{"id":3655,"date":"2010-12-18T14:21:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T22:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3655"},"modified":"2010-12-18T14:21:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T22:21:22","slug":"more-republican-threats-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/18\/more-republican-threats-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"More Republican Threats to START"},"content":{"rendered":"

After all they got in the Tax Capitulation Act, you\u2019d think the Republican Party would rest on their laurels for a day or two.  Fat chance!  They liked the way holding 98% of Americans and 100% of America\u2019s unemployed, the victims of Republic an malfeasance, worked for them, so they are at it again.  Their most recent attempt is to threaten to kill START, if DADT passes.  It didn\u2019t work, but they are trying to follow through with the threat anyway.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"gopVision\"Vexed and cornered, Republican opponents of the advancing effort to allow gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military pulled out a final card Friday, suggesting that the future of an arms treaty with Russia was endangered by Democratic efforts to repeal \u201cdon\u2019t ask don\u2019t tell\u201d at the end of the lame-duck session<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt poisons the well,\u201d said Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, on the floor of the Senate during debate on the New Start treaty. Mr. Coker said he did not think \u201cthe future of the Start treaty over the next several days is going to be successful\u201d if Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, continued with his plans to pursue the repeal, as well as an immigration bill<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Other Republican senators echoed the view\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The first attempt to kill START was the McCain-Barasso Amendment, a poison pill that would have requires renegotiation with Russia on missile defense.  That failed.<\/font><\/p>\n

Negotiations on this treaty began under the Bush Regime.  It has been conducted by professional experts and neither President interfered with the process.  As negotiations continued, Russia continued to dismantle nukes in good faith so that they are already below the required limits.  As I watched the debate, I saw Sen. Hutchinson (R-TX) argue that the treaty is unfair, because Russia is below the limit, and therefore, it should be renegotiated to make Russia give up more.  Is this how America should reward good faith?<\/font><\/p>\n

As for the fate of START, we\u2019ll have to wait and see.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After all they got in the Tax Capitulation Act, you\u2019d think the Republican Party would rest on their laurels for a day or two.  Fat chance!  They liked the way holding 98% of Americans and 100% of America\u2019s unemployed, the victims of Republic an malfeasance, worked for them, so they are at it again.  Their […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}