Amazing. Kos just posted on this, but I have some thoughts that don't fit in a comment. So let me get this straight:
- Al Franken introduces legislation designed to enable people who have been sexually assaulted to take their attacker to court;,
- Predictably, 30 Republicans vote against it;
- The "30" get called on it (site down, using google cache);
and -- here's the kicker -- the only person that's done something wrong is the GUY WHO PROPOSED THE LEGISLATION....NOT THE CLOWNS WHO REFUSED TO VOTE FOR IT?
Talk about taking your opponent's strength and casting it as a weakness.
And, yet again, it is working in some measure. Franken's office is not responding, or is claiming that they really do care about the feelings of the long-installed senators who couldn't see this coming, making THAT the issue. The fact that even a rag like POLITICO has anything to work with from Franken's office is frankly baffling.
I don't give a flux-capacitor about any senator's feelings, particularly ones who stand up to be counted to defend KBR's right to gang rape its employees.
Seems to me, all that is called for here is a Grayson-style response like:
"A Senator must vote his or her conscious; I did mine, and it seems they did theirs."
If the "30" feel the heat, all the better.