GOP Senators Invoke Christmas In Order To Pointlessly Obstruct The START Treaty Jason Linkins
jason@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting
First Posted: 12-15-10 04:58 PM | Updated: 12-15-10 04:58 PM
Senators looking to pointlessly obstruct the re-ratification of the START treaty -- something that virtually everyone outside of Washington's radical-moron set understands to be vital to our national security -- have decided to use Christmas as their excuse in an effort to preserve their precious time off from the work they don't do a good job of doing, ever.
Mind you, no one in the world is asking senators to actually come to work on Christmas. But opponents of START have very strategically marked off the calendar to create a holiday-themed "no-go zone" for considering the treaty. First, we have Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.):
GOP Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl quickly took offense to the notion that legislators might be expected to work after December 25 and accused Reid of potentially "disrespecting one of the two holiest of holidays for Christians."
"It is impossible to do all of the things that the majority leader laid out without doing -- frankly, without disrespecting the institution and without disrespecting one of the two holiest of holidays for Christians and the families of all of the Senate, not just the senators themselves but all of the staff," Kyl said in response to Reid's claim that he would force the body to work through the holiday recess in order to vote on a number of key Democratic agenda items including Obama's START nuclear arms treaty, the DREAM Act, a bill that would overturn the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and a highly contentious spending bill that would authorize federal spending for next year.