2010 8:09:58 AM PST by timetostand (Ya say ya wanna revolution -- OK!)
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To: Fury

I bloody knew they would fail.

The Founders didn’t sit around and wait and see.


31 posted on 12/21/2010 8:10:27 AM PST by wastedyears (It has nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with control.)
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To: Fury
It is now starting to look like the Republicans traded DADT, START, and the 99 week extension of unemployment benefits for the 2 year extension of the tax cuts....

That's a pretty crappy deal, considering if we had just simply done NOTHING until January we could of gotten the tax cuts and had to give up NOTHING!

32 posted on 12/21/2010 8:11:04 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: Fury

The Kenyan gets handed a victory on foreign policy by a pack of RINOs... unbelievable, shocking.

Any of them up for re-election 2012? Can we primary these guys?


33 posted on 12/21/2010 8:11:20 AM PST by blade_tenner
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To: Fury
Russia warns US not to meddle with START treaty

Staggering. Just stop and absorb this message. And our friggin' LAME DUCK Senate cowers and takes orders from the Kremlin???!!!

WWRRD?

NYET!!!!!!!!

Reagan Tells Soviet Jokes

34 posted on 12/21/2010 8:11:21 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (I'm with Jim DeMint ... on the fringe!)
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To: Obadiah
Never, "What's the best thing for America", but always, "collapsing to line up on the right side" (politically).

The funny thing is that the right side of this issue is to vote "nay."
35 posted on 12/21/2010 8:12:00 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Fury

Russia says ‘Jump!”; the U. S. Senate says “How high?”


36 posted on 12/21/2010 8:12:42 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Sprite518

I don’t think he ever wanted to get the job done. He pretended a little, said he was against it himself, but let all of his usual ‘girls’ go out to their favorite streetcorners right on schedule. Wink, wink.


37 posted on 12/21/2010 8:12:54 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: deep

I agree the GOP is done. I was not saying to elect more RINOs. I was saying those who voted for this, and other crap, need to be replaced, hopefully the TeaParty will have candidates. If not, anything but what we got now works for me.


38 posted on 12/21/2010 8:13:01 AM PST by Mouton
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To: ScottinVA

“A pox on both parties.”

Amen. They are idiots.


39 posted on 12/21/2010 8:14:16 AM PST by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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To: Matchett-PI

I hope so because this is effing frustrating!!!


40 posted on 12/21/2010 8:14:28 AM PST by scbison
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