"You Old Gimp, It's Nice To See You! Now Roll Your Ass Outta Here While We Go Nuts And Vote Against You."

(Excerpted from an article by Lawrence Downs in the NY Times, sent by a faithful reader.  Thank you, faithful reader!  Link to the full article http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/from-republicans-a-parting-slap-at-bob-dole-and-disabled-americans/?ref=disabilities )
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"Former Senator Bob Dole, 89 years old and in a wheelchair, went onto to the floor of the Senate today to urge his former colleagues to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities. Mr. Dole, a disabled veteran, has been one of the leading voices urging ratification of the treaty, which seeks to bring the world closer to the high standard set by the Americans with Disabilities Act, the landmark civil-rights law enacted under President George H.W. Bush.

"One by one, the senators approached Mr. Dole to pat his shoulder or clasp his hand, making gestures of respect for the man who was for many years the Republican majority leader.

"Then he was wheeled away, and all but a handful of the Republicans bailed out on him. The treaty failed. "
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As the full article points out, the vote failed because only 8 Republican Senators voted for it.  Why?  It's a U.N. treaty and true conservatives hate the U.N., because America doesn't always get its way with all those other unruly nations.

Tweedledumb & Tweedledumber

It also failed because the Senate Tea-Bag contingent was willingly bamboozled by a crackpot conspiracy theory put forth by those two beacons of truth and reason, Glenn Beck and Rick Santorum:  This U.N. treaty is a world-wide plot to kill disabled kids!  Santorum said it would mean that "the government, not parents, would decide the fate of children with disabilities."  He said it would have meant the death of his own disabled daughter.  Beck called the treaty "Orwellian, fascist, Nazi."

Wow!  Even for such a pair of charlatans, that's some real Grade-A horseshit, fellas!

After the vote, Sen. John Kerry said it was "one of the saddest days I’ve seen in almost 28 years in the Senate."

Bob Dole was probably saying to himself, "I don't recognize this place.  Where the hell am I?  I thought I was going to the U.S. Senate, but this must be the funny farm."