Posted on 07/22/2014 5:13:35 AM PDT by cotton1706
It’s Bob Dole vs. the home-school lobby, round two.
This marks the second time the former senator will square off against Mike Farris, president of the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, on the same issue: an international treaty on rights for people with disabilities.
Farris mounted a public campaign against the treaty when the Senate took it up in 2012, fanning concerns among prominent conservatives like Rick Santorum and the Heritage Foundation that it could infringe on the rights of parents whose children have disabilities, threaten states’ rights and become a legal tool for pro-choice advocates pushing against restrictive abortion laws.
Proponents maintained that the treaty would have no effect on American law, but the detractors proved stronger: The treaty fell short of being ratified by five votes.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is expected to approve the treaty Tuesday morning, but it’s not clear if it has enough votes to pass the full Senate.
Dole, who was injured while fighting in World War II and had been struggling with his health at the time of the vote, was on the Senate floor in a wheelchair when it failed.
“He’s quite a machine,” Dole said of Farris.
The treaty, the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, was adopted in 2006 and signed by President Barack Obama in 2009. It’s modeled after the Americans with Disabilities Act: The goal is to help guarantee that people with disabilities can access education, jobs, health care and other opportunities afforded to countries’ mainstream populations.
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Bingo! Assume the treaties are evil and they must prove their innocence. Why is this an UN treaty at all? And why would Bob Dole care, is he doing a lot of international travel? Is he a paid lobbyist? Does he tryly think a treaty is going to improve the situation for the disable. Most the Disabilities Act in this country has been a boondoggle for trial lawyers.
If it’s an international treaty, it’s one that lessens the rights of Americans.
Screw international law and anyone who places it above our Constitution.
Mike Farris is right on this one. Dole is campaigning on emotion rather than the Constitution.
I don’t have a problem with treaties, per se, but ones that seek to control domestic affairs, I do find disturbing.
Treaties should be between nations, not these multinational treaties that are cobbled together at the UN that hamstring us and nobody else.
+10,000%.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
He should stick to Viagra commercials.
Hmmm. Although this immediately smells bad because of the words “Bob Dole” and “Treaty,” I don’t understand how this affects home schooling. What’s going on?
Eisenhower-Goldwater-Nixon-Ford-REAGAN-Bush 41-Dole-Bush 43-McCain-Romney
62 years of GOP candidates for POTUS, and only one successful conservative in the bunch. Can you find him? RINO is the norm for the Rovian wing of the Lifetime Career Appropriators Party.
“these people never go away” I HOPE NOT
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