Are you for gang rape?

Well I am back from vacation and thought it was about time to start blogging again. With the usual health care debate getting old I came across a story about an amendment, Senator Al Franken introduced to the Senate. In 2005 Jamie Leigh Jones was brutally gang raped by her KBR coworkers while in Iraq. She was locked in a shipping container for more than 24 hours to prevent her from reporting it. If you don't know who KBR is, its a division of Halliburton that was relocated offshore to avoid paying federal taxes after being given a no bid contract for services in Iraq by the Bush administration. That's right our tax dollars pay KBR and they avoid paying taxes back to the government, as in our government. But that's an entirely different story. Anyways Senator Al Franken introduced an amendment that would deny defense contracts to any company that required their employees to sign away their right to sue their employer. Iraq being outside U.S. jurisdiction and a signed letter saying she could not sue KBR has left Jamie Leigh Jones with no recourse against her attackers. Thirty Republican Senators voted against the amendment. These senators included John McCain, Saxby Chambliss, Sam Brownback, and John Ensign who is in hot water for payoffs to cover up a sex scandal of his own. I wonder how they would have voted if it was their own daughter who was raped? On a side note these same senators all voted to stop funding ACORN. This is a blatant example of partisan politics and shows the republicans are not thinking clearly at this point.