Senate rejects UN treaty for disabled rights in 61-38 vote

[John2]

73. This was

in my local news paper in North Carolina: N.C. House Leader calls for special session.
North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis asked (Democratic) Gov. Beverly Perdue on Friday to call a special legislative session before the end of the year to fix a budget gap that could cause about 1,400 people with mental illnesses to lose their homes.

The crisis was triggered in July when the Republican-controlled Legislature approved a one-word tweak to the state budget that excluded group homes from nearly $40 million fund intended to cushion the effects if medicaid eligibility changes for programs for the disabled.

Advocates for people with mental illness worry that scores of group-home residents will be dumped in homeless shelters or on streets in the middle of winter. GOP leaders and the Democratic governor had disagreed about how to solve the problem before a Jan. 1 deadline.

Republican Tillis made the move to call a Special Session, five days after an A.P. report on a series of emails showing a top Republican budget writer and his staff had been informed about the potential problem in June, days before their approval of the bill that created the funding gap. In recent months, Republicans including Gov-elect Pat McCrory has sought to pin the blame on the Perdue administration.

What does this have to do with the Topic? This is how the Right wing Republican Party operates. They are our Taliban and they are dangerous to this country. That is the way I see it. These people shouldn't be elected to Congress. It wasn't just Allen West or Todd Akins. These people have no definition of the word compromise.

If somebody like Rachel or ED on MS NBC got hold of a story like this on the current Fiscal talks, the right wing Republican Party will be exposed even more. Medicare and Medicaid are not wasteful spending. They have a useful purpose.