OOOkay...I tend to post a lot about Jim Bunning here, and even the occasional rap on Mitch McConnell, and it usually has a humorous tone to it because, well, these guys are usually hilarious. They're a couple of good old boys from the GOP who Kentucky just can't seem to get rid of, and they're usually so hung up on calling each other names and double-dealing their inter-party smack talk that they typically miss any real opportunity to: A. get anything else accomplished, B. say anything nice (or rational) about anyone, C. make Kentucky look like anything other than a raving hillbilly hotbed, and D. seriously rankle my ire. Besides the acute embarrassment they cause for the state, they're just a couple of regular, harmless blow-hards.
But...
The recent amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill introduced by freshman senator from Minnesota, Al Franken, has given our boys a plum opportunity to stand united against something that, for once, we should all be able to agree on: the amendment proposes punishment for contractors who "restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court." This was prompted by the recent news that a 19 year old female KBR employee (KBR, by the way, is a subsidiary of Halliburton) was gang raped by her co-workers, then locked in a storage locker, threatened, and later told that she would not be able to take legal recourse because Halliburton thinks it is above the law (and, apparently, so do 30 senators--um, all republican--who voted against Franken's amendment). One could assume that Bunning and McConnell agree with Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) who said that the amendment was a "political attack directed at Halliburton." Wow. Yes, poor Halliburton. Way to tow the party line, there, fellas. Now that you've done your job on that, feel free to get back to railing against ACORN and working on your derisive belly laughs.
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