One way or another we got snookered on START
Sen. Kyl said. “We got snookered on missile defense. … We got snookered on tactical nuclear weapons. We got snookered on verification.”
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But growing Republican anger over the amount of business Democrats have crammed into the final weeks of the current legislative session further eroded support for the treaty. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and Senator Lindsey Graham both said on Sunday they would vote against the pact.
“If you really want to have a chance of passing START, you’d better start over and do it in the next Congress because this lame-duck has been poisoned,” Graham said, referring to the legislative session that followed the November congressional elections.
But Vice President Joe Biden and other top Democrats expressed confidence they would ultimately have the votes to approve the pact.
“I don’t know whether it was because of a lack of direction from the commander-in-chief or poor negotiation, but one way or another we got snookered,” Kyl said. “We got snookered on missile defense. … We got snookered on tactical nuclear weapons. We got snookered on verification.”
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