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A great political party has been hijacked by a cabal of lunatics.<\/p>\n

The latest example occurred the other day on the floor of the U.S. Senate, the place once known as the \u201cWorld\u2019s Greatest Deliberative Body.\u201d It now should be called as the \u201cWorld\u2019s Greatest Loony Bin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senate Republicans blocked enactment of a United Nations treaty designed to guarantee human rights for people with disabilities. Thirty-eight GOP senators voted \u201cno\u201d on the treaty, apparently believing that the U.N. was seeking to usurp American sovereignty. This is all part of the tea party wing of the GOP\u2019s pitch to those with an irrational fear of the United Nations.<\/p>\n

The convention wouldn\u2019t require a change in U.S. law. It merely allows the United States to say that it thinks the U.N. convention is a good idea. <\/p>\n

The Senate vote featured a rare appearance by a true American hero, Bob Dole, the former Republican senator from Kansas, who sat in a wheelchair on the Senate floor to make the case in favor of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities. Dole was injured grievously during World War II, recovered and went on to serve with great honor and distinction in the Senate. He was the GOP\u2019s presidential nominee in 1996. He, along with Sens. John McCain and Dick Lugar support the convention, as well as Senate Democrats and eight \u201crenegade\u201d Republicans who joined in voting in favor of the convention.<\/p>\n

But 38 hard-core fear-mongers \u2013 all Republicans \u2013 held firm and denied the convention the two-thirds supermajority it needed to pass. <\/p>\n

And for the record, Texas\u2019 two GOP senators, John Cornyn and lame-duck Kay Bailey Hutchison, voted \u201cnay\u201d on the measure. Shame on both of them.<\/p>\n\n

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