This is troubling

The White House is talking about bypassing the Senate’s Constitutional role:

With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said 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 levels and a “provisional basis” until the Senate ratifies the treaty.

I think about this, and find myself hoping that they really don’t mean that. Admittedly, since this is the armed forces, and Obama is Commander in Chief, they can do this easily. But, it shows a lack of respect for the Constitutional process (and I question its legality). With this attitude. they could sign any treaty they want, and enforce it, without ratification by the Senate (just don’t let it go up for a vote). Instead, they should be requesting consideration from the Senate to review and vote on ratifying it as soon as it is signed.