To the best of my memory I hadn't even heard of the damn thing until ER's spew.

But out of curiosity, I spent some time looking into it after that. I read ER's article (he linked it twice), then looked up some more articles. I found the text of the treaty. I looked up old stories on it from 2009 and later. I read some things by people who opposed it, and some things by people who supported it.

It's been hanging fire in Washington since Obama signed it in July of 2009. It languished during the next year or so of overwhelming Democratic control, then finally showed up in the Senate almost three years later (May, 2012). It's interesting, and a bit suspicious, that this treaty vote only came up just now during an all-out political war against the Republicans.

And yes, there are reasoned objections to this, and no, they aren't about children being stolen in the night. They are about legal precedents, definitions, the past performance of other "committees" similar to the one in this treaty, and other things that need to be resolved.