Sen. Kyl Shoots Down START Treaty

[Yeggo]

OK, so it's a bad pun, but what am I missing here? It enjoys bipartisan support, OVERWHELMING public support... it's pretty clearly a case of "let's not let Obama do this," right? Like when the GOP pushed back nominees for months and months before overwhelmingly confirming them... only MUCH more important.

http://conversation101.squarespace.com/russia/2010/11/16/kyl-shoots-down-start-treaty.html

[Enrique]

1. playing politics with nukes

Kyl and the GOP should be made to pay a price for this. The dems and the press should be screaming bloody murder.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Kyl wants more money spent on nuclear weapons

But while Republicans have criticized the treaty, the main obstacle has been Mr. Kyl’s insistence that it be paired with an expansive investment in modernizing the current nuclear weapons complex. The administration has committed to spending $80 billion program to do that over the next 10 years, but Mr. Kyl has sought more money and greater assurance that the money would come through in future years.

In recent days, the administration dangled an additional $4 billion in hopes of winning his support, but Mr. Kyl held out. The administration has also promised to spend more than $100 billion over 10 years upgrading the triad of nuclear weapons: submarines, bombers and missiles.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/senate-leader-deals-blow-to-president-on-arms-treaty/?hp

Fuck, they're spending too much on weapons they won't use already, they've offered to spend even more, and Kyl still insists it's not enough. So much for 'fiscal responsibility' - he wants useless spending, and he wants it now!

[Johonny]

3. they plan on using them

they want bunker busting small arms nuclear weapons and have no moral problem about using them.

[blondeatlast]

4. Watch Kyl closely; they are grooming him as another McCain only even more subservient to the

rabid warmongering RW of the ReBPs.