the party of mean-> Senate Republicans Vote Down International Disabilities Treaty

[sasha031]

The U.S. Senate today killed the ratification of a United Nations treaty designed to improve the prospects of those with disabilities around the world by a vote of 61-38, ending the best chance of any significant treaty making its way through the lame duck session. All “no” votes came from Republicans and the measure fell just five votes short of achieving the two-thirds of the Senate approval required for passage.

In voting down the Convention on the Rights of People with Disability, Senate Republicans have rejected a treaty based principally around the United States’ own Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which passed 91-6 in 1990. The major provisions of the treaty were modeled after ADA’s requirements of providing equal access to all citizens regardless of disability; it’s passage also would have given the United States a seat on a committee charged with aiding in implementation.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/12/04/1279921/senate-republicans-vote-down-international-disabilities-treaty/

[dballance]

1. Way to go GOP. Good way to lose another voting block and their families and supporters.

Did you want to start kicking canes out from under people now too? Maybe take some of those wheel-chair ramps out of public places. Hell, if you can't pull yourself up why should you be able to be there?

[JaneyVee]

2. Their logo should be changed from an elephant to a wooly mammoth.

[sasha031]

3. the GOP voted this down because they believed the UN would take away their sovereignty

which would effect their ability to home school kids.
part of the nut Agenda 21 conspiracy.
How do you govern with people like this?

[moondust]

4. NBC reported fear of being primaried by anti-UN loons scared off some Republicans.

Pathetic.