30 Senators think Gang Rape is A-OK

[Ian David]

MishaMisha1234 30 Senators think Gang Rape is A-OK http://ow.ly/tbeB http://bit.ly/4G9BxI http://twitter.com/Misha1234/status/4687603311

Markos Moulitsasmarkos RT @ArjunJaikumar: Only 10 Republicans voted for Franken amendment. Notably, all GOP Senate *women* voted for it. http://bit.ly/gp6Jc http://twitter.com/markos/status/4687599935

gopnews Franken tops Pawlenty in approval rating - MinnPost.com (blog) http://bit.ly/eJXcQ http://twitter.com/gopnews/statuses/4687643457


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[Ken Burch]

1. Holy Crap! MCCAIN's for gang rape?

n/t.

[sentelle]

7. McCain and Gang Rape

I suspect he wouldn't be in favor of gang rape, if he'd been gang raped.

by men, I mean.

[Ardent15]

14. McCain has been, figurativelly speaken, gang-raped by his Republican colleagues

[ck4829]

2. K&R

[derby378]

3. I still like the final vote tally - 68 Senators in favor!

DeMint, Inhofe, Chambliss (the guy who helped smear Max Cleland out of office, remember?), Vitter, and Ensign all voted against this. How the Republican Party has fallen...

[onehandle]

5. Chambliss probably thinks gang-rape is just another Saturday night.

He's a total ass.

[elehhhhna]

13. and lord knows what Vitter thinks it means.

[MidwestTransplant]

4. This is anti Capitalism. It doesn't allow companies that do business with the gov't do do

whatever they want to whomever they want. /Sarc.

If KBR doesn't like it they should just give up their gov't contracts.

[niyad]

6. for those of us who neither have, nor plan on getting, twitter accounts, could you give a clue?

[lpbk2713]

8. Gang rape is a frat prank according to Limbaugh.

That's no doubt where they got the idea from.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

9. How can Franken say it doesn't target them when it names them specifically?

[TorchTheWitch]

16. because the bill is for all gov contractors

The bill was only instigated by the actions of Halliburton in one particular case. This is really common... that a particular incident regarding a particular entity is the catalyst for a bill.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

17. Still it's a little disingenuous to say it doesn't target them when it names them specifically.

Why not just say of course it targets them, their despicable actions are what brought us here today.

[ddeclue]

10. Republicans have been raping us all for decades now..why are you surprised?

:shrug:

[TorchTheWitch]

11. Every single no vote was a Repuke

Spector - the newly minted DINO - didn't vote.

[orleans]

12. what the heck was this a vote for? n/t

[TorchTheWitch]

15. you have to follow the links

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/07/kbr-rape-franken-amendment/

In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, and “warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.” (Jones was not an isolated case.) Jones was prevented from bringing charges in court against KBR because her employment contract stipulated that sexual assault allegations would only be heard in private arbitration.

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.” Speaking on the Senate floor yesterday, Franken said:

The constitution gives everybody the right to due process of law … And today, defense contractors are using fine print in their contracts do deny women like Jamie Leigh Jones their day in court. … The victims of rape and discrimination deserve their day in court Congress plainly has the constitutional power to make that happen.

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It would be nice if when people start threads that they at least give some kind of indication as to what it's about. We shouldn't have to follow links just to figure out what the OP is talking about.

[orleans]

18. thanks for your help. n/t

[TorchTheWitch]

19. my pleasure

:hi: