Part 12 (1/2)

Pat Toomey (R-PA)

Dean h.e.l.ler (R-NV)61

But what we really need to focus on is the ones who did not affix their signatures.

Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and d.i.c.k Lugar (R-IN) have publicly endorsed the treaty. That leaves these senators as uncommitted:

Bob Corker (R-TN)

Lindsay Graham (R-SC)

Lamar Alexander (R-TN)

Thad Cochran (R-MS)

Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)

Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)

Scott Brown (R-MA)

Olympia Snowe (R-ME)

Susan Collins (R-ME)

Likely RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) Snowe and Collins of Maine are going to back the treaty, all the more so since Snowe is retiring.

A bunch of senators from conservative southern states-Alexander (TN), Cochran (MS), Graham (SC), and Hutchison (TX, but retiring)-may be subject to pressure.

Murkowski from Alaska might feel she needs to vote for the treaty because of her worry about Russian Arctic claims. But can she be deluded enough to think that the UN would rule in our favor?

Scott Brown of Ma.s.sachusetts comes from a liberal northern state and it will be harder for him to vote no, but he's a man of deep conservative convictions and well might stand up for American sovereignty.

But the larger point is that the ball is in our court. It is not Blue Dog Democrats we must persuade but Republicans who trumpet their conservatism. It is within the Red States and among the Red Senators that we must find courageous members willing to vote no.

If you live in one of the states where these senators are from, go to work! Our sovereignty depends on it!

PART FOUR

THE UN TRIES TO REGULATE THE INTERNET

Authoritarian regimes throughout the world, including China, Russia, Iran, and the Arab nations, are trying to hijack an obscure UN agency, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), to take over the Internet and give them the power to regulate its content and restrict its usage.