It’s time once again to play everyone’s favorite game: What’s pissing me off now?

This time, it’s the House of Representatives that is pissing me off.  Specifically and not surprisingly, the Republicans in the House of Representatives.  Even more specifically, Eric Cantor (R-VAginas don’t matter).

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) expires at the end of this year and the Senate passed an updated version of the act that also protects immigrants, LBGTs, and Native Americans.  Sounds completely uncontroversial, right?

Not to Eric Cantor!  You see, right now, if a Native American woman is raped by a non-Native on Native soil, the Natives have no jurisdiction to prosecute the non-Native.  The jurisdiction falls to the Federal Government.  The Federal Government has close to zero capacity to prosecute such crimes.  The result being that rapists can basically rape with impunity.  The VAWA was updated to give tribal courts the power to prosecute rapes that happen on tribal lands.

Eric Cantor seems to think that if we give tribal courts the ability to protect Native American women from being raped by white men it could open the flood gates of letting Native Americans prosecute white boys for other crimes that they commit on Native lands.  Because of that hypothetical problem, Eric Cantor is perfectly fine with Native American women being raped and their rapists getting away with it.

And that’s what’s pissing me off now.