President Obama may have tried to give the impression that he understands the message America sent him on Tuesday, but you wouldn’t know it from his comments just hours ago about the START treaty. Many serious questions have been raised about this agreement. But the President? He wants the lame duck Senate to ratify the treaty–not the new one that will be in place this January. “This is not a traditionally Democratic or Republican issue, but rather, an issue of American national security,” he said. But if it is so important, why not let the new Senate deliberate? Obviously because The President knows that it would be much less likely to ratify the treaty.
Obama says he wants the treaty passed by the lame duck Senate so that we will “send a strong signal to Russia that we’re serious about reducing nuclear arsenals.” What he’s actually doing is signaling his profound weakness by trying to ram a bad treaty through the senate before there is a chance for serious deliberation.
The table is set for the next big battle against the Obama agenda.
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