I said it before, and I’ll say it again: It’s time for the GOP to change its emblem from the noble elephant to a scarab — specifically the scarabeous sacer, or dung beetle. Because these guys are dedicated to seeking out, storing up, prospering off dung. Via commentor Punchy, here’s Charles Johnson at LGF on …
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“I do not support the cumbersome regulations and potentially overzealous international organizations with anti-American biases that infringe upon American society,” said Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla.…
Johnson also linked to a useful Right Wing Watch article on the paranoid phantasies behind the GOP rejection:
…. Along with the false charges about abortion, opponents of the treaty claimed it will undermine U.S. sovereignty and harm children. Critics like Rick Santorum warned that the treaty may kill his disabled daughter; Glenn Beck said it could create a “fascistic” government and Sen. Jim Inhofe alleged the treaty would help groups with “anti-American biases.”
One of the lesser-known but extremely active opponents of the bill was homeschooling activist Michael Farris.
During an interview with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, he claimed that the treaty will prompt the United Nations to ‘get control’ of children with glasses or ADHD and remove them from their families…
It’s always about control with this particular brand of flag-wrapped bible-thumper. They love ‘pre-born babies’ and ‘pillow angels’ like Bella Santorum, because fetuses and disabled toddlers are great political props. They love home-schooling, because if their kids never leave the rightwing bubble, they’ll never have the chance to commit the original sin of disobedience. But other peoples’ kids, disabled adults, even their own ‘corrupted’ teenagers? Well, Santorum has announced that his god is a “warrior god”, not the sort of namby-pamby do-gooder that talks about ‘doing unto others’ and ‘even the least of these… ‘
And why, may you ask, is Rick Santorum, failed presidential-primary candidate and official congressional representative of exactly nobody, so publicly in change of this shit-shifting parade? Because Mitt Romney may have captured the 2012 GOP nomination, but Santorum captured the GOP primary voters. He is Head Savonarola for their Talibangical wing, and by tradition in 2016 it will be “his turn” to stand at the RNC podium. Look forward to four more years of stomach-turning rhetoric like this, dedicated to the proposition that White Male Americans have the god-given right to make all the decisions for the rest of us, and the world.