TagsTagsIn another piece of good news from the Raging Duck Congress, the Senate has passed the "New Start" arms control treaty, 71-26.
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The Senate has voted for cloture on the new START arms treaty with Russia ... final count 67 yeas, 28 nays (all Republicans).
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The GOP is more afraid of gay people than they are of nuclear war: Sen. Corker Threatens Reid: If You Bring DADT Repeal For A Vote, We’ll Walk Away From START. [Poll]
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The Republican Party is getting so crazy they're starting to scare the whole world. LISBON, Portugal (CNN) – Several nations once in the shadow of the Iron Curtain have a message for Republicans in Congress: Don't stop New START before it starts. Making their appeal on behalf of the U.S.-Russian nuclear ...
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President Obama is going to tackle the Republican effort to scuttle the START treaty head on: Obama Turns New Start Treaty Into Showdown With GOP. He is pushing for a vote on a signature issue despite long odds, daring Republicans to block an arms-control treaty at the risk of disrupting ...
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The party of Homeland Security, as part of their strategy for subverting absolutely everything Barack Obama tries to achieve regardless of the effect on the nation, decided to take advantage of the lame duck Congress and block the START treaty with Russia. President Obama’s hopes of ratifying a new ...
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Slate international relations columnist Fred Kaplan goes line by line through Mitt Romney’s attack on President Obama’s new START treaty, and concludes that it’s “shabby, misleading, and thoroughly ignorant.”
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