As usual it seems Thune is getting a pass from the SD media. Even going so far as to delete a blogger’s post about it on their site. What we don’t know can’t hurt us.
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As South DaCola reported last week (yet the SD MSM did not say a peep about it) Thune voted against rape protections for federally funded private contractors. But it gets better, a blogger from http://www.thecrookeddope.com/ tracked his ass down and asked him why he voted against the amendment, his response;
Thune said that he might have supported the amendment if it had been narrowed to cover rape (only) rather then extended to cover other sexual-related abuses.
WTF!? So in your book John, rape is bad but not other sex crimes? Not only are you a jackass, but that is one of the biggest bullshit excuses I have heard from you in a long, long time. You truly embarrass our state.
Read more of the excuses here.
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(H/T- Helga)
This is all pretty sick and wrong, what kind of person, let alone a senator, votes to protect corporations from rape convictions and lawsuits? Oh, that’s right, Republicans. I wonder what Ironic Johnny’s wife and daughters think of his vote?
Watch Jon Stewart’s video first.
In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her Halliburton/KBR co-workers while working in Iraq and locked in a shipping container for over a day to prevent her from reporting her attack. The rape occurred outside of U.S. criminal jurisdiction, but to add serious insult to serious injury she was not allowed to sue KBR because her employment contract said that sexual assault allegations would only be heard in private arbitration–a process that overwhelmingly favors corporations.
This year, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) proposed an amendment that would deny defense contracts to companies that ask employees to sign away the right to sue. It passed, but it wasn’t the slam dunk Jon Stewart expected. Instead the amendment received 30 nay votes all from Republicans. “I understand we’re a divided country, some disagreements on health care. How is ANYONE against this?” He asked.
He went on to show video of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) arguing that it’s not the government’s place to decide who the government does business with and juxtaposed that with Republican sentiment on how the government should deal with ACORN. “I guess it’s an efficiency thing. You don’t want to waste tax-payer money giving it to someone who advises fake prostitutes how to commit imaginary crimes, you want to give it to Halliburton because they’re committing real gang rape.”
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