David Vitter (R-LA) was more than happy to vote with 29 of his fellow, male Republicans to allow a corporation the freedom to allow the rape of its employees, but when it came time to face an actual victim of rape? Well, let's just say there was some major shrinkage.
WOMAN: It meant everything to me that I was able to put the person who attacked me [behind bars]. And what allowed me to do that was our judicial process. I showed up in court every day to make sure that happened.
VITTER: And I'm absolutely supportive of any case like that being prosecuted criminally to the full extent of the law.
But he's perfectly happy if the rapist(s) walk when a woman is drugged, gang-raped, locked in shipping container and then threatened by her employer?
WOMAN: But there are rape victims who are being kept silent.
WOMAN: But how can you support a company that tells a rape victim that she does not have the right to defend herself?
VITTER: Ma'am The language in question did not say that in any way shape or form.
WOMAN: But it is unconstitutional to have a law that says a woman does not have a right to defend herself.
VITTER: You realize Mr. Obama was against that amendment and his administration was against that amendment
WOMAN: But I'm not asking Obama. I'm asking you.
VITTER: Do you think he's in favor in rape?
WOMAN: I'm asking you Senator. What if it was your daughter who was raped? Would you tell her to be quiet and take it? Would you tell your daughter to be silent?
Of course the woman never received an answer to her question, because after totally mischaracterizing the President's view, Vitter ran like a baby looking for his next diaper change.
Gutless.
For more discussion, see The Erratic Synapse's diary.