Posted on 12/22/2010 12:46:43 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
The New START treaty has just passed the Senate, 71 to 26. The treaty needed 67 votes for ratification.
UPDATE: Thirteen Republicans voted to ratify the treaty: Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Bob Bennett (Utah), Scott Brown (Mass.), Thad Cochran (Miss.), Susan Collins (Maine), Bob Corker (Tenn.), Judd Gregg (N.H.), Johnny Isakson (Georgia), Mike Johanns (Nebraska), Richard Lugar (Indiana), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Olympia Snowe (Maine), and George Voinovich (Ohio).
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Unless it is passed in the lame duck it is dead because it will have to go back to the 2011 newly seated House and it won’t pass there.
He really meant 'steal spine'.
The House has nothing to do with the ratification of treaties.
The Dream Act is not a treaty and that is what we are talking about.
There has been an inexorable concentration of power to the federal government ever since. Now the communists are trying to eliminate the Republic altogether.
Then censured. /sarc
In large part, the same crew that bent over for repeal of DADT, as well.
I’d like to know exactly what were they promised?
Alive and kicking my former party's ass.
It may be, but the disinterested, dumbed-down masses don't care what's happening. To them, it's just another day. They only care when it costs them something tangible.
How can a treaty be enforced if we do not have the nukes to see it enforced. Completely oxymoronic treaty for idiots and gullibles, is what it is.
Simply organizing a challenge to Lugar in the 2012 Republican primary isn't good enough. Conservatives in Indiana first need to push for sore loser laws that prohibit anyone that loses in a primary from running in the general election.
I have little doubt Lugar would go the same route as Lisa Murkowski if a sore loser law isn't in place.
Since many of the RINOs aren't even up for reelection in 2012, the threat of the Tea Party becoming an alternative party is the only thing that is going to get the message through to the Republican party.
We'd better see Obamacare repealed (through denial of funding), DADT reinstated (through denial of funding for implementation of allowing open homosexuals in the military) and significant cuts in spending over the next two years or the Republican party needs to end as we know it.
This morning I woke up in a blue funk about what happened in the past 4 days. I was able to get a temporary lift by listening to a couple old Reagan speeches.
It’s quite clear America is not ever going to be what it was during that great Reagan era, but I feel blessed to have lived through it. We always seemed to be on offense... gaining strength, economically and militarily. We were respected by all, and feared by some when necessary.
What a difference 25 years makes. The “representatives” who are entrusted with the duty and the honor to place America first in their legislative duties ran... not walked, but RAN alongside their democrat brethren like frightened puppies to the furthest corner once the Russians made their demands to pass START without changes.
>> If things don’t change in a hurry, it is time to turn the Tea Party from an activist group to a real party.
Things changed, but the old hacks are not yet out of office.
The movement that forced the big change on Nov 2 is well aware of what happened during the Lame Duck.
You are absolutely correct. I am sickened by the fact that one of my US Senators (Isakson) was just re-elected which means he has 6 years and 14 days left to sell us out. All these Republicans [sic] had to do was to vote 'NO' on everything for two more weeks. Just two more weeks, and we would control the House. But no, they jumped at the chance to vote for everything Obama wanted. Everything. Institutionalized corruption.
/sigh
Kinda like the First American Revolution that was supported by only one-third of the population.
History is not made by majorities and inaction.
History is made determined minorities and action.
I know the two TX senators must be in mourning that they too could not join that list.
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