If you don't have ten minutes, at least start watching at the 7:00 mark. I usually don't cover stuff already covered at Big Orange, but....
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) proposed an amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill that would withhold defense contracts from companies like KBR “if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.”
Of the 40 Republicans in the Senate, only 10 voted for the Franken amendment, including all four women in the Senate GOP. Of the six Republican males who voted for the amendment, all of them represented states outside the deep South -- Bennett (UT), Hatch (UT), Grassley (IA), LeMieux (FL), Lugar (IN), and Voinovich (OH). The other 30 men, including luminaries like David Vitter, John Ensign, and John McCain, didn't think the amendment warranted passage.
This is interesting. According to Republicans, a fake pimp and ho, reported to the police, was apparently so beyond the pale that they've worked to strip ACORN of all federal funding. But denying employees actual redress from gang rapes is no big deal?
PS. Vitter and Ensign? Should be in jail. Anyone who votes for them on the basis that "they're good Christian men" should rot in hell. The end.
This is what it means to be an elected official. The last Senator sworn in, but the first to grow a pair.
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love this man,bright and principled
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Franken is great - this is work he was meant to do.
ReplyDeleteWhat is happening here is beyond outrage - disgrace. That there should even be a question about any of it speaks to sexism, violence and most of all, IOKIYAR hypocrisy.
You know I don't really believe in hell, but sometimes, like today, I wish that I did.
I'd hate to debate Franken.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I see him, he's doing something interesting and not at all evil. Good on him.
HJ
The Repugnican party never ceases to floor me with their hatred of anyone who isn't straight, white, male, and rich.
ReplyDeleteYou may be a Republican ...
ReplyDeleteIf you think that cheering and celebrating America's defeat at getting the Olympics shows how patriotic you are
then you may be a Republican
If you think that a Democratic president having an affair is an impeachable offense but five Republican Senators having affairs is a "private matter"
then you may be a Republican
If you belong to a religious order that teaches that Hitler was a positive roll model
then you may be a Republican
If you openly pray for the American economy to "fail"
then you may be a Republican
If you think that torturing political prisoners is an American value
then you may be a Republican
If you think that the wrong side won the American Civil War
then you may be a Republican
If you think that the government should be able to decide which adults can get married and which cannot
then you may be a Republican
If you belong to a Whites only organization
then you might be a Republican
If you think that government involvement in healthcare is "doomed to failure" but Medicare is OK because "it works well"
then you may be a Republican
If you call yourself "pro-life" but are against healthcare, against head-start, against stem-cell research, against pollution controls, and are a global warming denier
then you may be a Republican
If you think that Brownie did "a heckofa job"
then you may be a Republican
If you think that prayer belongs in the classroom and not at home
then you may be a Republican
If you think that we should give the troops every cent that we can, but vote to cut veteran's benefits
then you may be a Republican
If you accepted a bribe from Jack Abramoff
then you may be a Republican
If this bumper sticker http://www.cafepress.com/Bush_Doggers.348376353?pid=2794571 is over-your-head
then you may be a Republican
If you think that it is a good idea to sabotage the war on terror by exposing covert intelligence officials just because they exposed that the White House was lying to American
citizens
then you may be a Republican
If you think that Obama is responsible for a recession that started a year before he became president
then you may be a Republican
If you count Enron executives among your close friends
then you may be a Republican
If you think that teachers are overpaid
then you may be a Republican
If you think that the Constitution is "just a damned piece of paper"
then you may be a Republican
If you think that soliciting homosexual sex from strangers in a public bathroom does not mean that you are a homosexual
then you may be a Republican
If you think that Sarah Palin is the best and brightest that the Republican party has to offer
then you just might be right
Franken rocks, and I hope he keeps going.
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ReplyDeleteLone voice in the wilderness, but at least there's one . . .
For the record:
ReplyDeleteI'm livid too.
Franken is doing something wonderful in this case, but I wish he wasn't so rabidly pro war.
ReplyDeleteJohn McCain didn't vote for it? There's a huge surprise. This is basiclaly legalized rape.
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