Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming doesn’t want the START Treaty because it’ll send the wrong message to…

The Soviet Union.

If I had a nickel for every time a US politician referenced the Soviet Union as a current entity over the course of the past decade…
And if I had a dime for every time a US politician referenced the Soviet Union as a current entity over  the course of the past decade in manners that suggested something other than a slip of the tongue, I’d have the same amount of money as I had with the nickels.

This sounds about right.

I swear that this will probably pass the Lame Duck session, that just the correct number of Republicans will come in for Responsibility’s sake and this is a game to make President Obama sweat, and frustrate anything else that could filter through the Lame Duck Session.

I’ve eyed Barrasso a bit, and his name and face has popped up a few times.  He was initially appointed by Wyoming’s last Governor under a rule where the state legislator throws three names to the governor from which to select.  So it is the Democratic governor had his selection of three Republicans.  Who were the other two contenders, and did either of them credit President Reagan for ending the Cold War?

Clever Obstructionism…
Supposedly the Republican group who’d vote to Repeal “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” are hanging out for procedural purposes — for some reason, they really want two weeks of floor debate — because this does something respectable to the Institution, or something.
Or maybe it just drags some time out for the Lame Duck session?
Differences between Truman and the Integration of the Armed Forces and this:  Truman’s policy was unpopular.  (Numbers shift around here in 2010 from 50 to 58 to 70 to 78, depending on exact wordage, and suggestions of possibilities of what “revoking” it means seems to come in with that 78 figure — ie, maybe 50 percent want it lifted to allow gays to serve openly, while a quarter would just as soon have them all court-marshalled.)

Time’s a ticking before the Republicans can finally serve the People’s Prioritized Mission and defund NPR.

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