Who in the world could be against the Senate Bill S. 1925, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011 . Simply put, it was a bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994. I mean really, who is FOR violence against women?
Apparently 31 Republican Senators are.
Here is the "Roll Call" of shame of the "Nays" from the April vote:
| Barrasso (R-WY) Blunt (R-MO) Boozman (R-AR) Burr (R-NC) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Cornyn (R-TX) DeMint (R-SC) Enzi (R-WY) Graham (R-SC) | Grassley (R-IA) Hatch (R-UT) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE) Johnson (R-WI) Kyl (R-AZ) Lee (R-UT) Lugar (R-IN) McConnell (R-KY) Moran (R-KS) | Paul (R-KY) Risch (R-ID) Roberts (R-KS) Rubio (R-FL) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) Toomey (R-PA) Wicker (R-MS) |
Could the "Party of NO" be so out of control that they'd actually take a position of insensitivity to violence against women just because the original bill was signed into law by a Democratic President?
I had a friend who was wearing a tee shirt from the what used to be "Women's Strength" in Peoria. The shirt said "You can't beat a woman". She was at some event downtown and a complete stranger walked up to her and whispered in her ear, "You wanna make a bet?" Then he leered and walked away.
Until that type of climate for women is gone, bills such as S. 1925 are necessary.
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