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JammieWearingFool: King Obama Wants to Bypass Senate Ratification of U.S.-Russia Arms Treaty
Hot Air » Top Picks: Obama: Hey, let’s bypass the Senate on treaty ratifications
Instapundit: ANOTHER “CRISIS” REQUIRING EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES! US-Russian Arms Negotiators “Under the Gun,” Mig…
King Obama Wants to Bypass Senate Ratification of U.S.-Russia Arms Treaty
JammieWearingFool —
Yeah, why bother with pesky little things like the Constitution? You're King Obama, you can do as you please. I guess the Senate is too busy helping you wreck our economy to be bother with such trivial matters as arms treaties with one of our enemies. With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing ...
Obama: Hey, let’s bypass the Senate on treaty ratifications
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... After listening to the Democrats screech for the last two years about the rule of law, this Jake Tapper report should be surprising …. but it’s not. Apparently, Barack Obama finds treaty ratification a little too complicated, and so he figures he can just commit the US to nuclear disarmament and bypass Congressional oversight: With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily ...
ANOTHER “CRISIS” REQUIRING EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES! US-Russian Arms Negotiators “Under the Gun,” Mig…
Instapundit —
... ANOTHER “CRISIS” REQUIRING EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES! US-Russian Arms Negotiators “Under the Gun,” Might Temporarily Bypass Senate Ratification for Treaty. ...
Obama May Ignore Constitution, Rule by Decree
Blogs For Victory —
No, I’m not kidding:
With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive levels and a “provisional basis” until the Senate ratifies the treaty.
If isn’t ratified then it isn’t a treaty and thus isn’t ...
Obama - “Eh, Who Needs To Follow The Constitution”
Flopping Aces —
... With all the wailing about Bush supposedly doing things his own way and not by the rule of law I wonder if those same people will have a problem with this: (h/t ...
Obama administration: Throw out the Constitution, please
Yourish.com —
... The Obama administration is talking about deliberately going against the Constitution of the United States. Because, you see, the Constitution is inconvenient to what they want to do regarding a treaty with Russia. ...
Sunday reading: Dispatches from the upper one
Ben Smith's Blog —
... lawyer to hammer the Times, HuffPo, WaPo and MSNBC in particular.
…isn't muzzling Shannyn Moore.
…perplexes Rove, Huckabee.
…is as qualified as Obama to be president, says Kristol.
Plus, deviancy exclusivity defined down. And People has the scoop, as it were, on father-in-law Jim Palin.
Meanwhile, in the world outside of Alaska:
Tapper says arms negotiators may cut a provisional deal that (at least teporarily) bypasses the Senate.
Did Biden give Israel ...
Obama: Senate Shhmenate
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] From ABC : With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive levels and a provisional basis until the Senate ratifies the treaty. All the links and commentary by the Anchoress over at ...
Aw, Who Needs that Whole Senate Ratification Anyhow?
The Sundries Shack —
... Errr… is this legal ? MOSCOW — With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive levels and a “provisional basis” until the Senate ratifies the treaty.“The most ideal situation would be to finish it in time that it could be submitted to the Senate so that it can ...
The Kenyan in Moscow
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
... As Jake Tapper reported, the administration has already announced that a plan to implement the renegotiated Treaty in advance of the Senate's ratification. ...
SHOCKER: God-Emperor tramples the Constitution!
Cold Fury —
Again , I mean: MOSCOW — With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive levels and a “provisional basis” until the Senate ratifies the treaty. So? It’s not as if the illegitimate Obama junta ever had any intention of ruling by Constitutional principle ...
Who needs a Congress
Southern Appeal —
During the Bush administration, it was not unusual to hear constitutionally illiterate folks screaming about Bush’s ideas on the “unitary executive.” The term does not mean what those people thought it meant, but it didn’t stop them from acting as though Bush was gently preparing the way for an autocratic regime. Enter Barack Obama, and suddenly we find ourselves governed by a president who does seem to think he shouldn’t be bothered by pesky little contirvances such as “checks and balances.” With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous ...
Unratifiable treaties and intransigence
Fausta's Blog —
... pertains to this: US-Russian Arms Negotiators “Under the Gun,” Might Temporarily Bypass Senate Ratification for Treaty ...
What they are, what they do, how they operate
Cold Fury —
... so we cannot commit to something that intrudes on the powers of other bodies,” former Supreme Court President Vilma Morales told The Associated Press. “We cannot make commitments that ignore the jurisdiction of the electoral tribunal, and it is also up to Congress to discuss and legislate and issue a decree on moving up the elections.” Wow, what a shocking disregard for the rule of law on the part of this illegitimate junta , eh? Our current Supreme Leader could definitely take a lesson on Constitutional government from these brave, incorruptible Hondurans. ...
