Republicans' auto response to U.N. always no
Lewis DiuguidSaying “United Nations” to Republicans in the Senate generates the same instant, auto response as walking most dogs by a fire hydrant.
Male dogs will automatically lift their leg and pee on the hydrant. Republican senators have the same auto response to bills involving the U.N. whether its the current one on the rights of people with disabilities or rights of women or the rights of children.
It came as no surprise that despite former Sen. Bob Dole’s presence in a wheelchair on the Senate floor that the Senate couldn’t gin up enough votes to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Sixty-six votes were needed, but only 61 senators voted for the treaty. Also voting against it were Dole’s own red-state comrades, Sens. Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran.
There is only one word for their actions in front of former Sen. Dole — shameful.
JR Beillenhouser
5 months, 2 weeks agoThe UN is a joke. It’s policies are something we should want nothing of. The intent was good, but the reality is something completely different. Haaa, I just read that last sentence and the thought came to me that that is exactly the same for Liberals.
Reginald Thornton
5 months, 2 weeks agoIronic. The KC Star’s criticism against Republicans is to claim they have a knee jerk reaction to all things UN. No counterargument to the concerns actually voiced by Republicans. Instead only a knee jerk defense of…. wait for it…. all things UN. Ironic. Pathetic, yes, but also ironic.
Mark Hastert
5 months, 2 weeks ago” No counterargument to the concerns actually voiced by Republicans.”
OK here’s one. Their “concerns” were contrived and baseless. There was no mechanism in the treaty to force the US to do anything at all. Santorum and the Teas got a bunch of uninformed people worked up and took advantage of them with scare tactics. No nothings like Santorum et al are an embarrassment to anyone who is literate enough to read.
Phil Cardarella
5 months, 1 week agoIncredible cowardice by three of our Senators. Or is Rick Santorum the intellectual head of the GOP now?
Let us look on the bright side: Perhaps this will propel Santorum to the GOP nomination in 2016. That would certainly be the bright side — for Democrats.