Larry Craig and his GOP supporters went on the assault against the cop who busted the closeted senator soliciting a temporary boyfriend in an airport bathroom. Jason Chaffetz, after trying the same  “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM!?!” in an airport (granted for a different thing) blamed the TSA agents for, well, not knowing who he was and treating an employee of the taxpayer (Congressman) just like regular folks. Supporters of Mark Foley ignored the details of his child-predatory behavior in favor of whining that Democrats were being unfair by bringing it up at all.

This is a behavior – a pathetic and, frankly, sociopathic reaction to getting caught – well – being yourself. While the GOP may not be the only culprit of this type of thing, they seem to maintain this, their last and only, majority.

So, it should come as no surprise that the elected members of the GOP are at it again, taking shots at freshman Senator Al Franken because Al, it turns out, thinks that the federal government shouldn’t be in the business of funding private businesses that support and encourage gang rape of their female employees.

From TPM:

The Politico reports that Senate Republicans are outraged at Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) due to their votes against an amendment he introduced, to crack down on the rape of employees of military contractors, now being used against them:

The Republicans are steamed at Franken because partisans on the left are using a measure he sponsored to paint them as rapist sympathizers — and because Franken isn’t doing much to stop them.

“Trying to tap into the natural sympathy that we have for this victim of this rape –and use that as a justification to frankly misrepresent and embarrass his colleagues, I don’t think it’s a very constructive thing,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said in an interview.

“I don’t know what his motivation was for taking us on, but I would hope that we won’t see a lot of Daily Kos-inspired amendments in the future coming from him,” said South Dakota Sen. John Thune, No. 4 in the Senate Republican leadership. “I think hopefully he’ll settle down and do kind of the serious work of legislating that’s important to Minnesota.”

These 30 REPUBLICANS – who voted against an amendment to stop the government funding of military contractors that encourage the gang rape of their female employees and protect the rapists they employ – are now upset that they are being held to their beliefs, as stated by the congressional record.

Let me localize this a little – thousands of Utahns can’t convince their Congress-Critters to support health care reform because those same Congress-Critters are TERRIFIED that those votes will be used against them by a right-wing noise machine that will distort, revise and – frankly – lie to get what it wants and punish those who vote in favor of making America a better place to live.

30 REPUBLICANS – and only Republicans – voted that – in their opinion – gang rape, and the subsequent protection and immunity for the rapists, is the American Way. I was unaware the the Janjaweed militias were a constant GOP voting block.

Maybe cheer leading gang rapists is the Republican Way? – Here, let me put it in Republican speak –  I don’t for a second support the notion that rational, sound-minded human beings think that such a thing should be funded by tax payer dollars. There, Republicans, did that make easier to understand? If I throw in taxpayers does it finally make GANG RAPE offensive enough that you’d vote against its support and protection?