“Give ‘em a call. But it wouldn’t matter given the spread the Democrats have in the Senate. Come Next Monday morning they no longer have that spread.”
Dude!!! Treaty ratification takes 67 votes. The vote was 71-26 on START. 71 minus 12 equals 59. I’d say that matters some.
Some of them were also led to believe that the only way we are going to get those new facilities is by signing on to START. Without START all the other treaties taken together rather limit our ability to modernize our reprocessing sites. Every now and then we have to reprocess the fissionable material in the nuclear warheads to make sure we have stuff that works and not just duds.
What that means is that they had a Damned if you do and Damned if you don't situation.
Now, what about the Senators who ended up VOTING AGAINST improving our nuclear reprocessing sites? Were they doing it out of a sense of patriotism, or maybe because the Chicoms paid them off?
Really, you had a complex issue here ~ it should have been tossed over to the New Congress. Because it wasn't it is unlikely the enabling legislation and the appropriations required to make this treaty work will get through the next House of Representatives.
It's like the Democrat lackeys pushing a hurry up on START forgot that it's just a POS without action by the House, and they'd lost the House in November.
It's really up to John Boehner and his cronies running the House to kill START ~ and given a choice between killing START and bailing out Ohio who do you think will win.