Russia warns the Senate to just pass the START treaty already

Is the Senate deliberate or dysfunctional? It seems to becoming more and more dysfunctional. Various Republicans are objecting to the new treaty with Russia to reduce the nuclear arms amount by 30% from the previous limit and establish new methods for arms inspection, which have not happened since last year, after the expiration of the previous treaty. President Obama wishes to get the accord passed before January, as the chances of passage would decrease with the new Congress. Obviously Russia is getting a little ticked and says that negotiations cannot be reopened.

I swear our government is trying to become black and white (more like blue and red, but whatever) with one side against the other just because it seems. Arms reduction is pretty darn important to try to keep some sense of world peace, but it seems that some want US dominations of some sort. Keeping the peace with a big stick isn't going to work when everyone has big sticks also. Maybe there is something I don't know, but arms reduction sounds pretty good to me. Plus, they are going to go out of date as soon as I come up with the N2 bomb (A Neon Genesis Evangelion reference in case you don't know, oh wait, that is everyone pretty much)- which is pretty much an ecofriendly nuke- and then I come up with an Eva unit (another geek reference). Jokes aside, can anyone tell me the down side of the treaty, I would like to know. And what do you think of the way our fair government is doing and handling the treaty?

- a G.U. from the King of Spirals