First, they learned their lesson of the last election, when women voters returned President Obama to the White House, by appointing white men to all of the 19 committee chairmanships of the House.
When there was a modest uproar, the House quickly added a white woman to chair the committee that keeps the House in order.
Senate Republicans felt overshadowed by their buddies in the lower chamber and so they voted against the disabled ensuring the bill's demise.
Of course, the bill they voted against was a ratification of a United Nations treaty on the rights of the disabled modeled after the American with Disabilities Act.
The treaty states that all nations should attempt to ensure that disabled people enjoy the same rights and fundamental freedoms as every citizen, but the 38 Republicans warned the treaty poses a threat to America's national sovereignty.
One of the tenets of Republican philosophy is paranoia.
And, the UN is as good as it gets these days in the paranoia department now that the Soviet Union no longer exists.
That onetime GOP "Big Tent" is getting smaller every day.
Add the disabled to the GOP's "Unwanted List," which includes women, African-Americans, gays, Hispanics, Asians and Muslims or just about anybody who isn't white, Christian and male.
Good luck with that.
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