Though I'll try not to yell about it.

It's really not much of a trick to tap into conservative paranoia about the UN to round up votes for any anti-UN resolution. It really was just a knee-jerk vote; just a bunch of scorpions being true to their natures.

The mean-spirited vote against the treaty upgrading the rights of the disabled globally to US standards was motivated by exactly the same paranoia.

Republicans didn't make a conscious decision to be good guys on one vote and shits on the other; they were consistently being shits. Lucky for us that in one case it came up roses.

Although the flap about the upcoming Dubai meeting is exaggerated and overblown and paranoiac as usual, in principle there is always a danger that a nation like Russia might introduce some poisonous provision (which would be put to a vote of the entire ~170 member nations). So it's nice for the US to go on record that we would take a dim view of changing the Internet regulatory status quo. But it's really not something worth losing any sleep over, and it's only an accident that Republicans did the right thing.

I'm afraid I'm with ER: Republicans deserve little credit for yet another knee-jerk reaction.