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Senate GOP Sells Out National Security for Tax Cuts

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  December 2nd, 2010 at 05:00 AM  | 

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Let’s be honest, there are many sexy issues in politics these day. The START Treaty is not one of them.

No one other than Barack Obama and the Kremlin care about START.

But we should. We should also care that the Senate GOP, thanks to the “skillful” negotiations of Jon Kyl (R-AZ), have decided to sell us down the river to Moscow in order to temporarily avoid the Obama tax increase.

The sad part is that we could get the Bush tax cuts extended even without selling out our national security.

Supporters of the START treaty say all of this is nonsense, but the fact is the START Treaty will largely wipe out any ability to have a missile defense system in place. True, it doesn’t actually prohibit one, but it drives up the costs so significantly as to make it impossible.

Barack Obama and the Democrats keep telling us Ronald Reagan would have signed this treaty. That is hogwash.

The treaty returns the United States and Russia to that dreamy time when your effeminate poindexter of a Jimmy Carter voting high school history teacher soiled his shorts gleefully explaining how “mutually assured destruction” was such a genius deterrent to nuclear war. After all, if the Russians can kill us and we can kill them, neither side will kill the other.

Except Pakistan, India, and a host of other countries now have nuclear weapons and Barack Obama, Jon Kyl, etc. are still playing on the pre-1990 world stage. Only a gaggle of pathological Washingtonians wishing to bask in the adoration of a Beltway Press Corp in search of bipartisanship, damn the issue, would dredge up a nuclear treaty with a country barely able to hold itself together as a country in remembrance of the grand old days of the Cold War. That the GOP would do it for a temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts is all the more appalling.

Oh, and about the much touted verification process — it isn’t concrete, it is full of loopholes, and is easily undermined by the Russians. Why the hell we want a country our State Department thinks is largely run by the Russian mob being able to dictate our future national security is beyond me.

But hey — they are the successors to the Commies and we know the Democrats love them some communists. Too bad Jon Kyl — he’s a brilliant strategist by the way, just ask him — is going along with it.

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  • calgacus

    will actually pass. I think also that there will be a temporary extension of all Bush tax cuts. Personally, I think they should ALL be allowed to expire, and replaced w/ a new system w/ out loopholes. It’s the spending stupid, but so far no signs of life from the Stupid Party.

  • http://www.defeatobama.com DefeatObama.com

    The polls show that people don’t want anything cut. This is the unfortunate problem the party has in the agenda. I hope we can overcome it but it might take two years of talk shows hammering the point home.

  • flamerock

    …of stupid people in groups, Calgacus. Of course the tax structure should be left as is pending its total replacement by a flat tax or the Fair Tax (my preference). Of course START 3 should not be ratified, as its verification provisions are essentially nonexistent and its de facto ban on missile defense makes us very vulnerable in a world that those who worship at the altar of U.S. – Russian bilateral weapons reduction treaties even deny exists.

    The fact remains that it’s at best a 50-50 proposition that we’ll have neither the Obama tax increase – the largest tax increase in American history – and a START treaty that neuters our ability to defend ourselves in the multi-polar world in which we find ourselves.

    “The first and fatal charm of national repentance is … the encouragement it gives us to turn from the bitter task of repenting our own sins to the congenial one of bewailing — but, first, of denouncing — the conduct of others.” – C.S. Lewis

  • jlsankot

    I read “Obama tax increase”.

    I think if the phrase: “tax increase” instead of “tax cut” were used, the voters would “get it”. Possibly even those in Washington?

  • southernpatriots

    Senate Republicans are elitists and establishment politicians who did not hear the conservative ascendancy which received its first downpayment in November. Elect conservatives, especially Christian conservatives who have conservatism as their core values and only Republican as a label and party well after other more important things which follow those core values, and we can avoid this problem in the future. It truly is a time where we will identify those who will sell our protection (birthright) for a bowl of porridge. We did not change the Senate in November, but it is only the tone deaf Senators who did not hear the footsteps, the clarion call to sanity and conservatism.

