In an shocking report Jake Tapper of ABCNews has revealed that Obama's plan regarding the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia due to expire in December of this year might not get worked out in time to be approved by the Senate, as required by the Constitution, so Obama may just sidestep that bothersome little requirement and enforce it on "an executive level".
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.
"[A]dministration lawyers are exploring the "different options that are available. One option is that both sides could agree to continue the inspections by executive agreement; that would work on our side" ...said White House Coordinator for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Security and Arms Control Gary Samore.
"[A]dministration lawyers are exploring the "different options that are available. One option is that both sides could agree to continue the inspections by executive agreement; that would work on our side" ...said White House Coordinator for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Security and Arms Control Gary Samore.
With such a strong and trustworthy leader as Obama why not just dispense witht he Constitution altogether and give him all the power he wants for as long as he wants it? I mean, just look how well that system has worked in Cuba, and Venezuela.
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