^^^ Two top Democrats: This morning Secretary Kerry is testifying before the Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign operations to discuss the State Department's budget.
According to Politico, Democratic
National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz invoked strong language
Wednesday to attack Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on women’s issues, saying the
Republican “has given women the back of his hand.”
“Scott
Walker has given women the back of his hand. I know that is stark. I know that
is direct. But that is reality,” Wasserman Schultz said at a round-table
discussion in Milwaukee, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The
Florida Democratic representative continued, extending her comments to the GOP.
“What
Republican tea party extremists like Scott Walker are doing is they are
grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back. It is not going to happen on our
watch,” Wasserman Schultz said.
When I first heard that I laughed out loud and
then the lyrics to one of my favorite Pink songs, The Kind Is Dead But The Queen Is Alive, ran through me head:
Rah rah rah,
Sis boom fuckin' blah
There's a party in your honour, but you won't be there whatever...
Sis boom fuckin' blah
There's a party in your honour, but you won't be there whatever...
And then, of course, as the GOP swarmed and
distorted the truth of what she said, actually trying to turn the tables on her
and make her look anti-women, she walked it back ~ sort of and said, according
to her statement as reported in the Miami Herald:
"I
shouldn’t have used the words I used. But that shouldn't detract from the
broader point that I was making that Scott Walker’s policies have been bad for
Wisconsin women, whether it's mandating ultrasounds, repealing an equal pay
law, or rejecting federal funding for preventative health care, Walker's record
speaks for itself. As for the issue of domestic violence, it's
unacceptable that a majority of Congressional Republicans opposed this critical
legislation, of which I was a proud cosponsor, after blocking its
reauthorization for more than a year.”
I am not upset at the Congresswoman for her
decision to re-assess the language she used, in fact, I suspect her
strategy to take the ability of a GOP that can dish it out but can’t take it is exactly why she is a successful Congresswoman and the Chair of the DNC and I
am not ~ she’s a smart woman.
I first
saw the Congresswoman in a 2010 clip of a Fort Lauderdale, Florida Town Hall
where she was talking to an audience filled with rabid GOP-ERS flipped out over
the Affordable Health Care Act.
One
rabid audience member, and I’m going on memory here, stood up and made some
wild accusation about her being in favor of the Act because of her own cancer.
She handled it calmly and professionally. She also peaked my curiosity so I
Googled her.
I
found out that the Congresswoman had BRCA1 and BRCA2 issues that put
her at an increased risk for breast and ovarian cancers. As a result, she
had gone through a year of procedures, treatments and recovery AND she had
hardly missed a day’s work for us while doing so.
I
have been an admirer of her and her work ever since.
But, let’s not get caught up in the venomous party politics of the
GOP ~ let’s be more constructive than and let’s take our lead from the
Congresswoman and take a look at the broader point that she was making which
really was, as I interpret it, a call out to women and those who love women to vote the entire GOP Neanderthal Party out of office in November based on their real #waronwomen policies.
Fortunately for you and
me PoliticusUSA developed a list of legislation to prove that the GOP war on women is real:
Conservatives like to pretend there is
no war on women, so PoliticusUSA developed a running list of legislation to
prove that there is indeed a war on women. The proof is in the policy, and
policy trumps words.
Included in
Hrafnkell Haraldsson’s monthly updates to the “Dirty Thirty” (a list of egregious legislation proposed
or passed) is a surreal list of legislation that proves the war on women is
very real…
Let’s give a shout out to one of my personal favorites first ~ the GOP effort to nullify a woman’s constitutional right to privacy because party members cannot stand the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision that said at least in the first trimester a woman’s private life is none of their business. There’s a good summary of that here.
Let’s give a shout out to one of my personal favorites first ~ the GOP effort to nullify a woman’s constitutional right to privacy because party members cannot stand the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision that said at least in the first trimester a woman’s private life is none of their business. There’s a good summary of that here.
Now, let’s take a look at some of the other areas
of policy where the GOP is slowly working to disconnect the middle-class on down
from any government services ~ disconnects that will hit women the hardest.
We can support the Congresswoman and give Walker and his ilk the back of our hand by hearing her message and by voting accordingly.
Don't forget:
G.
There is so much more information to be found on the GOP #waronwomen ~ Here are a couple more links to some of my reading material if you'd like to know more:
(Gratitude to http://copyranter.blogspot.com/2011/01/fascinating-anti-womens-suffrage-ad.html for the 1915 ad!)
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