Check with
your former colleagues, Secretary Kerry: there was no point to signing this treaty, because it will not be
ratified.
Secretary of State John
Kerry is expected to sign an arms trade treaty opposed by the Senate and the
gun lobby as early as Wednesday, and Republicans aren’t happy about it.
[snip]
“This treaty is already dead
in the water in the Senate, and they know it,” said Sen. James Inhofe
(R-Okla.), the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services. “The Administration
is wasting precious time trying to sign away our laws to the global community
and unelected U.N. bureaucrats.”
A majority of
Senators oppose the treaty because it covers small arms, making ratification
impossible in the short term.
So let me correct the Hill: Republicans and a critical number of Democrats
aren’t happy about this bill, given that Inhofe got 53 votes opposing signing
this thing. I am morally certain that most of the people reading this know that
you need 67 yea votes in the Senate to ratify a treaty: why doesn’t Barack
Obama?....To Read More.....
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