“Diaper Dave” Vitter Tells Rape Victim, “BLAME OBAMA!!!”
The DC Madam’s special little fella didn’t care much for a rule that would make it impossible for corporations that permit employees to be raped to get Federal contracts. This isn’t much of a surprise, since Diaper Dave obviously has some deep-deated issues with women. I think I can say without sounding too cliched that Davy’s mommy didn’t pay him enough attention when he was a wee one (and he no doubt STILL has the diaper rashes to prove it.)
Yep, the only time Diaper Dave has any use for a woman is if she’s changing his stinky butt. You’ll find it no surprise, then, to see how Diaper Dave dismisses a rape victim who wanted to know why he thinks raping women is no big deal.
She didn’t get an answer, but she doesn’t really need to, does she? We know the answer.
Sen. David Vitter (W-Procter&Gamble.) had a heated exchange with a constituent over the weekend when she asked him why he opposed a bill that will protect the rights of some rape victims to take their attackers to court.
The bill stems from a 2007 case in which a Halliburton employee accused several co-workers of raping her when she was working for the company in Iraq. Her employment contract specifically required her to settle her complaint in arbitration rather than in criminal court. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) sponsored an amendment to the defense spending bill to block federal funding from government contractors with similar employment contracts. Vitter joined 29 Republicans in opposing the measure, which passed the Senate 68 to 30 in October. Republicans at the time said it would give Congress too much influence over Pentagon contracts.
At the weekend event, a woman, who has not been named in the media, approached Vitter after a health care town hall event that the senator sponsored in Baton Rouge. A video of the encounter shows her speaking to the senator as he is leaving, saying, “Senator, I am a rape victim.”
Vitter stops briefly to speak with her, but the two begin to speak over each other once the discussion turns to the Franken amendment.
Eventually Vitter says, “You realize President Obama was against that amendment and his administration was against that amendment?”
She responds, “But I’m not asking Obama. I’m asking you.”
“Do you think he’s in favor in rape?” Vitter asks rhetorically. “No.” He then walks away and leaves the building.
As he walks away, the woman calls out, “What if it was your daughter?”
A staffer from the Louisiana Democratic Party taped the exchange and posted on the party’s YouTube channel. Kevin Francks, a spokesman for the Party said the woman is a New Orleans native who went to the event to protest Sen. Vitter’s position on the Franken bill, but that the Democratic party did not coordinate her comments to the senator or know of her prior to this weekend’s interaction. Vitter is up for reelection in 2010.
“I think it was disconcerting that Sen. Vitter did not appear to give this rape survivor the time of day,” Francks said. “I doubt he would have turned his back if she had been a representative of Halliburton.”
Sen. Vitter’s office did not respond to requests for comment on the event, but the senator did speak with a local television station at the town hall, which he said was organized so that he could hear from his constituents about their concerns. “I think people’s biggest frustration is that they think they’re being shut out of the debate and they just aren’t heard in Washington,” Vitter told WBRZ-TV.
He got that one right, didn’t he? A lot of us are concerned that certain Senators don’t see women as being just as good as men, as one example. A lot of us would much rather get to work on feeding and clothing children already here than continuing to dither about abortion, as another example.
Oh well-maybe we could send a bunch of wet nurses to see the good Senator. I assume THAT, at least, would cause him to pay a little attention.
Tags: halliburton, misogyny, rape, rushpublicans, vitter
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:43 pm
You do a good job, for a guy
, of understanding some of women’s main political concerns. However, you fall down on the job when you suggest his momma is somehow responsible for his sickness, when really he is just doing what our misogynist society will let him get away with; so much so that he thinks he shouldn’t be called out on it. Also, he doesn’t need wet nurses to set him alright–again women are not objects for men’s needs and pleasures but are human beings in their own right. However, these are small points and I truly do take heart that there are some men on the progressive or liberal side of the tracks that try to understand sexism and it’s effects upon women the world over.
Al Franken is great isn’t he? :~))
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:02 am
liberality, you can’t say that with certainty any more than I can. There are some really f’d up women in the world, and a lot of them have kids. One from Alaska comes to mind…
And I would think that most people would see the “wet nurse” crack as some Oedipal-style sarcasm
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:47 am
As long as there is some understanding, I don’t really care how it is couched.
The republicans manage, at every possible intersection of right/wrong to come out on the wrong side. Talk about a self-destructive streak. Those 30 yokels who voted against the Franken amendment were basically trying to legalize rape. And I doubt they even understand the concept.
Great pic, that one made me lol.
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:32 pm
I saw this yesterday and cried for that woman. To be victimized once was bad enough but for her rep to do that was disgusting. What made it even more so was him trying to shift the blame to Obama when he was for it. The DoD had some words not the prez. I’m thinking the diaper coupons I sent this clown were not enough. I may have to go all in and send him the biggest pack of diapers I can find.