Make sure to read the excellent article in the Boston Globe by Michael Kranish on the failure of the Senate to ratify The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on December 4th, 2012. John McCain says it was the worst day of his entire career. Bob Dole is devastated and thinks the whole Republican Party needs to be closed for repairs. I don’t want to spoil the article for you, but it turns out that the fevered imaginations of paranoid home-schoolers is what sunk the treaty. But no one saw it coming until it was too late.
You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of this.
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, I don’t think I do, sir, no.
General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
It wasn’t entirely farce back then, unfortunately. I am afraid it is true today. We are dealing with maniacs.
