In the hours after Senate Republicans spiked the UN treaty on the rights of disabled people, former Senator Rick Santorum celebrated his big win with an appeal for money so he can do more of this kind of thing.
Remixed appeal from Rick Santorum. Click to view the entire original letter.
Just so you can see the street Santorum is working, I've put my other favorite UN-hysteria=money fundraising appeal after the jump.
This one arrived Monday from the United States Justice Foundation, the cottage nonprofit industry of incoming San Diego judge and birther king Gary Kreep. For the low, low fee of $19.99, they'll fax "ALL 100 Senators & Demand They Oppose the U.N. Internet Takeover." Senior discount available for $17.99.
Click to see the entire special limited-time offer!
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Rick Santorum another lemming loudly trying to be seen making sense!! Will this party implode already!
Did you get a laugh out of this header?
Santorum thinks? Now that's comedy!
The sooner the better! This is insane.
No, Zora. Santorum should be the Republican presidentail nominee in 2016. Let's do everything we can to push them in that direction.
Now guys, if you'll lean over the edge of that building. That's right. Juuuussssst a little bit farther . . .
The Patriot Voices shows the power of Karl Rove's "wedges and win" strategy. Note that 38 Republican saluted by voting no. It's part of the "American exceptionalist" issue.
Actually, it makes sense. If the Republicans are going to be the party defending the United States against minorities, then they can't afford to overlook the handicapped.
UNDisability: Always Remember this when Republicans and the Disabled are mentioned in the same sentence?
These are the same would be slayers of their pretend giants (the United Nations), where any act of vileness easily exceeds their faint grasp on morality.
Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus; 31 August 161 – 31 December 192), was Roman Emperor from 180 to 192), ommodious is from Latin commodus meaning convenient.)
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus#Commodus_and_Hercules
From: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Commodus*.html
These twelve Republican Senators voted against humanity and are running for reelection 2014.
Alexander, Lamar - Tennessee
Chambliss, Saxby - Georgia
Cochran, Thad - Mississippi
Cornyn, John - Texas
Enzi, Mike - Wyoming
Graham, Lindsey - South Carolina
Inhofe, Jim - Oklahoma
Johanns, Mike - Nebraska
McConnell, Mitch - Kentucky
Risch, Jim - Idaho
Roberts, Pat - Kansas
Sessions, Jeff - Alabama
Nice read!
Some of your list of middle-aged (many late-middle-age. . . oh who are we fooling - most are aged) white gentlemen you list may not make it to the general election. That's how powerful the bat-crap-crazy Tea Partyers are during Republican primary season!
If any on the list go off the farm between now and then, the Tea Partyers will get their tags in order and go a hunting for "establishment" Republicans! -Kevo
Funny. I thought it meant "potty".
:D
The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.
- Arnold H. Glasow
;-)
Both of my Texas Senators, Cornyn and the outgoing Hutchison, voted against ratification. I live (of course) in the same state, and I can only hope to live long enough that I will see one of them needing a wheelchair ramp or other disability accomodation, so I can say, "What makes you think you deserve what you would deny to the rest of us?"
They already DO get something you don't, right (and that they won't have earned, imo). When they ARE voted out (or become handicapped or retire) they get paid for the rest of their lives, unlike the rest of us Americans.
It is good that RichMJones points out the 12 "no voters" who are running for re-election in 2014. Dems must recruit good candidates to run against them and raise the needed money and get the staff and volunteers to work, then we will have the "no voters" no more.
Tomorrow is not too soon to start the campaigns!
I might get blasted for saying this but doesn't Rick Santorum have a kid with a disability? It might not be a loss of a limb but it is a disability of some kind.
That was the basis of his "argument." This was all about protecting his child from the jackbooted thugs.
Arguably, having the surname Santorum is a disability, by definition (some say).
The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.
- Arnold H. Glasow
;-)
Yes, Santorum has a daughter with a severe genetic disablility, and if we lived in a just world, the public would stop paying her medical bills, after Rick Santorum barnstormed against the Affordable Care Act and demagogued against the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
In a just world, children are not punished for the misdeeds of their parents.
But she's not being punished. Santorum is a vile human being but I don't think he'd stop paying for his child's medical care just because it was no longer federally subsidized. She's getting similar care either way - it's just that Daddy Rick no longer gets the financial support he doesn't believe anyone else should have.
From what I have read about her medical bills , ricky would be flat broke and on the street if he had to pay her bills , and anyone who is not fortunate enough to be on the gov dole like he is , before the aca that is
It is another example of the libertarian gop applying libertarian gop principles to everyone else , besides themselves , just another confirmation that it's a completely fake political pholosophy
No it's just that Rick seems to oppose things that are supposed to helped the Bella Santorums of the world. He's puinishing every other parent in a similar situation but he probably follows Ayn Rand so wtf the does he care.....
