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.”
Queen Nan, please STFU!!
Yes, Nan is a madam... she is the madam of a house of prostitution!!
Isn’t it time for a house to fall out of the sky and onto this woman?
I was rather hoping it would be a septic tank truck.
She’s probably heading back to the Big Island of Hawaii for her “festivus” break. I hope she receives a warm welcome...from an active volcano.
So many politicians (and “journalists”, and others) in fairly recent years have been “useful tools” in the relentless march to World Government - Strobe Talbott and his buddies, the ubiquitous Clintons, Susan Rice (feeding at the trough for a long time), Barack Hussein Obama, Walter Concrete, and many others. - They claim it’s for “the world” and intended to avert war; the very thing it will eventually facilitate. - The Constitution stands in their way and has, up to now, slowed them down; thank God. - Now I am at the point where I say, “Maranatha!” He’s the only one who is fit to govern mankind; but anyone paying attention dreads the Antichrist and his threatening mark which must come first. May the Lord deliver us!
No, Hart-Celler was by far the worst piece of legislation ever passed IMHO.
I have a disability (one arm)...talk for your self Nance you f..ing @##@!
“... GOP...if Nancy resigned tomorrow, would form a conga line to opine what a great person and representative of America she was.”
How true and how depressing.
Okay. Now I have to look up and see who the sick Republican scumbags were who voted FOR this atrocity.
I'll be back.
So, lets see if I understand this correctly.
There was a proposed treaty that would commit the US to doing ... exactly what it is already doing (under the ADA).
The difference being that the treaty would make the US subject to oversight and possibly intervention by international bodies, supplanting (or maybe the right word is superseding) the oversight already being done by the Judicial Branch of the US Government and various Executive Branch agencies and Congressional Committees.
Yup, that’s a sovereignty issue alright. No if-ands-buts about it. It’s a shame that Senator Dole came out in support of it. I know he was called “the tax collector for the welfare state”, but he did seem to usually take a pretty strong line against infringement of US sovereignty by the international community.
The usual scumbags, for the most part. I am not too familiar with Ayotte and Barasso... Are they always simpletons?
Nancy, please explain the Constitutional authority that empowers the Congress to even consider such legislation. Include footnotes and Supreme Court decisions as appropriate.
Or is this just more emotionally-based government expansion?
Pelosi, We'll throw a party when you leave, you old battle-axe.
It was voted down in a 61-38 vote
Seems to me that a few Democrats voted against it too...
LOL!
Umm.. No.
That's 61 "ayes" and 31 "nays". A treaty needs 66 "ayes". Every rat voted FOR it.
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