Last month, when 30 Republican senators signed on as corporate
sponsors of rape, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC)
was handed an extremely potent line of attack to use during next
year's elections.

And what's the response from the GOP on being called out for their
disgusting actions?

Privately, GOP sources acknowledge that they failed to anticipate the
political consequences of a “no” vote on the amendment.

Seriously? They voted against an amendment that was prompted by the
brutal gang-rape of a young woman by her co-workers while she was
working for a company under contract for the United States government,
after which she was locked in a shipping container without food or
water, threatened if she left to seek medical treatment, and was then
prevented from bringing criminal charges against her assailants. And
they failed to anticipate the political consequences?

Boy, are they stupid (among other, less flattering things).

And now they are kicking themselves for that stupidity -- no, not
because they showed an utter lack of sensitivity, decency, humanity,
or sense of justice -- but because they shouldn't have:

.... agreed to a roll-call vote on the measure, rather than a simple
voice vote that would have allowed the opposing senators to duck
criticism.

Yes, that was the problem with their vote. It was public.

From BarbinMD, Daily Kos