    There are other elections coming (2 yrs., 4 yrs, etc.) and we must work hard to elect true conservatives, rather than idiots who have an R label. We must keep those we recently elected informed of our desires to have this country protected, borders secure, taxes reduced, government regulation reduced, individual liberties strengthened and restored, etc.

  • cam1

    are truly elitists and belong to the most exclusive country club in the world, the U.S. Senate. The only way to get rid of them is in a grass roots movement that puts good, strong conservative candidates against them in GOP state primaries. We have one in Georgia who needs to be retired.

  • gumbeaux

    We need to just give up to these “GOP” Senators. Vote no confidence and start over with them. They just don’t get it! They went in there with a mandate in November and they are already selling out to BO and his schemes. To quote a famous literary queen….”off with their heads!”

  • davesinsanantonio

    to be a RINO. And, you can’t trust them for anything else. If we can get those in the Senate with military backgrounds to tell the RINOs that this is a bad treaty, maybe we can get them on board. But, we must tell all of them that as much as we want the tax cuts extended, we do not want to jeopardize our country to get them. We must tell them that we need and want national security, and that an anti-missile defense is the way to go. And, to give that away to the Russians, and also make us vulnerable to the other nuclear nutcases in the world, is suicide just waiting to happen.

  • ihateliberals

    when we need them. We can’t just sit around now that the elections have been won. The election wasn’t the end of the War it was just the first battle. The GOP has got to get the message that We the people are serious. They don’t have that message yet. They are going right back to politics as usual with disregard for the public desires. It is time for the Tea Party or some group with guts to set these people straight. Please God send another huge snow storm to shut congress down for the next three weeks. At least that way we know they are screwing up something. The longer they are out of session the better off the American public is. To get to the subject here the real enemy now is China, N Korea, Iran and any other country that has Nukes. California is more of a threat to our security than Russia is. Putin just wants to lure us to our knees so their buddies can build their weapons and we can’t. And as for them saying Reagan would have signed this treaty is like saying Hitler was really a nice guy. Saying it doesn’t make it so. Reagan wuld have told Putin the same thing he told Gorbachev; Sit down and shut up or I’ll blow you off the map.

  • scottb

    Erickson would complain if being hung with a new rope. The Bush tax cut need to be made permanent and the Govt. needs to be funded..These are the first two things that need to be accomplished this year, If those tax cuts expire you can give up any hope of jobs and getting this country back on it’s feet. That’s the reason jobs are few and far between now is that businesses don’t know which way to turn. And the Govt. has to be funded.
    Any thing else can be handled by the new congress after the first of the year.
    Get your priorities straight Erickson!

  • http://opinerlog.blogspot.com jdelaney3

    It’s hard enough trying to monitor Democratic Socialist shennanigans, but having to continually look over my shoulder to see what mayhem our RINO “representatives” are perpetrating is dispiriting, esasperating and downright draining.

    While I’m praying that the infusion of newly elected conservatives like Rand Paul et. al. patriots on the Hill will restore philosophical integrity and sanity within Republican ranks, I’m not at all hopeful. Enemies of the Republic are everywhere and on both sides of the proverbial aisle.

    If constitutional and economic order aren’t restored soon under Republican leadership, the 2-party system really is all over. A third party representing the majority right-of-center electorate will be our only recourse.

  • dmccracken

    …. It is binding on our country. It is not Erik who has his priorities screwed up, it is the Senate which may very well vote on this treaty during the lame duck session.

    Another point is that even if they defer it to 2011, the composition of the Senate hasn’t changed enough to necessarily block this if the RINOS go along.

    The tax cuts and funding of the government should be the first priority, but if they are cutting deals to sell our national security down the river, that is also going to have lasting effect.

  • scottb

    Yes Erik priorities are screw up. let the new congress deal with national security. The senate will have more power to deal with the Democrats and the house will be Republican led, so any thing that can be put off until the new congress is sworn in the better,
    Right now the Bush tax cuts and funding the govt. is the priority. I stand behind the GOP to do the right thing. Even with the Republican 42 vote promise to Reid I doubt it will be enough.