What Americans really voted for last Tuesday....more nukes
When you team John Bolton (pictured above) and John Yoo, God only knows what kind of wackiness might ensue. In today's New York Times, the two Johns argue that voters sent a powerful message last week, and that message was....more nukes, please!
THE sweeping Democratic midterm losses last week raise serious questions for President Obama and a lame-duck Congress. Voters want government brought closer to the vision the framers outlined in the Constitution, and the first test could be the fate of the flawed New Start arms control treaty, which was signed by President Obama and President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia last spring but awaits ratification. The Senate should heed the will of the voters and either reject the treaty or amend it so that it doesn't weaken our national defense.
Does anyone know what election that Bolton and Yoo were watching? The percentage of voters who were even aware that the U.S, has a pending arms-reductrion treaty with Russia is certainly less than the percentage who are aware that they received a tax cut, practically less than zero. But now rejecting the treaty is the "will of the voters"? I've been told all week by the talking heads that the voters were speaking loudly for limited government. I can't think of a better way to reduce government than by safely and cooperatively reducing our nuclear arsenal -- as opposed to the government taxing your hard-earned income to pay for a stockpile that could destroy the world many times over. I don't think what Yoo and Bolton are seeking has anything to do with "the will of the voters," but it's all about American exceptionalism -- which is what Sarah Palin spoke about at length last night (more on this in a my next blog post!).
The problem here is that, according to former President George W. Bush, whatever John Yoo says is the law of the land.