Posted on 02/25/2011 9:13:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
We know that Sarah Palin hunts animals on reality TV and cheers her daughter on ‘‘Dancing With the Stars’’ — but do we know that both conservative and liberal scholars rate Nancy Pelosi as one of the most successful speakers of the House in United States history?
We know that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann gave the Tea Party’s State of the Union response, believes that the founding fathers abolished slavery and urged her Minnesota constituents to be ‘‘armed and dangerous’’ — but do we know that Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California is calling for the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan?
We know that Christine O’Donnell assured voters she was no longer a witch or antimasturbation yet lost her bid to be a United States senator from Delaware — but do we know that Senator Barbara Boxer supported reproductive freedom and restricting of shore oil drilling yet defeated her Republican challenger, Carly Fiorina?
Representative Barbara Lee, Democrat of the Ninth District of California, in the Rayburn House Office Building.If you answered ‘‘no’’ to any of the above, you have the right to protest media that cover sideshows instead of the main event.
Political women like Pelosi, Lee and Boxer are the main event because they work hard for majority issues, stay civil in the face of opposition and benefit from the gender gap; that is, the difference between male and female voting patterns on issues that are even more critical to women than to men. So do senators like Dianne_Feinstein of California, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, as well as Congresswomen like Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, Maxine Waters of California, Carolyn Maloney of New York and Eleanor Holmes Norton of the District of Columbia — to name a few.....
(Excerpt) Read more at tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Please refresh us on the Pelosi “walk by”.
Did she simply brush imperially by, not deigning to even acknowledge the conservative rabble? That would sound typical.
As for Steinem, recall that she “infiltrated” the Playboy mansion in 1963. That’ll soon be a half century gone and she was pushing thirty then.
Age isn’t the issue, it’s just that Steinem is such a leftwing nutcake, kind of a progressive Gaddafi, and making about as much sense.
She should be ironing her husbands shirts.
My dad used to use that word. He never said where it came from, but he was sure it meant, "Ten pounds of sh!t in a five-pound bag."
That certainly describes the article.
BTW, he always pronounced it "blivit".
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