P.M. Carpenter calls out the naked partisanship of the GOP:

Had this precise treaty been up for Senate ratification four years ago, they would have hailed it as a Bushian triumph of Talleyrandian proportions; Reagan vindicated, Metternich invoked -- and Senate Democrats, en masse, and like adults, would have peeplessly ratified the necessary thing.

Yet the hardcore-base-pandering nakedness of the GOP leadership's breath-holding resistance to Start screams for no further clarity when one ponders this simple juxtaposition: on the pro-treaty side, there are former GOP Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and James Baker, as well as George H.W. Bush's former national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft; on the other, anti-treaty side, there are -- all alone -- the ... tea party types.

 Greg Sargent counts noses: