Damn the torpedo's, full steam ahead!

You might remember back a few hours ago when we told you about Republican efforts to stop legislation making the Internet free and open with less restrictions on it! (If not then just look at the article beneath this one!)

Now we have another example of how the far right in American politics is out to sabotage any legislation brought forward by the Democrats, regardless of whether it is in the nation's best interest or not. In other words, they don't care what is good for the country, this group of spoiled rotten kids only concern is in screwing the Democrats at each and every turn no matter what the cost.

(Normally I wouldn't really care what they do down south of the border, except this one might throw us all back into the 'cold war!')

By Desmond Butler, The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Divisions within Republican ranks emerged yesterday over a U.S.-Russia nuclear arms control treaty as President Barack Obama pushes for the Senate to act quickly on the pact.


Twenty-two Republicans — just over half the Republican lawmakers now in the Senate — wrote to their leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, urging him not to allow the debate to be rushed in the outgoing Congress' session.

The treaty would cut the limits on strategic warheads for the United States and Russia. The pact also would establish new procedures to allow both countries to inspect each other's nuclear arsenals to verify compliance.

One of the lawmakers who signed the letter, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, said recently that he may employ delaying tactics to hold up the treaty. (The reason for this is because they want to delay the vote till spring when they have more Republicans in the Legislature........ and have a better chance of killing Obama's deal with the Russians! -Ed.)

Democrats have made the treaty a priority because their ranks will shrink in January when newly elected Republicans — many of them more conservative — come in. It requires a two-thirds majority, or 67 votes, in the Senate to ratify a treaty, making it necessary to line up significant Republican support.