GOP Defends KBR’s Right to Rape Employees
A fake “pimp” and a fake “ho” try to start a fake “brothel,” and it’s a race to the Senate floor to see who can propose the first bill to strip ACORN of all federal funding.
But when a defense contractor’s employee is gang-raped by her co-workers and then told that she can never take her rapists to court, your Republican Party leaps to the defense of a corporation’s right to rape its employees:
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 [and] Congress plainly has the constitutional power to make that happen.
On the Senate floor, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) spoke against the amendment, calling it “a political attack directed at Halliburton.” Franken responded, “This amendment does not single out a single contractor. This amendment would defund any contractor that refuses to give a victim of rape their day in court.”
In the end, Franken won the debate. His amendment passed by a 68-30 vote, earning the support of 10 Republican senators including that of newly-minted Florida Sen. George LeMieux. “He did what a senator should do, which was he was working it,” LeMieux said in praise of Franken. “He was working for his amendment.”
All four female Republican Senators and every Democrat present supported the Franken amendment. The pro-corporate rape senators include Republican leaders like Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and John McCain (R-AZ) and such paragons of “family values” as David Vitter (R-LA) and John Ensign (R-NV).
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