Posted on 11/10/2006 10:37:32 AM PST by StopGlobalWhining
If you should happen to telephone Ambassador John Bolton’s office at the United Nations, chances are good the person who answers your call will be one Peggy Kerry. Does that name ring a bell? Perhaps it should.
According to a July 27, 2004 article in the Washington Times, Miss Kerry was the featured speaker at an event sponsored by the NOW in conjunction with the Democratic National Convention. “And he has a secret weapon,” Kerry boasted. “It seems to me that it’s up to the women, because when women vote, Democrats win.”
And which “he” was Miss Peggy talking about? Why, brother John, of course. Senator John Kerry, Democratic candidate for president of the United States.
I’m certain that Miss Kerry is well-qualified to work as a press aide. But really, how can the State Department be so clueless as to allow an avowed political and ideological foe of President Bush to hold such a sensitive position? Why not assign her to an understaffed consulate in, say, Mozambique?
Tuesday night, President Bush’s Republican party hemorrhaged blood all over the TV screen. The Dems took control of the House of Representative and registered solid gains in the Senate. But the electoral losses certainly weren’t for Bush failing to appease the rad-fems.
Under the Clinton two-for-the-price-of-one presidency, a bevy of feminist-inspired programs sprang up throughout the federal bureaucracy. [www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2006/0531roberts.html] A decade later, most of those programs are going stronger than ever, sucking up taxpayer money, violating men’s civil rights, and destroying families.
Remember Title IX, the well-meaning program that Clinton appointee Norma Cantu turned into a rigid quota system that shut down hundreds of men’s sports teams? Just because Cantu was shown the door doesn’t mean the buzz-saw was turned off.
Recently James Madison University in Virginia, which has a student body that is 61% female, announced its decision to cut 10 sports teams, including wrestling, swimming, cross-country, indoor and outdoor track, archery, and gymnastics. Why? Even though 51% of all JMU student-athletes are female, that wasn’t enough to satisfy the bean-counters at the Department of Education. [www.iwf.org/title_IX.asp]
Taxpayer-funded abortions is another feminist priority. Last year Bush Administration employees had a field day awarding $265 million in grants and contracts to Planned Parenthood. That tidy sum allowed the group to perform nearly 250,000 abortions. And with its spare change, Planned Parenthood filed lawsuits against bans on partial birth abortions.
And then there were the bureaucrats at the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) who didn’t like the idea of divorced fathers seeing their kids. So in direct violation of federal ethics rules, they took it upon themselves to tell the North Dakota legislators to defeat a shared parenting initiative.
Their reasoning? It’s better to let fatherless kids become drop-outs and juvenile delinquents – that way the state can rake in millions of federal welfare money.
Shame on ACF head Margo Bean for tolerating these bureaucratic shenanigans.
To his credit, President Bush did manage to shoehorn $150 million into last year’s welfare reform law to promote marriage and fatherhood. But that money will do little to stem the destructive effects of Clinton time-bomb programs like the Violence Against Women Act.
In most states, domestic violence is defined so broadly that sending mental telepathic messages is now considered be a form of harassment and worthy of state intervention – remember the David Letterman case? [www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2005/1228.html]
These laws allow any half-witted welfare queen to game the system. All she has to do is utter this phrase: “Judge, I’m feeling afraid for my safety.” No proof of injury or physical violence is needed.
Presto! Those 7 words will get her man kicked out of the house and excuse her from return-to-work welfare requirements. Don’t worry that the kids have now been deprived of their daddies, the state will be there to provide.
All this puts the Department of Justice feminists in high spirits, because with the stroke of a judge’s pen, another family has been dissolved, a patriarch has been de-throned, and the statistics of “abused” women continue to mount.
Of course, there’s an obvious solution to this travesty – remove the perverse incentives to lie. But then the N.O.W. lobby might accuse you of being “anti-woman.”
One of these days, the G.O.P. will come to its senses and realize that you can never appease the Gender Guerillas. Kow-towing to the rad-fem agenda is a losing political strategy. Mr. President, it’s time to do some housecleaning.
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Carey Roberts analyzes and lampoons political correctness. His best-known work is an exposé on Marxism and radical feminism. Mr. Roberts’ work has been cited on the Rush Limbaugh show and has been published regularly in The Washington Times. Besides serving as a Guest Writer for OpinionEditorials.com, he has published at LewRockwell.com, ifeminists.net, Men’s News Daily, and elsewhere.
CareyRoberts@comcast.net
Not this woman, sister. The "new tone" is now the "dead tone."
Feminist operatives are about 12th on the list of those Bush needs to deal with.
The only thing Bush is going to rein in are conservatives.
So, now probably John Bolton will leave and Peggy Kerry will stay.
We should credit President Bush for appointing Bolton and others like him, even if he failed to get him through because he didn't want to offend little Lincoln Chaffee by leaning on him a little harder.
But what in the world is he thinking of leaving all those other carterites and clintonoids in place, undermining everything he does, leaking to the press, and preparing the way for the next Democrat administration by making him look bad?
Well... he was preparing the way for the next Democrat administration, of course.
There is no real change in Washington. Just who gets to do the bidding of TPTB.
Clintoon did welfare reform and NAFTA. Things Repubs couldn't.
Bush did Patriot I and II. Things Demos couldn't do.
People were worried about Patriot in Bush's hands.
Wait'll they see what Hellary does with it.
President Bush never really fought hard for a conservative agenda, and neither did the GOP as a whole, and we will suffer because of it.
The Left are true ideologues, and believe me, they will ram through their agenda.
Some of their agenda will make sense, like rewriting the bancruptcy law so the working poor hit by unpayable medical expenses can get some relief, and the absurd Indian-casino wrought bill outlawing online poker will be overturned, but everything else, from gun control to Iraq to homosexual rights to new greenhouse and CAFE standards, will just push us headlong into European-type Leftism.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and the GOP, which trumpeted but did not practice Conservative ideals, now finds itself ushered out and a new party which DOES live up to its ideals (bad though they may be) comes into power for probably the next 10 years...
Ed
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Don't give up hope! I felt sick for the first 24 hours after the election, and now I'm MAD! Fired up! We can't let the bastards grind us down. There are NOT more of them than us! They're just driven, like any possessed person.
We need to get seriously fired up and if we each do whatever we can individually, and if in concert, so much the better - the tide can turn. And if not, at least we've done our best.
Never Give Up!
I still feel sick to my stomach, and very depressed, over what happened Tuesday.
The GOP squandered all those years of control, and it was totally uneccesary...people in positions of power KNEW we were heading for a fall, yet did nothing about it, or the pols they talked to were too stupid or egotistical to change their ways.
Thanks for your words of encouragement, Jeremiah.
Ed
I'll admit I still feel queasy in the abdominal area - literally. But I feel fired up as well. Screw the ***holes! They can't win - because if they do, the entire world will head south in a handbasket in a few short years.
I believe wholeheartedly that God's will is the ultimate deciding factor. We have our free will, within limitations, and then we have to experience the reaction of that free will. But in the meantime, the divine plan will prevail, utlimately.
We just need to be determined and courageous to do our part, whatever that may be.
I fervently hope that this defeat will inspire conservatives to be strong and adhere to principle more. Trying to be popular is NOT where it's at. Standing up for real conservative principles is the only way - and if we lose, at least that is an honorable defeat. But to lose while playing for the MSM and leftist audiences is a shameful defeat.
A lot can happen in two years.
People need to get active locally. I don't believe hope is lost. People need to do whatever they can, large or small, to turn this around.
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