Senate Approves New START (13 Republicans Approve Bending Over For Putin)

National Review ^ | 12/22/10 | K. Trinko

[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).

[Recovering_Democrat]

Don't you just love how Republican elected officials listen to their grass roots? < \sarcasm>

[Gene Eric]

Excellent work McConnell. /s

[Bringbackthedraft]

Rino’s in sheep’s clothing? All the Hoo Ha, and what do you get? SOS!

[thethirddegree]

They all should be tried for treason.

[napscoordinator]

Thad Conrad from Mississippi, Mike Johanns from Nebraska, and Jonny Isacson from Georgia need to go. Big Time RINOS.....the others are obvious RINOS.

[Little Pharma]

I’m not a conspiracy person but I’ve been wondering how this thing went from dead to passing with a margin in a matter of a few days. I wonder if each Senator was taken into a room and shown footage of a missle test over the Pacific ocean that we were all told was the vapor trail of a jet. Something is up.

[ZULU]

I really wonder what is going on here.

Did Obama cut a deal with the GOP whereby they agreed to give him enough votes for this in return for that hokey tax bill?

Do they think that by passing this thing, the majority of GOP COngresscritters can hang Obama with it later?

Or are they, like Bush I, Henry Kissinger, and Colon Powell, simply STUPID??

[NonValueAdded]

Whats up with the Tennessee dudes? Oak Ridge gonna get a lot of the dismantling work? Nothing like putting parochial concerns ahead of National Security. And their Constitutional Oath. Well, aside from keeping those idiots in mind in 2012, also keep them in mind when an administration who actually takes their National Security responsibilities seriously breaks the treaty.

[R0CK3T]

So they sold out Missile Defense eh?

If we ever have an incoming ICBM that slaughters Americans in this country these who voted for this had better be prepared to pay the ultimate price.

Because Missile Defense could save lives and they would be THE ONES who saw it dismantled.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Chalk up another “big win” for Barack the Kenyan and his Commie’RAT Party. They’re eating the GOP’s AND AMERICA’S lunch. The Princess Scorned of the North got yet another shot to take out more revenge on America. Mookowski is in full Obama Tingle mode now!

[Hattie]

If we ever have an incoming ICBM that slaughters Americans in this country these who voted for this had better be prepared to pay the ultimate price.

Let's just hope they land in their states.

[ScottinVA]

Standing bravely in the face of Russian threats./sarccccc

[DarthVader]

RINOs enjoy what time you have left and be prepared to suffer the consequences. You will be challenged and defeated in the primaries. We swear it.

Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) Dead Meat

Bob Bennett (Utah)Defeated in primary gone

Scott Brown (Mass.)Dead Meat

Thad Cochran (Miss.) Dead Meat

Susan Collins (Maine)Dead Meat

Bob Corker (Tenn.)Dead Meat

Judd Gregg (N.H.) Retiring

Johnny Isakson (Georgia)Dead Meat

Mike Johanns (Nebraska)Dead Meat

Richard Lugar (Indiana)Dead Meat

Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)Dead Meat

Olympia Snowe (Maine)Dead Meat

George Voinovich (Ohio)Retiring

[EternalVigilance]

Ronald Reagan used the threat of an effective missile defense to bankrupt and bring down the Soviet Union.

Gorbachev lost.

Barack Obama traded missile defense for an unverifiable bit of nothing.

Putin laughs.

[Prokopton]

Is there anyone who still believes that the Republican party can be “reformed” from the elite statism which it now embraces? I don't think so and I have little confidence that the newly elected will have much of an effect. It appears that there are more Republicans who are now adopting progressivism than there are newly elected conservatives.

[VRWCTexan]

markknoller

Three GOP Senators did not cast votes in the START ratification: Bond, R-MO; Brownback, R-KS and Bunning, R-KY.

10 minutes ago via web

[SC_Pete]

Repeal direct election of senators.

[ScottinVA]

Screw you, POSGOP. You folded...again.

[Jim Scott]

After this debacle - and the repeal of DADT - I don't want to see or hear Mitch McConnell talking about how 'tough' the senate Republicans are with Obama. This misguided treaty is harmful to America's national security and so fits right into Obama's plans, as does the now-mandatory admission into the U.S. military of people who practice homosexual behavior. That will undoubtedly harm our military unit's cohesion, again weakening America and so, fitting into Obama's plans to take down the greatest nation on earth...and senate 'Republicans' are helping Obama and the Democrats do it!

No, Senator McConnell, don't you dare come around here trying to talk tough and pretend you're actually opposing Obama and the leftist Democrats that are steadily dismantling this country's basic structures (economic, military) while eroding individual freedoms, piece by piece, i.e. 'net neutrality' which is the first small step to the government controlling the internet. Once it does, websites such as this (Free Republic) will be just a memory of 'the good old days'... that congressional 'Republicans' helped the leftist America-haters destroy - while weak-chinned 'leaders' like you, Mitch McConnell, did nothing but whine and pretend to be 'tough'. Spare us, please.

[LibLieSlayer]

cochran is not running for reelection in 2014... and he does not care what we (those that voted him into office) think... I had at least 20 people call him from here in Mississippi... to complain... all that his office said was, “he will vote for it”. He is a turn coat traitor and his retirement will be filled with disdain and embarrassment.

LLS