FAT CHANCE WE'LL LIFT A FINGER – AT 9:31 A.M. ET:  Russia has apparently violated an important arms-control treaty.  Ho hum.  Can that possibly be as important as Obama's "reset" with Russia?  Of course not.  From The Hill:

Republicans said Thursday the Obama administration should take action over an apparent Russian violation of the treaty banning testing of medium-range missiles.

Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee issued a statement slamming the administration for ignoring the Russian treaty violation and not acting.

“If the Administration wishfully waves away blatant infractions on current agreements, how are we supposed to trust future pacts?” Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) and three GOP subcommittee chairs asked in a statement.

“Since 2012, Congress has pushed the Administration to take Russian cheating on nuclear treaties seriously,” the committee members said. “We have been ignored, as has Russia’s material breach of the central arms control treaty of the nuclear era. Treaties are meaningless unless both sides sign in good faith.”

The New York Times reported Thursday the United States informed its NATO allies this month that Russia had tested a new ground-launched cruise missile, in violation of the 1987 treaty signed by President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Obama administration officials have pressed the Russians on the tests, according to the report. But the Russians said they investigated and considered the case closed, and the U.S. was not ready to formally declare the missile tests had violated the treaty.

COMMENT:  Hardly a day goes by without another expression of American weakness.  But, of course, Obama doesn't see it that way.  He is a leftist, nurtured by the left from the day he was born.  He sees our weakness as a gain for the world.  The sad fact is, there are too many people of influence in the United States who agree with him.

January 31, 2014