GOP declares "War on the Disabled", Santorum to lead the charge

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

hahahaha, the American senate fails to ratify a UN treaty on the rights of the disabled? hahahaha, are you guys even serious? I'm literally lost for words.

I especially love Inks and Ernest in this thread. Keep up the good work, guys!

The US didn't ratify the UN Convention on the rights of the child - a proud rejection it shares worldwide only with Somalia.

Well your attack is clearly non-partisan, just "America sucks", since that Convention was over 23 years ago.....I wonder why all the subsequent sessions of the Senate still haven't ratified it?  Maybe the cutsie feel good name doesn't justify what's inside? Same with this treaty. 

So we're against children's rights and hate the disabled, right, Gully? 

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

America doesn't suck.
But the reasoning that led to this rejection does.
We certainly don't hate disabled people in other countries. 
We just don't particularly care about them.
After all, opting out of being on a committee to hear about their plight is a really effective way to wield our influence. 

(insert long string of curse words)

Maybe they should follow our lead, anvi?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Maybe they should follow our lead, anvi?

They are following our lead.  The provisions of the treaty are modeled on the Americans with Disabilities Act.  But when we're asked to do nothing more than have a rep on the Convention Committee the treaty proposes to hear and adjudicate cases of discrimination on an international body, we concoct a bunch of abjectly bulls*t reasons, and that's exactly what they are, bulls*t, just so we can give a big vain fat middle finger to the UN.  That's not leadership.  That's just us acting like a bunch of rutting asses, claiming to be models of human rights while overtly blowing off disabled people around the world.  This isn't a partisan point.  Ask Bush 41, ask Bob Dole, ask John McCain, ask George W. Bush, who instructed his UN ambassador to be a signatory to the thing when it was first proposed.

This outcome is really bogus.  Totally f*#king bogus   That is all.

Why hasn't it been subsequently ratified.....we've had libs leading the Senate more than long enough to get it done, anvi?   I guess what I'm objecting to hear is the title of the thread.....both parties are to blame.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Maybe they should follow our lead, anvi?

They are following our lead.  The provisions of the treaty are modeled on the Americans with Disabilities Act.  But when we're asked to do nothing more than have a rep on the Convention Committee the treaty proposes to hear and adjudicate cases of discrimination on an international body, we concoct a bunch of abjectly bulls*t reasons, and that's exactly what they are, bulls*t, just so we can give a big vain fat middle finger to the UN.  That's not leadership.  That's just us acting like a bunch of rutting asses, claiming to be models of human rights while overtly blowing off disabled people around the world.  This isn't a partisan point.  Ask Bush 41, ask Bob Dole, ask John McCain, ask George W. Bush, who instructed his UN ambassador to be a signatory to the thing when it was first proposed.

This outcome is really bogus.  Totally f*#king bogus   That is all.

Why hasn't it been subsequently ratified.....we've had libs leading the Senate more than long enough to get it done, anvi?   I guess what I'm objecting to hear is the title of the thread.....both parties are to blame.

All Democrats voted in favor of the treaty, not to mention that Democrats have not had 67 seats in the Senate at any time in recent history.

When?  Yes, I know they haven't had that many seats but surely in modern times there have been enough moderate pubs to go along.........oh well.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Very interesting.......thanks, Franzl.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I know few care about McCain anymore but I thought he might bring a couple extra votes with him.