{"id":31701,"date":"2012-12-10T23:10:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T06:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/the-gop-the-disabled-and-the-menace-of-the-phantom-black-helicopters.html"},"modified":"2012-12-10T23:10:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T06:10:18","slug":"the-gop-the-disabled-and-the-menace-of-the-phantom-black-helicopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/the-gop-the-disabled-and-the-menace-of-the-phantom-black-helicopters.html","title":{"rendered":"The GOP, the Disabled, and the Menace of the Phantom Black\u00a0Helicopters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, it was a week ago, but it&#39;s still so irksome on both a compassionate and rational level that it bears dredging back up.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/senate-republicans-un-disability-treaty-120412'>They Will Not Change<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe GOP is a party so completely unhinged that it thinks that a treaty on the rights of disabled people is some sort of one-world plot. This is conspiracy-theory brought to government. This is what&#8217;s &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/GwXFEdXdojV' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, it was a week ago, but it&#39;s still so irksome on both a compassionate and rational level that it bears dredging back up. Embedded Link They Will Not Change The GOP is a party so completely unhinged that it thinks that a treaty on the rights of disabled people is some sort of one-world &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/the-gop-the-disabled-and-the-menace-of-the-phantom-black-helicopters.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The GOP, the Disabled, and the Menace of the Phantom Black\u00a0Helicopters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31619,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/04\/bob-dole-is-an-evil-anti-american-baby-hating-one-worlder-marxist-radical.html","url_meta":{"origin":31701,"position":0},"title":"Bob Dole is an evil anti-American baby-hating One-Worlder Marxist radical","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Dec-12 5:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Bob Dole is an evil anti-American baby-hating One-Worlder Marxist radicalThat's all I can think was going through a sufficient number of GOP Senators to get the slightly more than 33% necessary to kill US ratification of the UN convention on the rights of the disabled. \u00a0Because, of course, a treaty\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":134793,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/20\/gop-leadership-plays-chicken-peoples-lives.html","url_meta":{"origin":31701,"position":1},"title":"GOP Leadership plays chicken with people&#8217;s lives","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 20-Sep-17 3:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"That's really what it boils down to. 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