Dems jam GOP with Al Franken vote

[kpete]

Source: Politico

When Al Franken ran for the Senate last year, the former “Saturday Night Live” star had to reassure skeptics that the fierce partisan attacks he lobbed at Republicans as an author and radio host wouldn’t define his style as a legislator.

But because of one of his first pieces of legislation, Democrats now have their most brazen attack line of the emerging 2010 campaign season: that Republicans are insensitive to rape victims.

The charge stems from a Franken-sponsored amendment that would prohibit the Department of Defense from contracting with companies that require employees to resolve workplace complaints — including complaints of sexual assault — through private arbitration rather than the courts.

Thirty Senate Republicans voted against the amendment, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, liberal commentators and state Democratic Party chairs have been merciless.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29439.html

[joeybee12]

1. More garbage spin from Politico...

...I've given up on them.

[TheWraith]

6. Yep. Slightly more subtle, but still a RW propaganda clearinghouse.

I'm so sick of their shit.

[aquart]

2. Mercy for rape enablers? I think not.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. The repukes should be shown as much mercy as they show to rape victims..

[Hello_Kitty]

4. Too bad the Dems in a lot of states will be too spineless to use it.

Both my senators, Kyl and McCain, voted against it. If I were running against either of them, I'd hit them with that vote 24/7. By the time I was done when you thought McCain or Kyl, you thought "pro rape".

[Odin2005]

5. The rape-enablers deserve no mercy.

[patrice]

7. Perfect. John and Janey Average-American will not like special treatment for Aristocracy.

[happygoluckytoyou]

8. SINCE WHEN HAS RAPE BEEN A CRIMINAL ACT... just take that thang down to HR and chat it out....

[pundaint]

10. What good's a mercenary anyway if you wont let him rape and murder?

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. 'Privately, GOPers agree they didn't anticipate the political consequences of a "no" vote"'

That makes it sound as if they think their vote was 'morally' right, just not good 'tactically'. In that case, they deserve to have it thrown back in their faces, mercilessly. Franken's amendment seemed like another 'bipartisan' one to me - one to which anyone would say "oh yeah, this is a problem, we need to fix this". Voting against it was an indicator of personal ethical deficiencies.