Rape Nuts

I wonder if she'd vote for Vitter

The Republicans in the Senate obstructionist caucus are so eager to vote against everything that they even took the bizarre step of following the lead of Alabama KKK leader Jeff Sessions into a vote against protecting American women from corporate rape enablers. And I'm just talking about the extreme fringe of their caucus like Inhofe (OK), Vitter (LA), Cornyn (TX), DeMint (SC), Burr (NC) and Coburn (OK again). although all the Republican women abandoned the GOP leadership and crossed the aisle to vote with the Democrats against rape, some Republicans who try passing themselves off as moderates-- like Lamar Alexander (TN), John McCain (AZ), Lindsey Graham (SC), and Bob Corker (TN)-- showed their true colors and allowed themselves to be counted among the 30 sociopaths condoning rape. OK, what am I going on about? You haven't heard about this in the mainstream media right? Let me explain.

On Tuesday, October 6, the Senate voted on what looked like an obscure amendment to a Defense Appropriations bill. I was watching closely because I'm waiting for the Obama Administration to sneak some amendment into such a bill that allows it unfettered ability to fund the occupation of Afghanistan without going through the legal requirements Obama swore during the campaign he would follow. So I watch these bills really, really carefully. This one, introduced by Al Franken-- his first-- was nothing like that. But what was it? It wasn't clear. The language of S. Amend. 2588 doesn't mention "rape," let alone "gang rape." Here's the official purpose Franken submitted:

To prohibit the use of funds for any Federal contract with Halliburton Company, KBR, Inc., any of their subsidiaries or affiliates, or any other contracting party if such contractor or a subcontractor at any tier under such contract requires that employees or independent contractors sign mandatory arbitration clauses regarding certain claims.

"Certain claims?" So I snooped around a little, called some friends on Capitol Hill and realized it was a powerful story. I had it up at DWT by 6pm, about 90 minutes after the Senate passed it 68-30 and a couple hours later I put it up at Huffington Post. I mentioned to a couple of friends that I found a scoop but then the story just seemed to disappear. Unless Fox starts something, or unless the story is about baking sugar cookies, fake terrorists in boats, balloon hoaxes, or a kitty-cat stuck in a tree, CNN doesn't touch it. The NY Times and Washington Post are so obsessed with the ginned up ACORN story the GOP is pushing that all their "news" resources are pursuing that earth-shattering nothingness. So the 30 Republicans who voted against an amendment to prevent corporations from enabling rape... not a mention; not a peep. The women voters-- and the men who like women-- in Georgia don't know that Johnny Isakson, who's up for re-election in 2010 is a rape condoner. Sam Brownback is running for governor of Kansas next year; he's a rape condoner. John Thune is up for re-election and his image in South Dakota is very different from a guy who would vote to condone rape. I guess people foolish enough to vote for extremists like Dick Burr (NC), Tom Coburn (OK) and Jim DeMint (SC) don't care that they're part of the rape-is-ok coalition. But voters in Louisiana are trying to figure out what to make of serial whore-monger David Diapers Vitter before they have to go to the polls next year. Vitter has spent his entire political career pursuing prostitutes and, after he was caught-- being spanked by one of them and wearing a diaper-- he claimed to be chastened. I'm betting the women voters in Louisiana might be a little bit interested in knowing that David Vitter voted no on Franken's amendment, voted against disciplining corporations that force women to agree, as a condition of employment, that they can't sue if they get gang raped and locked up in a crate. It's the kind of thing women voters might care about.

Oh-- and Comedy Central noticed. Yep... CNN, the NY Times, AP may have all missed the story but Jon Stewart didn't. And if you watch the video closely, you'll see that he got his information straight from the source-- the Huffington Post story we posted about 3 hours after the Senate voted.

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