Posted on 07/17/2002 9:12:05 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
In an almost unheard-of challenge to presidential prerogative, the Democratic Senate is preparing to consider ratification of an international treaty the White House has indicated it may not want approved.
Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) has scheduled a committee vote today on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, a 23-year-old United Nations document that was signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1980 and has languished ever since.
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This is what you get when a President 'installs a new mood in Washington". Subversives constantly challange him. I wish he would nail their a$$es to the door.
Apparently, Bush never read the story of the frog and the scorpion.
The Senate is being run by a cabal of radical leftists. The only way to defeat a bully (who will acquire power to himself as long as he is unopposed) is to OPPOSE him!!!!
Milk-toast Lott et al will NEVER get the job done. When will the Republicans (and the Bush administration) get spines and do what must be done!
The UN?!!!
They condemned the US for getting rid of the Tailban....and they think their hands are clean here?
Memo to UN---you are a joke..and, your US Taxpayer funded limo to Central Park is waiting.
I think it's just election year politics. Biden knows it won't ever get ratified. After all President Carter signed it in 1980. If the Senate wanted to ratify, it would have done so. Biden just wants to be able to use no votes on the treaty as sound bites in TV ads against Republican Senators up for re-election this year.
The fact that an old signed but unratified treaty can be dusted off at a moments notice demonstrates the need to have a constitutional ammendment placing time limits on treaty ratification. I wrote a rather lengthy post on that topic a couple of months ago, which I was able to find using Google.com.
We need a new Consitutional ammendment that would put a time limit for the ratification of any treaty signed by the President of the United states similar to the time limits placed on the ratification of Constitutional ammendments. Here is my proposed text.Above is the post I made on 5/23/2002. I would also add that it would also prevent mischief by Senators. There were several replies to my original post.
1. If a treaty that has been signed by the President of the United States has not been ratified by the United States Senate within a period of seven years from the date it was signed by the President, such signature shall be considered null and void. 2. All signatures on outstanding treaties not ratified at the time of adoption of this ammendment will be considered null and void if they have not been ratified by seven years after this ammendment is ratified.3. The article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
This ammendment would prevent a lot of mischief by future presidents. If it were adopted, President Bush would not even need to unsign this treaty. It would die from neglect.
signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1980 and has languished ever since.
Hmmmm....Camp David Accords comes to mind(verbal plurality in reference to any provisions in the accord actually agreed upon).
And, for more on Senator Biden's trip to Afghanistan with pics, mind you, visit http://biden.senate.gov/ and also a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. See http://judiciary.senate.gov/members.cfm
Those into sci-fi will also recognize him as the now aged protagonist in the movies Fortress and Fortress 2.
This is the treaty that would ban Mothers Day. Let's see, they want to get rid of the Pledge, the Boy Scouts, Mom, the Flag, prayer. Some good hard hitting in your face ads, run in every district and every state with any competetive races. Put them out big time a week before Halloween. Maybe throw in the Dems. want to ruin the economy so they have an election issue.
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