New START: Tea Party Targets Lugar? And Could GOP Be “Beyond Redemption”?

The New York Times profiles Sen. Dick Lugar , whose support for the New START treaty with Russia has him in the sights of the Tea Party: … the New Start treaty, under which the United States and Russia would pare their nuclear arsenals and resume lapsed mutual inspections, [is] a signature foreign policy goal of the Obama administration. Republican colleagues have opposed the treaty and would prefer to push the matter into the 112th Congress, which begins in January, potentially dooming it….

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