Posted on 03/15/2013 12:21:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai
When state Sen. Janea Holmquist Newbry, R-Moses Lake, left the Senate floor Tuesday to nurse her newborn son, Senate Democrats didn’t miss a beat.
Immediately they moved to take over the chamber.
While minority Democrats say they were making an important political point, outraged members of the Republican-leaning Majority Coalition Caucus say a greater principle of basic human decency is involved. They say they are incredulous that the Senate Democratic Caucus would take advantage of a situation created when a mother left to breastfeed her child. …
The incident reflects the frustration Democrats feel this year after a takeover in the Senate by a coalition majority that has left them at a one-vote disadvantage. But it presents an enormous irony. It came on the 20th anniversary, almost to the day, of a similar case that turned the Washington Legislature upside down and forced legislative leaders to concede they had been insensitive toward working mothers. At the time, Democratic leaders declared that some things are more important than politics, and it offered a symbolic moment of triumph for women’s groups in what was then called the Year of the Woman. That case involved a Democrat, Lisa Brown, who rose to become leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus. Brown retired last election and her caucus is under new management. …
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More Democratic Party war on women. It never ends.
If she’d had a sensible Motherwear blouse, she wouldn’t have had to leave the room!
The Dems only show that courtesy to their own (Lisa Brown).
Sent to Drudge. Let’s hope he features this.
Proof positive there is an ongoing GOP War On Women.
/never mind
Not guilty
Thanks. Nice pictures. Now that they’ve exposed themselves yet again, it’s time for republicans to wage a constant, aggressive take no prisoners war against each and every one of them until their voices are reduced to whimpers.
Would you subject a newborn to Democrat politicians?!
What is pathetic is the surprised Republicans. When will they realize the Dems declared war long ago?
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