Republicans For Rape…

I can see politicians disagreeing on issues and sparring over the wording, but who in their right mind would vote against an amendment that would bring rapists to court to answer for their crimes? I’ll give you one guess… they’re the party that is mostly make up of white, old men. That’s right, the Republican Party!

Apparently Sen. Al Franken (I still love saying that) purposed an ammendment that would deny defense contracts to companies that ask employees to sign away the right to sue. This was made to prevent companies and from avoiding criminal and civil charges against other employees that say… gang rape you and then lock you in a storage container to prevent you from reporting the incident. And yet despite the logic to this, the vote was not the slam dunk that everyone thought it was going to be. It was passed by the Senate with a 68 – 30 vote, but the idea that 30 people would vote against an ammendment that would protect people from being gang raped is surprising, but then not surprising when you find out who voted against it… Republicans.

Once again the Repubs prove beyond a resonable doubt why they are a relic of the previous century. I realize the elephant boys are against restricting anything against a corporation, but voting against the right for a woman to seek justice for gang rape? That’s a new low for them. Just further evidence how out of touch with reality this party really is and why they’ll likely never win another election again… not when they show this disregard for significant voting blocks.

Here is more information on the story, read and be repulsed by the so called ‘family values’ party, which apparently doesn’t support someone’s right to sue or press charges against their rapists. How have people responded to this? Let me point out that there’s now a webiste titled Republicans For Rape that points out every Repub that voted against the amendment that is meant to protect women from harrassment and rape.

As a fav of mine would state to end a rant… Nuff said.

Peter

Meet The Senators Who Voted Against The Franken Amendment

Written by Jason Linkins

I think that all homo sapiens can understand how the mere thought of an organization that receives government money through contract mechanisms being tangentially involved in setting up a fake tax shelter for a fake pimp and his fake prostitution ring of fake prostitutes can justifiably lead to lawmakers going absolutely cross-eyed with white-hot, impotent rage. But what happens when a similarly taxpayer-endowed contractor attempts to cover up employee-on-employee gang rape by locking up the victim in a shipping container without food and water and threatening her with reprisals if she report the incident? Somehow, it doesn’t engender the same level of anger!

Credit new Senator Al Franken however, for introducing an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill that would punish contractors if they “restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.” You’d think that this would be a no-brainer, actually, but that didn’t stop Jeff Sessions from labeling Franken’s effort a “political attack directed at Halliburton.” Franken, of course, pointed out that his amendment would apply broadly, to all contractors, because otherwise, ‘twould be a bill of attainder, right? Right?

Franken’s amendment ended up passing, 68-30. Here’s a list of the Senators who showed broad support for Roman Polanski by voting against it:

Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

ADDENDUM: It’s been pointed out to me that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbied against the Franken amendment as well:

Republicans point out that the amendment was opposed by a host of business interests, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and applies to a wide range of companies, including IBM and Boeing.

I guess we must cover up crimes like rape in order to save capitalism.

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