Speaking of "president-unelect Rick Santorum", Dana Milbank reports in today's Wash Post on Santorum's latest cause...
SANTORUM'S LATEST CAUSE: OPPOSING THE DISABLED
President-unelect Rick Santorum made his triumphant return to the Capital on Monday afternoon and took up a brave new cause: He is opposing disabled people.
Specifically, Santorum joined by Sen Mike Lee (R-Utah), declared his wish that the Senate reject the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - a human rights treaty negotiated during George W. Bush's administration and ratified by 126 nations, including China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, Syria and Saudi Arabia.
The former presidential candidate pronounced his "grave concern" about the treaty, which forbids discrimination against people with AIDS, who are blind, who use wheelchairs and the like. "This is a direct assault on us" he declared at a news conference.
Lee, a tea party favorite, said he, too, has "grave concerns" about the document's threat to American sovereignty. "I will do everything I can to block ratification and I have secured the signature of 36 Republican senators, all of whom have joined with me saying we will oppose any ratification of any treaty during this lame-duck session".
The treaty requires virtually nothing of the United States. It essentially directs other signatories to update their laws so that they may more closely match the American With Disabilities Act.
-Wash Post, 11/27/12
Is Ricky planning to run AGAIN for president?...would Ricky/the GOP be that generous to the Dems?
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