Kathleen Parker supports the gang of 30
Submitted by ltss3yr2 on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 3:04pm
Kathleen Parker's op-ed piece today at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/23/AR200910... supporting the gang of 30 Republicans supporting no legal recourse for victims of rape defies all logic.
She says these senators were correct not to approve the amendment because it was "overbroad and might not be enforceable." Say what? The requirement in writing that legal recourse be denied a woman employee serving the government of the U.S. through its contracting authority can't be discovered to exist? And so, it's unenforceable to deny contracts to those requiring such employment conditions in writing?
And then Parker implies, as she quotes with seeming approval the DoD's desire to seek "'a statutory prohibition of all such arrangements in any business transaction entered into within the jurisdiction of the United States" the Republican gang of 30 are to be excused for their vote against legal recourse for victims of rape because it isn't broad enough. Oh, right. If you can't make the excellent law apply to every situation, then voting against it in locally or specifically defined areas means the gang of 30 has been "unfairly smeared for doing the harder thing for the right reasons."
Sorry, Kathleen Parker, you really, really missed the boat on this one. Logic must be hiking the Appalachian trail in Iraq.
Well said
Burr will spin and spin and spin to try to make his case for voting against the Franken amendment. But the truth is, Burr has done nothing in his entire tenure in the House and Senate on any front, let alone in efforts to help women who are victims. He just happily went along with the Bush agenda for years, and now he's doing nothing but obstructing Democratic efforts to clean up Bush's messes.
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.