Wrong. Libertarian republican is like communist democrat only the uneducated on the other side believe they exist. There are no libertarian republicans or any real libertarian ideas in their republicanism.
Bella Santorum was born with a cruel genetic disorder called Trisomy 18. There is no cure and afflicted children die before they reach adulthood. Their short lives are largely spent in hospitals. How can Rick Santorum be so obtuse?
Because he isn't paying for it, we are.
And the kid makes a great prop.
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Santorum caret decorum.
Translation from the Latin: Santorum lacks decorum.
Nice comment. You made me dredge up my high school Latin.
How about:
Santorum belua est
Santorum caret cor
Santorum est sucus ex ani
Santorum est non Sanctus.
Yeah, let's celebrate the defeat of this treaty. Go break the wheelchair ramp on a public bus! Go rip the door off a handicapped bathroom stall! Go pour concrete into a curb cut! Better yet, send me donations that you might otherwise send to research on spinal cord regeneration or cerebral palsy. The disabled have been coddled for far too long. They could pull themselves up by their bootstraps if they'd let go of the crutches long enough.
OK, the defeat was not a good thing, but you are overdramatizing here. The Americans with Disabilty Act is still the law of the land. Most of the UN stuff would apply to the entire world - and we are already doing all of the stuff in their "law" and probably more. I don't know why the Republicans voted against this, but it does not negate all the ADA laws/regulations we have here.
skip -
the treaty would have required that disabled americans, including disabled american vets, have the same rights all over the world that the ada assures they have in the usa
that was part of the point
I understand that eruhWHAT, but KAK just seemed to go overboard. Also, I really don't think that UN edicts have much bite to them anyway. Most of the time countries just look at UN pronoucements as "suggestions" anyway.
If that is true Skip (that "most of the time countries just look at UN pronouncements as "suggestions" anyway"), then you would think also that our Senators would have voted overwhelming for the treaty, but it appears they see a lot more negative weight in ratification of it.
If you check the UN site and the list of countries that have ratified the treaty as is or with certain declarations, you can see that the treaty has been looked at seriously by them.
I believe the senators should also look seriously at the details of the treaty, but the question is whether their apprehensions with signing the treaty are valid or are they reading something into the treaty that isn't there..... Or, are they just against making any agreements with the UN organization.
Eileen, I'd go with your latter suggestion. Anything that the "enemy" wants must be bad so even though they once favored Obama's positions, now they are against them. Anything that the UN proposes must be bad so they are against it.
Skip-my email was meant to be tongue in cheek, though I will say that back in the days before ADA was law, there were plenty who were (and still are) against it. Change like that can be difficult and financially challenging, but I'm of the opinion that our society - any society - is better for having undertaken the effort. I'm fully aware that the UN treaty wouldn't have negated the ADA, but it would have helped or at least encouraged the disability rights movement in other parts of the world and we could have been the leaders on that.
It is uncomfortable to see Mr. Santorum celebrating the treaty's defeat, and my post was my exaggerated version of disgust. He is a millionaire and his child, should she make it to adulthood, will never have to worry about using public transportation or being accommodated in the workplace. That's not the case for most people with disabilities.
One other thing is that if the foreign countries actually follow through and businesses in those countries now had to incur the expenses of making accommodations for people with disabilities, it would somewhat level the playing field, albeit slightly, between domestic and foreign competitors with regards to facilities costs. You would think that republicans would be for that considering they think we have too much business regulation compared to the rest of the world and in the absence of repealing regulation such as the ADA, they would be in favor of other countries adopting similar regulation. I guess this shows that their corporate overlords are multi-nationals and, you know, we can't have their short-term profit margins impacted.
Steve ill?
No, he's just taking a micro-vacation. I'm still glad we can (mostly) get him to take a break on the weekend.
I didn't fret as Mr. Benen gave us a full plate before noon! He should cut loose more often at the noon time hour! -Kevo
Good to hear he's fine.
His output is very impressive, especially when you factor in the quality of his work. Glad he's getting a break.
And a shout out to Mr Benen's staff , along with Laura and the gang , thanx
Funny thing is none of them seem held back by their own disability -- then lack of working brain cells and hearts and courage.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Please! Now, I'm going to have nightmares about Scarecrow Palin, the Tan Man and Paul Lyin'...
Does the Senate vote have any real consequences or was it purely symbolic?
The Senate refusing to ratify a treaty can have far-reaching consequences.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is an existing federal law similar to the CRPD, but without U.S. ratification, it will be considerably more difficult to pressure other countries to implement CRPD's provisions, and other countries that have not yet ratified the treaty will have less impetus to ratify.
