Posted on 12/13/2013 10:46:11 AM PST by Sub-Driver
December 13, 2013, 01:42 pm Pelosi: GOP 'disrespects' women
By Mike Lillis Republicans in Congress have a general "disrespect" for women that's reflected in their legislative agenda, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi charged Friday, adding that she applauds the prospect of America having its first female president.
The California Democrat said the GOP's policy priorities – from reproductive health to the economy to the environment – are evidence they have little concern for the issues women care the most about.
"[It's] disrespect," Pelosi said in an interview with MSNBC's Alex Wagner that aired Friday afternoon. "Whether it's pay equity and raising the minimum wage, whether it's paid sick leave, or whether it's support for … child care in our country."
Pelosi said she's been warning for more than two decades that congressional Republicans are opposed, not only to abortion, but to the notion of family planning.
"People didn't really believe me until [2011] when Republicans took the majority [and] one of the first things they did was to say, 'We're going to shut down government rather than fund Planned Parenthood,'" she said. "They've told me over and over again that they're not for family planning, domestically or internationally. It's a stunning thing."
Her comments came a week after House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) conceded that Republicans need to work harder to cater to women – constituents and candidates alike.
"Some of our members just aren't as sensitive as they ought to be," Boehner told reporters last week in the Capitol.
His remarks coincided with reports that the National Republican Congressional Committee has been counseling Republican staffers on how to run more effective campaigns against female opponents.
Pelosi, the first female Speaker in the country's history, has long-advocated for a greater role of women in politics. But she suggested Friday that the hurdles to success are much higher, particularly at the highest ranks.
"You know one thing for sure: If you're a woman and you're effective, you will be a target," Pelosi said. "It isn't a problem for me, because I care more about being effective than I care about being a target. But it is a problem when I'm trying to attract other women to run."
Pelosi also cheered the notion that the country might see its first female president in Hillary Clinton.
"I always thought that we would have a woman president long before Congress would recognize that women should lead the way here, because the American people are way far ahead of Congress in terms of recognizing the leadership of women in our country and the desire to have a woman president," she said.
"And now we have the prospect, and that's a great thing."
“In 1933 President FDR appointed the first female Cabinet Secretary, Frances Perkins, as Labor Secretary. 30 years later Margaret Chase became the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for President at the Republican National Convention of 1964; and 20 years later, in 1984 (a date that is clearly within my political memory), Geraldine Ferraro became the first woman on a major party ticket. “
Obamacare is a war on women. All women will have worse health care when this debacle is fully lodged in the backs of Americans.
The phony Global Warming scam is a war on women. American women will become third world poor if the $700 in Cap n’ Trade type taxes, fines and regulations are imposed.
How many women die from violence in Democrat-run cities vs. Republican run-cities.
Pelosi should’ve had her mouth wired shut decades ago if she had an inkling that she would pour out a continuous steam of lies when she got older.
I'd really like to see her strictest nun from grade school get ahold of her!
(Assuming the nun was still young and has become 45 feet tall with a 9 foot long ruler)
democrats routinely deal in child pornography.
I don't think that I'd bring up the topic of reproductive health if I was the halfwit that forced the UnAffordable Healthcare Spraint down the throats of the American public!
Didn't anyone tell her that many Catholic hospitals will close rather than kill babies.
Although, judging from her statements on the Catholic faith and religion in general, I'm certain that she doesn't know much about anything connected to the church that she claims.
I'd be surprised if I found out that she has the ability to read.
The economy ?!?!?!?!?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
She's a Democrat. What would she know about the economy?!
The environment?
Democrats know about as much about the environment as most people know about incantations from the 1300’s. Everything about the gorebull warming hoax is pure non-Science.
Weiner: Perversion
Teddy: Adultery, Murder, Rape, Perversion
Menendez: Rape, Perversion, Sodomy
John, 'The Golden Pony' Edwards: Adultery
Al Global Warming' Gore-Tex: Adultery, Perversion with Masseuse, Sodomy
JFK: Adultery, Sodomy, Forcing Sodomy for a friend, Perversion, Murder?
RFK: Adultery, Murder?
LBJ: Fornication, Adultery
*I don’t know how you can stand up in front of the cameras and spew your lies.*
I wonder if her corpse will continue to lie after she’s dead?
I don't think anyone should invoke Godwin if the Nazi comparison is true...
I guess you didn't read the exit polls from Virginia, or even the 2012 exits.
It worked. I think you meant:
Intelligent Women know that it there is no war on women.
What Liberal Progressive Democrat Martin Bashir said:
This woman needs to have here mouth loaded with feces and excrement.”
“Some of our members just aren't as sensitive as they ought to be,” Boehner told reporters last week in the Capitol.”
Boehner and Pelosi never said a word when Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman and other Republican women were being unfairly attacked by Democrats. They never stood up for the honorable women who have been subjected to the most disgusting insults.
Now they come up with this nonsense.
Protip: It’s not my side that’s been making jokes about golden-showering the other side’s women.
I think the old cow will be to busy jumping flames in hell to even open her mouth..
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