what kind of blithering idiot *is* this man?

. . . and what kind of monster?

"I do not support the cumbersome regulations and potentially overzealous international organizations with anti-American biases that infringe upon American society."

----Senator James Inhofe, explaining why he voted against US acceptance of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which would have made it illegal to discriminate against people on grounds of disability.

Yet again, Republican ignorance, stupidity, paranoia and just plain mean-spiritedness bring shame upon the US.