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Author: Raine
Date: 12/03/2009 13:26:15
There has been much buzz about Senator Al Franken's ammendment to a Pentagon spending bill that would ban federal contracts to defense contractors and subcontractors who force employees go through a company’s arbitration process for workplace discrimination claims — including rape and other sexual assaults. That ammenedment passed 68-30. 10 Republicans voted yes -- 30 voted no.
Those 30 have since become known as the 'pro-rape' senators. Understandably, they are displeased. No one likes to be called 'pro-rape', but that is not why they are displeased: They are more concerned with whether The Senator can work across the aisle with them than the actual issue they voted on. Instead of facing the real issue -- that they are indeed protecting corporate rape, they choose to blame someone else for making them look bad. And that seems to be typical GOP group think these past few years. They do it, don't see what they have done, get blow back and just blame someone else. Classic projection. It is the party of No and the party of blame. They will do anything they can to disrupt the process. Even using rape victims as a political pawn.
If you don't believe it, check this out: At least it is confirmed that the GOP is not really interested in working across the aisle as Senators Corker & Alexander complained about in their Op-Ed. It is amusing that they are concerned about Al Franken being able to work with THEM, when the reality is that they have no desire to work with the majority party. Instead Death and Rape are a political ploy for them.
But Hey, I could be missing a point-- just because they are rapist sympathizers doesn't mean they should be PERCEIVED as rapist sympathizers, right? That might make them the real victims, here. The GOP is right about one thing, being a senator is about relationship building-- they should really try harder to work with the poeple on the side of the aisle who acutally HAVE the majority -- and it isn't them.
and 
Raine
Those 30 have since become known as the 'pro-rape' senators. Understandably, they are displeased. No one likes to be called 'pro-rape', but that is not why they are displeased:
In a chamber where relationship-building is seen as critical, some GOP senators question whether Franken’s handling of the amendment could damage his ability to work across the aisle. Soon after Tennessee GOP Sens. Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander co-wrote an op-ed in a local newspaper defending their votes against the Franken measure, the Minnesota Democrat confronted each senator separately to dispute their column — and grew particularly angry in a tense exchange with Corker.
If you don't believe it, check this out:
New Hampshire Republican Senator Judd Gregg has circulated a letter to his Senate colleagues, instructing them on how to use the rules of Senate debate to delay and perhaps even defeat the health care bill being debated in the upper chamber.
The letter, obtained by The Hill (PDF), TalkingPointsMemo and Politico (PDF), among others, runs through numerous procedural rules that would allow the Republican minority to hold up progress on the health bill.
It will likely add fuel to arguments by supporters of health care reform that the GOP's goal in the debate is to block Democrats from making progress on the issue.
But Hey, I could be missing a point-- just because they are rapist sympathizers doesn't mean they should be PERCEIVED as rapist sympathizers, right? That might make them the real victims, here. The GOP is right about one thing, being a senator is about relationship building-- they should really try harder to work with the poeple on the side of the aisle who acutally HAVE the majority -- and it isn't them.
and Raine
