Posted on 12/06/2012 10:45:39 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Pelosi: DeMint won’t be missed By Mike Lillis - 12/06/12 01:03 PM ET
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday linked outgoing Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) to one of the “saddest” Senate votes in years and suggested DeMint’s values won't be missed on Capitol Hill.
Pelosi criticized the resigning South Carolina lawmaker and other GOP senators for voting Tuesday against Senate ratification of a United Nations treaty on rights for the disabled.
“For them [DeMint and other treaty opponents] to slap the face of our veterans, of people with disabilities, of families with children with disabilities, that was one of the saddest days,” Pelosi said in the Capitol, taking care to avoid DeMint's name. “So anyone who was a party to that, well, I wish them well wherever they are going, and hope that we can have more of our values represented [by his replacement].”
Just hours before, DeMint shocked Capitol Hill by announcing that he's leaving the Senate to take over the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that had lobbied hard against the U.N. treaty on the disabled.
The treaty would have extended the rights granted under the Americans with Disabilities Act to all nations. It was voted down in a 61-38 vote.
The measure was backed most prominently by former-Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kansas), 89, a World War II veteran who came to the Senate chamber in a wheelchair Tuesday night to drum up support from his fellow Republicans.
He fell short.
Senate Republicans shot down the treaty, saying it was a threat to U.S. sovereignty. The final tally was 61-38, five votes shy of the two-thirds majority needed to pass the measure.
The Heritage Foundation's lobbying arm urged senators to vote against the measure, arguing that it would grant “undue authority ... to an unaccountable committee of academics and 'disability experts' based in Geneva, Switzerland.”
“The committee’s authority would be a direct violation of the principles of U.S. sovereignty and federalism,” Heritage warned.
Pelosi on Thursday choked up while condemning the GOP opponents, including DeMint.
“For Sen. Dole to come, as the former leader of the Republicans in the Congress, to personally come to the Senate floor to lobby, to advocate, for that legislation — it just needed five more votes — and to see the Republicans in the Senate reject that out of hand for reasons that go beyond reason ... it was stunning,” Pelosi said.
“There's a competition for the worst, most shameful, all the rest of that,” she said, “but [that was] the saddest of all occasions.”
Classless hag.
F the UN.
she is what she is.. an old bitter politician , poisoned by the environment she fermented in her own vineyard..
FUNP.
Multiple times.
Witch.Harridan. Dogface putz.
That piece of Botox-packed sh*t will only leave that building horizontally.
Obviously not enough.
What a worthless hag! I bet Boehner is too busy crying to respond.
Gosh, I wish Pelosi would give me a chance not to miss her. The old, scary, communist witch most likely will out live me. Drats.
Why does a House member have to comment on the resignation of a member of the Senate? She would never have worked closely with him, but has to opine on everything?
Democrats on the other hand=NO class.
“Stay classy, Nancy.”
FUNP
The Republicans were right. Anything coming from the UN in the form of a treaty should be turned down.
The ADA is the worst piece of legislation ever passed only surpassed by the Obamacare act.
It has cost us billions and kept lawyers in business for years with pathetic suits.
I agree with you on that, but I only wish John Boehner had helf of her balls.
I agree. All the more reason not to elect idiots like George Bush that propose or sign such odious laws.
Simple. You have to hand it to the Dems, they never ever give up. They take every opportunity to bash Republicans. Unlike the GOP who, if Nancy resigned tomorrow, would form a conga line to opine what a great person and representative of America she was.
Nancy is a floating turd.
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