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Watched Sen. McCaskill in yesterday's military rape hearing. Couldn't forget about her challenger.
Jump to the 1:25 mark of this video of PBS NewsHour's report on yesterday's military sexual assault US Senate hearing. It's a video of Sen. Claire McCaskill stating: (transcript)
This isn't about sex. This is about assaultive domination and violence. And as long as those two get mushed together, you all are not going to be as successful as you need to be at getting after the most insidious part of this, which is the predators in your ranks that are sullying the great name of our American military.
Watching this senator grilling military leaders about sexual assault got me remembering her disgraceful, classless, gutter opponent from last year who went on TV and coined the phrase "legitimate rape". Yep. That guy Todd Akin, who even is considering a comeback! Seeing McCaskill at the hearings also made me so glad that the people of Missouri came to their senses and re-elected HER rather than Mr. Legitimate Rape. Given that Akin served in the House Armed Service Committee, could you IMAGINE what kind of questions Akin would've asked if HE replaced McCaskill in the Senate Armed Services Committee? "Wouldn't the female servicemembers have shut down the rapists?"
In the video right before McCaskill's video is POWERFUL questioning by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: "Not all commanders are objective. Not every single commander necessarily wants women in the first. Not every single commander believes what a sexual assault is. Not every single commander can distinguish between a slap on the ass and a rape, because they merge all of these crimes together." I've heard other clips of Gillibrand at the hearing elsewhere (like NPR I think). Wow. McCaskill and Gillibrand must have been ON FIRE yesterday...enough to burn the pride out of Odierno, Dempsey, and the clueless pinhead military commanders!
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Senators McCaskill and Gillibrand should be commended.
And the mere thought of "Senator A-" makes me want to 