Also, there are no doubt many Republicans and Libertarians who would like to repeal the ADA. This would be much more difficult to do if we had ratified the CRPD, since our Constitution makes any international treaty "the supreme law of the land" once the Senate has ratified it.
Rick Santorum in the Daily Beast:
"I also oppose CRPD because our nation has been the worldwide leader when it comes to protecting the disabled. We should be telling the U.N., not the other way around, how to ensure dignity and respect for the disabled."
Um, yeah, we did that. And:
"However, the United States passing this treaty would do nothing to force any foreign government to change their laws or to spend resources on the disabled. That is for those governments to decide."
OK so somehow this law would force the US to change its laws, but not any other country.
The man is incapable of even rudimentary reasoning.
"The man is incapable of even rudimentary reasoning."
Right you are.
This is the same argument that's being used to scare folks into thinking ratification of a UN treaty will take away the 2nd Amendment.
Because:
You ought to hear my boss at work, somedays.
I just shake my head.
These guys are supposed to be "defenders" of a Constitution they know absolutely nothing about.
Santorum is a real danger to the United States. His views are radical if not traitorous. Many Republicans like to speak of the anti-Christ. Well, there he is-Santorum. If he raises any further in the GOP he'll become the next Hitler.
I wouldn't call his ideas radical. Saying that implies that there is some logic to them, and I have yet to find any smidgen of logic behind anything that Frothy has said in his whole life. His views are the product of a sick and diseased mind and as such, are no more than random utterings of a wild man who has spent too much of his life alone in the wilderness talking to his shadow to the point that it now answers him.
Right on DKM! Santorum scares me. I posted some comments on his facebook and he banned me from his site. He just can't deal with the real truth. Thank God he was not the Republican candidate. They must have seen his craziness and went with Mitt.
I guess Dan Savage was right about the Rickster......
19.99? What a snag. That plus the cane defense videos are now on the Hanukkah list. If only United States Justice Foundation realized that SOPA was targeted at the other C word, copyrights.
Even if you're a Republican, or for that matter an idiot, how could you possibly see any virtue in voting against a treaty to give people the same rights in other countries that they have by law in the U.S.?
This is about the meanest thing Congress has done in years-- and that's not an easy goal to achieve.
It's staggering to consider that, after Romney, this guy had the next most credible run at the White House.
If I just blink, these peckerheads will just go away? I don't have to click
my ruby shoes or anything?
I love it. The face of the republican party is now an NWO lunatic. They've lost it.
have said it before and will say it again, just when you think the crazy theories from the conseravtives and teaparty can't get any crazier, they surprise us anew.
I shake my head and wonder why more people can't see what the Republican party has become? Doesn't asking for money make one the kind of freeloader Santorum was preaching about when he was running for the office of the President? Can't people see that Republicans have become the kind of fools they blame Democrats for? I mean is it not one thing to be a a total hypocrite but it is another thing altogether to be a complete tool? Can't these Republicans pull themselves by the very boot straps they so love to preach to everyone else about?
If they're all about protecting the internet from Barack Hussein Obama ( Jr.?-- where did that come from?) why are they sending faxes? Why aren't they sending e-mails? Hhhmmmm.....
Barack Obama is technically a "Junior." His father had the same name, and his birth certificate calls him "Barack Hussein Obama, II."
However, I think he never uses the "Jr." He doesn't sign his name that way, and as far as I know has never referred to himself in that style.
it takes so much energy to keep up with these morons...energy that could be focused on doing good...for so many more people... I suppose the 2016 campaign has started and we are going to hear more of this drivel for the next four years... exhausting...but I'm determined not to give up... if only to remind people that people like Rick Santorum are idiots.
If'n we can't throw granny under the bus and make poor kids clean toilets then by god we will take time to celebrate leaving blind people on their own as they try to cross the street!
It must be Christmas, the Scrooges are daring the ghost of things(elections) to come to try and make them change their self-centered egotistical greedy ways!
Santorum is a stupid ass, typical republican move, They love the power of the pen. this party is in deep trouble. Now they are realizing being in bed with the tea party didn't pay off . Obama won and the fat cat white guys lost good for the prodigious bastards.
someone tell me what was their articulated delusion for being against it?
As far as RWNJs are concerned, the United Nations is the harbinger of the New World Order ...
I wrote both my Senators in Texas voicing first a plea to vote yea for the UN Resolution and then one showing my disappointment for their nay vote. Kay Bailey wrote me back telling while she supports the ADA she didn't think we should be telling the world what to do! LOL this Senator who has voted to bomb people, starve people, and threaten people doesn't want to sign a resolution suggesting how to help people with disablities....outstanding thought process there Senator I mean disgusting.
Kay Bailey Hutchison is not overly endowed in the reasoning department.
She only looks smart standing next to people like John Cornyn and Ted Cruz.