START Passes Senate Overwhelmingly

I'd say the Repugs in the Senate aren't actually as stupid as they look, but then, no one could be that stupid.

START Moves!

From TPM: Senate Breaks GOP Filibuster On START Nuclear Treaty

Kyl is a Moron

From the NYT:

Kyl was complaining that the treaty deals only with strategic nuclear
weapons (on long-range bombers, submarines or intercontinental
missiles) and not with tactical nukes (the typically lower-yield,
...shorter-range warheads used to aid conventional forces in battle). One
reason this is troubling, according to Kyl, is that Russia is so
trigger-happy; whereas America views its nukes as a deterrent, he said, “to the Russians, tactical nuclear weapons are a battlefield weapon, just like artillery.”

Now, if Russia really did see tactical nuclear weapons as “just like artillery,” then sometime du...ring the 1980s Afghanistan would have become a 250,000-square-mile expanse of warm glass.

Cue Randy Newman's 'Political Science'....

Boom goes London, and Boom Paree...'

Okay, okay, I get it!

I get it! We can't shoot em all. Can we just shoot a couple of em, then? :)

Daily Kos: Biden to GOP: Quit whining about taking vacation and do your job

Gee, they've dragged their feet, obstructed, filibustered, and in general done everything they could to slow down the process, if not drag it to a halt, and now they whine they may have to work during Xmas vacation. Have I said fuck them all lately?

Anyone Wanna Lay Odds on this Working? Anyone?

Five former Repug Sec/States wrote an op-ed in WaPo today.  Think this will penetrate the tiny lizard brains of what passes for current Repug Senators?

Scowcroft Mystified

Well, frustrated is more like. He seems to nail the reason for Repug intransigence pretty well:

"It's not clear to me what it is," said Brent Scowcroft, a former national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush who noted that this START treaty is not very different from previous ones negotiated and ratified under Republican presidents. "I've got to think that it's the increasingly partisan nature and the desire for the president not to have a foreign policy victory."

Sums it up. Fuck the country or, in this case, the world, we want Obama to fail.