Article II, Section 2, paragraph 2 of the United States Constitution states:

[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

But it’s another typical day in the Obama administration so the Constitution be damned.  The United States and the Soviet Union need to finish the new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5th and Gary Samore, White House Coordinator for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Security and Arms Control today said that “…that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive level and a “provisional basis” until the Senate ratifies the treaty.”

Mind you, the two countries have had 18 years to think about and prepare for this.  President Obama has had over 5 months to prepare for this.

But it’s easier and oh-so-convenient to call the poor planning of prioritizing distracting directives to Congress to force cap and trade and health care “reform” onto Americans an emergency so as to feebly justify using executive privilege; though I fear that his idea of complying will be by the “2/3 of the Senators present” at some 3 a.m. session after Obama and his buddies wrap up a cozy little White House dinner party.

This administration is no longer an embarrassment.  It is a travesty.