Congressional GOP still wife-beaters after all these years

The more things change, the more the wife-beaters in the Republican Party stay the same.

The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 was one of Congress's great legislative accomplishments of that era. The ACLU later said it was "one of the most effective pieces of legislation enacted" against domestic violence and other crimes.

But the Refug-a-lugs were against this law right from the giddy-up, because they think women are property. That's what much of their 1994 electoral campaign was about: repealing this law. Once they stole that "election", they tried to cut the law's funding. Later, in 2000, a right-wing Supreme Court gutted much of the Violence Against Women Act by striking down the part that gave women the right to sue their attackers. That was yet another instance of the far-right war on women.

Last year, the Violence Against Women Act came up for renewal. The Democratic-led Senate voted 68 to 31 to reauthorize it. But the Republican-led House refused all year long to bring it up for reauthorization. The law is now dead.

The Violence Against Women Act funded violence prevention services, protections for evicted domestic violence victims, rape crisis centers, and other programs. Now all of that is gone.

Shame on the Republicans and the Tea Party.

(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/02/1175747/-Hooray-Domestic-violence-victims-officially-screwed-over-by-House-GOP)