30 Republican Senators Voted to Sanction Rape

By GottaLaff

Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash, via my pal Mark Karlin:

Last week, Senator Al Franken proposed an amendment that would prohibit the Pentagon from contracting with firms that force women employees to agree not to sue companies if they are raped as a result of their employment. [...]

So, as [Jon] Stewart caustically noted, 30 Republican Senators -- 30 -- voted in favor of denying recourse to rape victims in order to protect corporate America.

It, simply put, is beyond belief in a civilized society that 30 Senators -- all Republicans -- voted in favor of rape, gang rape, in the precipitating case that caused Franken to try and end governmental sanctioning of this outrage.

As Stewart, once again, did the work that corporate media should be doing, he showed the hypocrisy of the Republican Senators, many of them who just the week before went on a successful partisan rampage to revoke government funding of ACORN, an organization that had been entrapped by a right wing wannabe pimp, but did not have any employees raped on the job. [...]

That is unspeakably horrifying, and yet the mainstream media was more absorbed with right wing attacks on Obama [...]

That's 30 Republican Senators who voted for gang rape.

The Franken amendment passed because every Democrat voted for it and a few Republicans who haven't yet descended into Dante's Inferno. [...]

It's beyond disgraceful. It's 30 U.S. Senators who are accessories to a brutal crime.

More here, including the Daily Show video.

My previous posts on this subject here and here.