The stupidest and most contemptible Politico story ever -- which is going some!
Republican senators feel burned by Al Franken — and not by his old jokes.
The Republicans are steamed at Franken because partisans on the left are using a measure he sponsored to paint them as rapist sympathizers — and because Franken isn’t doing much to stop them.
“Trying to tap into the natural sympathy that we have for this victim of this rape —and use that as a justification to frankly misrepresent and embarrass his colleagues, I don’t think it’s a very constructive thing,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said in an interview.
“I think it’s going to make a lot of senators leery and start looking at things he’s doing earlier on, because I don’t think it got appropriate attention ahead of time.”
Let's recall the context. This is the context.
A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.
Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job.
Sensible people would say that all the perpetrators of this outrage should be in jail for, oh, let's say, forever, and the company involved should be out of business, and the victim of forcible rape and imprisonment should own all that company's assets in perpetuity.
This is the Senate, though, and hence we have preposterous shit like Cornyn's pottybrained mewling that it's unfair and in bad taste to assert that only sexist assholes want rape victims to face artificial barriers to legal redress for their victimization.
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.
Oh who fucking cares. Piss across the aisle on the rape apologists.
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.
People familiar with the Corker exchange say it was heated and ended abruptly — a sharp departure from the norm on the usually clubby Senate floor.
Too fucking right. The "clubby" Senate is a fucking menace. Check this:
“I don’t know what his motivation was for taking us on, but I would hope that we won’t see a lot of Daily Kos-inspired amendments in the future coming from him,” said South Dakota Sen. John Thune, No. 4 in the Senate Republican leadership. “I think hopefully he’ll settle down and do kind of the serious work of legislating that’s important to Minnesota.”
Because only wacky bloggers think rape victims deserve legal redress. And only sewer drains like the Politico think the only issue to report here is just who exactly is being properly bipartisany. Is this the time to debate 'oo raped 'oo, I ax ya!