DNC's Wasserman Schultz Calls Republicans 'Callous' Toward Women

NY Times ^ | April 08, 2012 | Morgan Little

[Steelfish]

DNC's Wasserman Schultz Calls Republicans 'Callous' Toward Women

By Morgan Little April 8, 2012

Reporting from Washington— Democratic efforts to frame recent Republican policies and right-wing statements as part of a larger “war on women” led by the GOP took another step Sunday. On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz portrayed Republicans as “turning back the clock for women.”

“Gov. [Scott] Walkerjust signed a bill that repeals the equal pay law that they had in Wisconsin for years,” she said to host Candy Crowley. “You have Republicans that have engaged themselves for the entire Congress on trying to redefine rape as only being forceful rape, defunding Planned Parenthood and family planning programs.”

Wasserman Schultz’s remarks, in which she also called the GOP "callous and insensitive," follow Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus’ response Thursday to allegations of a war on women on Bloomberg TV.

“If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars, and mainstream media outlets talked about the fact Republicans have a war on caterpillars, then we have problems with caterpillars,” Priebus said.

Female voters have been a focal point for the Democratic Party since a string of controversies this year, from the aforementioned fights over Planned Parenthood’s funding, the provision of contraceptives by religions organizations to Rush Limbaugh’s disparaging comments toward Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke after she spoke to the House of Representatives.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Somebody needs to send Little Debbie a tribe size jar of BeanO.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Wonder what she will say about Dr. Pepper and their “Dr. Pepper TEN” ad campaign...you know...”Dr. Pepper TEN....it’s NOT for women.”

[NoLibZone]

They cant run on thier record.

Woman are worse off now then when Bush was president: Since Obama Took Office, The Unemployment Rate For Women Has Increased From 7.0 Percent To 8.1 Percent. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 4/6/12)

• Since The Stimulus Was Passed, The Unemployment Rate For Women Has Increased From 7.3 Percent To 8.1 Percent. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 4/6/12)

Since Obama Took Office, The Number Of Female Employees Has Declined By 683,000. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 4/6/12)

• Since Obama Took Office, The Number Of Women Unemployed Has Increased From 5,005,000 To 5,863,000. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 4/6/12)
• In March, The Number Of Women Employed Fell By 82,000. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 4/6/12)

The Female Labor Force Participation Rate Fell In March From 57.9 Percent To 57.7 Percent. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 4/6/12)

• The Number Of Women Not In The Labor Force In March Increased From 52.8 Million To 53.1 Million. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 4/6/12)

"The Poverty Rate Among Women Rose To 14.5 Percent Last Year, Up From 13.9 Percent In 2009-The Highest Rate In 17 Years." (Leslie Bennetts, "Women: The Invisible Poor," The Daily Beast, 9/14/11)

• The Extreme Poverty Rate - Income Below Half Of Federal Poverty Line - Is The Highest Ever Recorded Among Women. "The 'extreme poverty rate' among women was the highest ever recorded, climbing to 6.3 percent in 2010 from 5.9 percent in 2009. 'Extreme poverty' means that your income is below half of the federal poverty line-and by 2010, more than 7.5 million women had fallen into that dire category." (Leslie Bennetts, "Women: The Invisible Poor," The Daily Beast, 9/14/11)

In 2010, 17 Million Women Lived In Poverty, Compared To 12.6 Million Men. "What all those statistics add up to is that more than 17 million women were living in poverty last year, compared with 12.6 million men. As usual, things were worse for older women; twice as many women over 65 were living in poverty, compared with men." (Leslie Bennetts, "Women: The Invisible Poor," The Daily Beast , 9/14/11)

• The Poverty Rate Is 25.6 Percent For Black Women And 25 Percent For Hispanic Women. "And those numbers just represented the population-wide average. For Hispanic and black women, the poverty rate increased even faster and rose higher-to 25 percent for Hispanic women and to 25.6 percent for black women." (Leslie Bennetts, "Women: The Invisible Poor," The Daily Beast, 9/14/11)
• More Than 40 Percent Of Single Mothers Live In Poverty. "As usual, single mothers are having the hardest time of all. More than 40 percent of women who head families are now living in poverty. With more than half of poor children living in female-headed families in 2010, the child poverty rate jumped to 22 percent." (Leslie Bennetts, "Women: The Invisible Poor," The Daily Beast, 9/14/11)

[bmwcyle]

It could be just you Deb.

[NoLibZone]

She then went on to a DNC event hosted by the Hip Hop industry called: Better livin’ for hos and bitches.

[gorush]

And to think that Justice Thomas will be totally unaware of this development. (Lucky, and smart, man)

[unixfox]

All those Republicans at Augusta Country Club have ZER0 regard for women like her.

[peteyd]

Democracks started this “war” on women.
Can’t say war on terror,but war on women well,that’s ok.
Yeah Dums,you make a lot of sense.

[ponygirl]

Aww, WassaMatta Schultz? Can’t talk past that tongue in your mouth? Say it, don’t spray it babe.

[antidemoncrat]

Wheresherbrain is just demonstrating her party's strategy for the election. Divide America along racial, gender, union participation and income bracket lines and then conquer.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I don’t know where this ditz comes up with this stuff. More Republican men than DemocRAT men ARE MARRIED TO WOMEN!

[RetiredTexasVet]

When you need whine to go with a losing argument, just call Debbie Syphilis-Test .... she’ll just whine and whine and whine until she wears you out. Sorta like the Food Stamp President’s filibuster answers to unanticipated/unscripted questions.

[ConservativeStatement]

What has Wasserman Schultz done for men?

[Steelfish]

They just want the media to pick up on this stuff even if false. The public hears the headline and that’s how they shape public opinion.

[bray]

Repubs are racist, sexist, homophobes....yawn.

Pray for America

[Navy Patriot]

Debbie should realize she has been shoveling so much DemoRat horse manure that she was sure to get callouses.

[Dogbert41]

Just curious, but how many dead baby girls in the dumpsters because of Republicans?

Few, aside from Romney.

[bigbob]

I still say if you turned Debbie Downer upside-Down, she’d make a fairly decent toilet brush

[cblue55]

Still haven’t figured out what Debbie’s gender is.