Friday, December 4, 2009

GOP Senators Mad That They Voted For Rape

It seems that the GOP is going after Al Franken because he wrote a bill that would have stopped federal funds from going to companies that prevent employees from suing their employers for work related sexual crimes.

Backstory: "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.'"

A no brainer type of amendment. Well, not for the GOP. Several repubs voted against it. It spawned many stories and videos about how the GOP was for rape. The GOP senators then get angry at Al Franken for introducing such a "partisan" amendment.

At the end of the day, these morons voted for against a good bill. They deserve everything they get.