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45484. judithathome - 12/4/2012 8:25:28 PM Senate Rejects UN Treaty For Disabled Rights
A United Nations treaty to ban discrimination against people with disabilities went down to defeat in the Senate on Tuesday in a 61-38 vote.
The treaty backed by President Obama and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kansas) fell 5 votes short of the two-thirds needed for confirmation as dozens of Senate Republicans objected that it would create new abortion rights and impede the ability of people to home-school disabled children.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) argued the treaty would infringe on U.S. sovereignty, an argument echoed by other opponents.
“This unelected bureaucratic body would pass recommendations that would be forced upon the United States if we were a signatory,” he said.
45485. robertjayb - 12/5/2012 7:14:03 PM Remembering Jack Brooks, LBJ protege, Nixon executioner, fierce partisan, Texas patriot
Longish obit. My Texan soul weeps reading it and thinking of some of the pathetic creatures we send to Washington nowadays.
Blue Texas in 2020. Pass it on!
45486. robertjayb - 12/5/2012 7:31:10 PM Well, I botched the link. Will try again.
While puzzling over this I learned of the death of another admirable man. "Take Five" to remember Dave Brubeck. 45487. judithathome - 12/5/2012 7:48:28 PM I'm with you on the Blue Texas....we dreamers need to stick together! 45488. robertjayb - 12/5/2012 7:52:49 PM Jack Brooks
Maybe??? 45489. Wombat - 12/5/2012 9:38:09 PM I think I'll miss Dave Brubeck more, not being a Texas politics afficianado. 45490. Wombat - 12/5/2012 9:43:47 PM 49% of Republicans reportedly believe that Acorn helped steal THIS election. The Tea Party effect continues to lower the national IQ. 45491. judithathome - 12/5/2012 11:26:07 PM It's absolutely insane that they believe this...ACORN isn't even ACTIVE any longer! 45492. bhelpuri - 12/6/2012 1:23:45 PM Ah Dave Brubeck. Since this is the Politics thread, let's remember he was sent by the USIS on a global "win over the natives tour" when he visited Bombay, India (my very young parents were in attendance as a secret couple) and learned the very same riff that powers Take Five.
See: Battleground Bombay: Hot Jazz and the Cold War http://www.tajmahalfoxtrot.com/?p=961 45493. bhelpuri - 12/6/2012 1:25:30 PM Glad to see Brubeck remembered. I will be playing his music (but not Take Five) very loud this evening on the Mandovi riverfront. 45494. bhelpuri - 12/6/2012 1:26:54 PM Thinking about it a bit more, it seems that Brubeck did win over at least this native and his whole family! Viva CIA.
45495. bhelpuri - 12/6/2012 1:30:05 PM Strangely, the CIA does not seem quite as enthusiastic any more about projecting someone like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Iyer who would indeed make a huge difference. Oh for the good old Cold War days... 45496. robertjayb - 12/6/2012 6:10:21 PM Booman says DeMint out...
Well, this is just weird. Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina is resigning from the Senate in January to take the top spot at the Heritage Foundation. Governor Nikki Haley will select his replacement and there will be a special election in 2014 for the right to serve out the last two years of DeMint's term.
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In any case, I am glad to see DeMint leave the Senate. He's an irredeemable bastard. I just hope Haley doesn't make Joe "You Lie" Wilson his replacement.
(Booman Tribune) 45497. judithathome - 12/6/2012 7:00:19 PM Nikki Hayley is a bit of an ass, herself... 45498. Wombat - 12/6/2012 9:24:11 PM I wonder what undercurrents are roiling the Republican Party? Some bull goose loony--as opposed to run-of-the-mill loony--Republican congressment got kicked of committees. 45499. judithathome - 12/6/2012 9:30:23 PM I've been telling people to watch out for Iago Eric Cantor...he is after Boehner's job big time. 45500. robertjayb - 12/6/2012 10:22:54 PM Yes, Cantor is bad news.
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WRT DeMint, Juanita Jean posts that the head of the Heritage Foundation makes more than a million a year.
Could this be true? 45501. Wombat - 12/6/2012 10:40:39 PM I'm sure it is. Heritage Foundation is a wingnut welfare sinecure. 45502. concerned - 12/7/2012 1:38:08 AM Your hypocrisy is showing. You have no problems with Lefty heads of foundations making ten times as much. 45503. concerned - 12/7/2012 1:48:00 AM Gallup's unadjusted unemployment for November shows an uptick of nearly a full point, to 8.3%, over October's number.
The Gallup article, unsurprisingly, says that such a large increase is 'unexpected'. Actually, this increase is 'unexpected' only to those who are 0bama bootlickers. Wombat can tell you that 0bama's boots taste like his own ass.
Of course, 0bama will deny all responsibility. He'll point the finger of blame at the administration that has been in power for the last four years, where 0bama is president. That should make perfect sense to Lefty idiots.
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