Meanwhile the Senate Tea Party once again succeeds in frustrating President Obama and humiliating the US Senate by preventing US ratification of the UN disabilities treaty, modeled on US law, and copied by nations all over the world, in spite of the support of Sen John McCain and rare visit by wheel-chair bound Bob Dole.

Thirty-eight Republicans appear to have agreed and voted Tuesday to reject the treaty. And while 61 senators supported it — including eight Republicans and two independents — the tally fell five votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to pass. No Democrat voted against it. Sen. Mark Kirk, Illinois Republican, was absent and did not vote.

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Mr. [John] Kerry called Tuesday was “one of the saddest days I’ve seen in almost 28 years in the Senate.”

Former GOP Sen. Bob Dole, a wounded World War II veteran and prime sponsor of the original ADA law who supports the treaty, made a rare visit to the Senate floor to watch the debate and vote.

Who are these people? What is the matter with them? Is there no limit to their hate and their fear?

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