Republicans: "Help the disabled? Must be a conspiracy!!"

[Gerald McGrew]

http://seattletimes.com/html/politics/2 ... reaty.html

Republican opposition downs UN disability treaty

Led by Republican opposition, the Senate on Tuesday rejected a United Nations treaty on the rights of the disabled that is modeled after the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act.

With 38 Republicans casting "no" votes, the 61-38 vote fell five short of the two-thirds majority needed to ratify a treaty...

...The treaty, already signed by 155 nations and ratified by 126 countries, including Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia, states that nations should strive to assure that the disabled enjoy the same rights and fundamental freedoms as their fellow citizens. Republicans objected to taking up a treaty during the lame-duck session of the Congress and warned that the treaty could pose a threat to U.S. national sovereignty.

"I do not support the cumbersome regulations and potentially overzealous international organizations with anti-American biases that infringe upon American society," said Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla.

Fucking insane.

[pErvinalia]

I hope every republican dies of bird flu.

[devogue]

I completely agree. It's gone too far. I'm fed up with empty disabled parking spaces outside every shop in the country.

[Ian]

Good policy can be assumed to be whatever the opposite of Senator Inhofe stands for.