Morally disabled far-right-wing?

It's truly remarkable that thirty-seven Republican senators voted against ratification of the international disabilities treaty yesterday. Considering that the Americans With Disabilities Act was the basis for the treaty, and the fact that the Act was put forward by Republican George W. Bush and championed by many Republicans, the rebuff by the right wing of the Republican party is a stunning and appalling demonstration of just how powerful the paranoia of the right can be. Claiming that somehow this treaty, which has been ratified by many other nations, would "damage American sovereignty," the nay-saying senators dishonored all those who have fought for our country and lost the use of one or another limb or faculty, as well as all the many others who live with a disability. Their disregard for the suffering and difficulties of others is nothing less than inhumane. One can't help wonder what strange blindness prevents them from seeing the humanity in others and extending simple human compassion that they themselves would surely crave if they themselves were disabled.