GOP shoots down Bob Dole

The Senate was asked to ratify a resolution that would have no effect on US law, but would have lent support to a UN treaty that sought to promote rights to people with disabilities.  The treaty merely seeks to require countries to recognize the rights of the disabled, as the United States already does. It wouldn't change U.S. law. It would, as Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry explained, encourage other nations to develop laws like the Americans With Disabilities Act, which passed 22 years ago, in large part thanks to Mr. Dole's efforts.

The ultra conservative paranoids in the GOP led by Rick Santorum led an incoherent opposition, based mostly on their own paranoid dogma that supposes the UN is on a mission to invade the US, and Obama is nursing the effort along.  Never mind that Bob Dole, the most patriotic of GOP icons argued for passage from his wheel chair, the defenders of nutso politics weren't having it.  See the news story here.