Go Rick!
Sadly he is a statist and stupid.
Rick needs to get some of his guys together and start the process of dismantling this old, out of date cold war relic.
Oh, they don’t like their plots being defeated!
Funny though, how John Kerry thinks passing a treaty in the United States will bring the world up to the United States’ standard. Why would we need to pass the treaty if we already have the high standard.
Nice touch wheeling old Bob Dole in, but real conservatives aren’t fooled by such emotional nonsense, which is why they tried to pass this treaty while they still have dupes like Scott Brown, Olympia Snowe and Richard Lugar in the senate.
Dear Dear “Gail”,
If ANYONE has a “vested” interest in the “rights of the disabled” it is Rick Santorum.
I think he and Karen have earned the right to their opinion that it is a BAD precedent to potentially cede legal control of decision-making about their child’s best interests (and your child’s best interests) to people from China, North Korea, Congo, Iran, Syria, Burma, etc
Don’t you?
The ADA, which brought empty parking spots and ramps used twice a year to a store near you.
Seriously, whenever I see handicapped spaces full, which is rarely, usually a person gets out who then proceeds to walk, roll, or whatever, in a perfectly capable way. They get out of the car, then they go move around the mall like a regular person. Why did they need the spot? Was an extra 20 feet or whatever necessary to forestall a trip to the hospital?
Here are some links to related attacks by the New York Times on Santorum. This is an example of the sort of thing they contain: “The vote is expected to be close, because of an eruption from the right-wing fringe, led by people like Rick Santorum, the former senator, who says the treaty “crushes” American sovereignty and opens the door to bureaucrats taking disabled children from their parents’ arms. The Senate should ignore such nonsense. America is already ahead of the world on disability rights; it is time for the purveyors of paranoid politics to get out of the way, so it can continue to lead.”
That's from the official editorial. Here are blunter comments by columnists: “But these aren’t reasonable times. Some right-wingers are urging the Senate to reject the treaty, saying it’s a plot by one-world-government bureaucrats to undermine American independence. Rick Santorum, the former senator and Republican presidential candidate, called it a ‘Pandora’s box’ that could lead to the United Nations making medical decisions for disabled children like his daughter Bella, whom he brought into a Senate hearing room last week while he made his point.”
EDITORIAL: Treaty Rights for the Disabled
Published: December 3, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/opinion/treaty-rights-for-the-disabled.html
Rick Santorum Is Afraid, Very Afraid
By LAWRENCE DOWNES
December 3, 2012, 6:47 pm
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/rick-santorum-is-afraid-very-afraid/
From Republicans, a Parting Slap at Bob Dole and Disabled Americans
By LAWRENCE DOWNES
December 4, 2012, 7:58 pm
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/from-republicans-a-parting-slap-at-bob-dole-and-disabled-americans/
Other than the email I've been getting from Rick Santorum’s post-campaign operations, I do not consider myself an expert on this issue. I don't have strong views since I haven't studied this for myself. My views might change with more study. The Bible is supposed to control my political positions, not the opinions of a particular former presidential candidate.
What I do know is that biography counts in current political conditions. That's what leads to all sorts of non-experts becoming public spokesmen for or against political causes -— it works on the hearts even if it doesn't change heads. Because of his disabled daughter, Rick Santorum is in a very unusual position of being able to advocate on issues involving disabilities, a position on which few other nationally known conservatives can speak with comparable levels of authority.
What I also know is that when the New York Times is blaming a presidential candidate who failed to win his party's nomination but now has a significant victory for his position in the United States Senate, it shows they've decided to take the risk of giving him credibility by attacking him rather than burying him by ignoring him.
Apparently the New York Times thinks Rick Santorum and the Tea Party are both dangerous.
Here are come key comments from New York Times columnist Lawrence Downes, expressing his concern that moderate Republicans are being forced into opposition by Santorum out of fear that they’l face successful conservative opponents in their upcoming primaries:
“The vote was a triumph for Glenn Beck, Rick Santorum and others on the hard-right loon fringe, who have been feverishly denouncing the treaty as a United Nations world-government conspiracy to kill disabled children (you can look it up). Only eight Republicans voted yes: Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, John Barrasso of Wyoming, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Richard Lugar of Indiana, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and John McCain of Arizona. Several Republicans who might have made a difference but voted ‘no,’ as Roll Call pointed out, are up for re-election in 2014 and are facing possible primary challenges from the right: Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, and Thad Cochran of Mississippi, who changed his ‘yes’ to a ‘no’ after it was obvious the treaty would fail.”
Good for Rick. When the times attacks you, you know you are on the right side!
I’m sooooooooo sick of libs telling me that I have nothing to fear from lib policy. Abortion wasn’t going to lead to euthanasia; oh, no, never.
If anyone reads the article, make sure to put your hand over the left side of the screen so you don’t have to look at Gail Collins’ green teeth.
He was the best one running this year. Hope he sticks around.