Somebody call a Waahmbulance for the pro-rape Republicans

[ck4829]

In an unusual departure from Senate collegiality, four of Sen. Al Franken’s Republican colleagues vented their spleens Wednesday in a Politico.com story about his so-called rape amendment to a pending Pentagon spending bill.

“The Republicans are steamed at Franken because partisans on the left are using a measure he sponsored to paint them as rapist sympathizers – and because Franken isn’t doing much to stop them,” begins the article penned by Politico’s Manu Raju.

Perhaps the offended GOP senators were thinking of Jon Stewart’s devastating “Rape-Nuts” takedown Oct. 14 on The Daily Show on Comedy Central.

All the hurt feelings stem from a Franken amendment barring federal defense contracts to companies that require their employees to submit to mandatory arbitration rather than suing for workplace discrimination claims, including sexual assault.

The measure, which passed 68-30, was inspired by the story of former Halliburton/KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones, who alleges she was gang-raped by coworkers in Baghdad and later forced into arbitration.

http://www.startribune.com/blogs/78354472.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUgOy9cP3DieyckcUsI

"Come on, we were just playing around when we said that people who opposed the Iraq War were all traitors, or when we said that people who opposed Bush hated America or had "Bush derangement syndrome", or when we said that people who opposed our agenda wanted to embolden the terrorists, or when we said that people who wanted to know what our objectives in Iraq were hated the troops, or when we said that Obama voters want the government to take care of them, or when we said that Obama and Democrats want death panels and they want to kill your granny. Seriously, we were just joking! Why do you guys take everything too far? Waaah!"

[DrDan]

1. I thought there was 1 D in that group of cretins

is my mind failing me? The article claims all 30 were GOP.

[ck4829]

2. All Republican

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/07/meet-the-senators-who-vot_n_312976.html

[DrDan]

4. here it is - this is what I could not remember

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/frankens-anti-rape-amendm_n_329896.html

[SpiralHawk]

3. Let the piggy republicons make a big smelly whiney stink

and EXPOSE themselves...

[geckosfeet]

5. I appreciate the work Senator Franken is doing. His amendment is positive move.

[KharmaTrain]

6. Well Played Senator Franken...

Just proves what we've all known...the rushpublicans only care about death and profits and not the "sanctity" of life. Not only did this protect the mercenaries from being prosecuted in this case but also in a long list of others, including murder. The GOOP had to protect the Erik Princes than the Jamie Leigh Jones or anyone else who stands in the way of fleecing the treasury for their war for profit.

Of course the politico hack job didn't mention that this measure could have been passed out of the Senate and no one was the wiser months ago but it was the GOOP who put a hold on the vote...all but asking for the scrutiny they got. But the politico stenographer will get a prime interview now with cheney or an autographed copy (well as close to autographed one can be) of the Palin fishwrap.

[Ian David]

7. Republicans call rape "Enhanced Fornication." n/t