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It gets better: Ron Kyl (R-AZ) is
now linking a vote on the START II treaty to a deal on keeping the tax cuts for the rich in place until at least the next presidential election. He is literally playing a game of chicken with our nation's existence. As Prime Minister Putin put it to Larry King, voting against the treaty is, "Dumb." But then we have dumb and dumber in this country, and some of the latter occupy Senate seats. There is a report from the State Department that a deal to bring the treaty to the floor on December 13th for ratification is close, but Kyl's insistence on tax breaks for the rich remains a sticking point.
