My question is....ONLY 50 SIGNED THE LETTER?
So 50 are in favor of not upholding their oaths to the Constitution.
Throw them out! TODAY!
I see many are the same traitors that allowed Obamcare to be funded. Maybe trying to save face now. Oh well I’ll take whatever scraps I can get with the current regime in power.
“....diplomatic credibility of the United States.”
Thats my laugh for the morning!
I count ALL the Republican senators plus 3 democrats: Manchin, Landrieu and Hagan.
Nice to know so many democrats have preserving the US Constitution in mind (that they took an oath to)...
With the way Kelly Ayotte sold us out on ObamaCare, what are the chances that she will really follow-through on this?
We will not give up our 2A regardless of what these or any other traitors say or think.
Need? Need to forfeit our God given right to self defense??
I don't know a single gun owner who feels a need to forfeit their God given right to self defense.
Let's be clear about what this U.N. treaty and Obama are up to: They are up to FORCING legitimate, God Fearing gun owners via force of Government to surrender their God given rights to self defense.
THAT is what this is about, despite the piss-poor "journalism" eminating from TownHall.com
That this is ‘good news’ is depressing.
Like Agenda 21 it will be implemented a bit at a time, anyway.
Since there is no time limit, this Treaty will remain signed and awaiting ratification for years if necessary until there are enough DemocRATs in the Senate for passage. The danger is not over, and never will be.
As if Senate ratification means anything to Team Soetoro. The NSA probably has every 4473 on file already.
Nice but Obummer has already ordered the ATF to block shipments of surplus ammo and surplus firearms from foreign countries. He doesn’t need the Senate to approve when he can do this.
Implied in the article and story is that a Treaty can nullify the 2nd Amendment. Sorry GOPe and Dems, its SETTLED LAW a treaty inconsistent with the Constitution is null and void.
if they can block the treaty, they should vote it down rather then posturing about it. this is a plot by some of these senators to get concessions frim the white house. if they really were against teh treaty, they’d be calling for a vote today while they have the votes to shoot it down, not wait for the white house to pressure some of them to crack.
vote it down NOW! once and for all.
Need to watch the end run of the Law of the Sea Treaty as well. They have been trying push this pos treaty for over 25 years.
IT figures both Mike Bennett and Mark Udall are not among the Americans. Michael Bennett wrote me when the 17%make the american People feel the pain Communist dialectic shutdown /pony and prostitute how in DC was over that my Government had failed me. His actions as Senator suggest he is part of the problem -but I made a vow to NEVER vote for another Democrat Ever unless Jesus Christ came to me and commanded it.
so I am not numbered among the beguiled.
This is a dangerous statement that liberals are making right now, that there isn't enough votes in the Senate so pay no attention to this treaty.
However, the US Constitution only says that 2/3rds of THOSE SENATORS PRESENT need to ratify a treaty and it says only 51 Senators must be present to hold a vote, so...
ONLY 34 SENATORS MUST VOTE FOR THIS TREATY AND THEY HAVE THOSE VOTES!
They only need to find a means to have only 51 Senators present or 2/3rds concur through silence, and they have done this before. They hold votes when members are out of DC at the end of the year, or at night, or on weekends. The Senate has even tried the "unanimous consent" routine whereby they declare everyone present and without any objection they pass the treaty. Many bills pass through the UC routine whereby they do not want a recorded vote so they simply declare the bill having passed by "unanimous consent" if no one objects. This also has the effect that someone that declares publicly they are against a bill but secretly for it or of no backbone to oppose it can quietly claim it was passed without their support even though they were there and did not object.“In order for this treaty to be ratified, it would need 60 “yay” votes in the Senate.”
Uh no it would take 67 votes.
