Jon Kyl betrays America's nuclear security in order to service the rich

[MrScorpio]

Kyl Links Tax Cut Vote To Nuclear Weapons

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.

One exasperated GOP aide admitted to the National Review “the two are completely unrelated.” Instead of just allowing a vote to go through and approaching the treaty and US national security, as something above the standard political games of domestic politics, Kyl is willing to potentially risk nuclear security so people making over $250,000 have a tax cut.

After Kyl signaled that he would obstruct the treaty earlier this month, the entire top brass of the U.S. military, and a who’s who of Republican foreign policy leaders (including Colin Powell today), as well as the editorial boards of more than 40 newspapers across the country, ripped Kyl directly for trying to obstruct the treaty and for putting politics above nuclear security. Kyl and Senate Republicans now appear to have backed down and seem supportive of a START vote in the lame duck

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

[jemelanson]

1. What a useless piece of garbage? I hope that the people of

Arizona of proud of this thug that values the rich over the security of our nation...Between Kyl and McCain the people of AZ are out of luck...given their Governor and her Republican Death Panel....wonder just how many low income citizens she is going to sacrifice and how long the people of Arizona are going to allow this travesty to continue.


I am so glad that I did not leave anything in Arizona when I lived there in the 1970's because I would not want to have to go back there and retrieve it.

[lonestarnot]

2. Satan himself lives in AZ, and I'm not talking Mick Jagger.

[FarLeftRage]

3. he's an unpatriotic motherfucker... pure and simple

this piece of filth should not even be in position to pull this shit... yet, there he is, because of the ignorant dumb bastards that voted for him... disgusting...