Kyl Links Tax Cut Vote To Nuclear Weapons

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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/01/kyl-link/

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) said Wednesday that he is going to hold the nuclear security of the United States hostage in order to pass the tax cuts for rich. Kyl said Obama must reach a deal on extending the Bush tax cuts by Monday if a nuclear arms treaty has a chance of passing the Senate by the end of the year:

Kyl said if negotiators don’t reach a deal on the Bush taxes within a week “then you’re not going to have time to do START.”… The emerging conventional wisdom has been that Senate Republicans would agree to ratify START if Obama and Democratic leaders agreed to a temporary extension of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.