Law of the Sea Treaty Dead

Like a Zombie, it could rise again … But for now, it’s dead.

Jim DeMint writes today on his Senate blog that the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) now has enough Senators opposing it to kill it this year:

4 additional senators have joined in opposition to LOST, including Mike Johanns (R-NE), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Rob Portman (R-OH) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA). With 34 senators against the misguided treaty, LOST will not be ratified by the Senate this year.

HURRAY!

And hopefully future years, when we have a natural born US President, who is not an anti-Colonialist.

4 additional senators have joined in opposition to LOST, including Mike Johanns (R-NE), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Rob Portman (R-OH) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA). With 34 senators against the misguided treaty, LOST will not be ratified by the Senate this year.

Strong opposition is rising in the U.S. Senate to the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) that would subjugate American sovereignty to the whims of an international tribunal. To date, 30 Republican senators have signed onto a letter opposing LOST. It takes 67 votes to approve treaties in the Senate, so only 34 votes are needed to ensure defeat of this misguided treaty.

Notice the global warming hoax is tied up in there in a harmful to the USA way.

Why is LOST so harmful?

• It would act as a backdoor Kyoto Protocol, forcing us into cap and trade policies that would destroy jobs and harm our economy.
• It would cost the U.S. trillions of dollars in international royalties to nations including state sponsors of terror like Sudan and “undemocratic, despotic or brutal governments in Belarus, Burma, China or Zimbabwe.”
• Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton warned it would embolden China, “constrain U.S. naval activities, and do nothing to resolve China’s expansive maritime territorial claims.”
• Radical environmental groups have lined up in support of LOST.
• President Ronald Reagan strongly opposed the treaty as a threat to U.S. sovereignty.

The LOST was a bad idea from the start. The treaty is bad for American energy policy and unnecessary for the U.S. Navy. It creates more problems than it solves.

Thank goodness Portman and Ayotte have stepped up to the plate to protect American sovereignty and pledged to opposed this wrong-headed idea. And who thought Obama wanted good for America, what a dolt they are.

And how about our Senator Nelson? Yep he says it’s OK with him.

 

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