First up, Go to No Quarter for an exceptional post that includes this:
Naturally, a woman’s physical attributes and her wardrobe somehow must always figure into the equation – even for a politician. In covering last week’s Senate confirmation hearings for Hillary Clinton, WaPo’s ever bitter Dana Milbank had this to say:
The questioning of Clinton, who sat at the witness table in an olive-brown jacket that brought to mind military fatigues…
Well, no, Dana. If you want to get technical about it, she was wearing a warm, feminine chocolate brown suit and the bracelets that adorned her wrists were another nice touch not particularly resembling chain mail – you dolt.
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/01/29/this-is-the-way-women-are-gr...
And then hustle over to Heidi Li’s Potpourii for her spot on comments re Lilly Ledbetter and what is still missing from O’s mouth, such as:
He's said nothing about pressing forward on the larger issue of equal pay for equal work and what the government could do about it. He's ignored calls from every quarter to create anything like a Presidential Empowerment of Woman Advisory Board (PEWAB), such as I have mentioned, or a Commission on Women as has been proposed by WomenCount.
http://tdg.typepad.com/heidi_lis_potpourri/2009/01/women-need-an-emancip...
And then, follow Heidi’s link to Uppity Woman for a very intelligent take on Ledbetter, which includes this message to the Reds:
To complain today about Lilly Ledbetter is to look like a hypocrite after embracing so many women who felt discrimination at its worst during the last Presidential campaign. I suggest that my Republican friends let your representatives know that women do read and have IQs and they do watch, and that they should stop behaving like hypocrites on this Good day for women, mmmmmmmkay? Just food for thought. Nothing more.
Plus this message to Obama:
Barack Obama didn’t practice what he is preaching today with his own campaign employees. So, really, the women who worked for him should start suing him right now. Let’s take a little trip down recent-memory lane to June, 2008.
Obama’s Equal Pay, Yet Pays Female Staffers Less Than Males data calculated from the Report of the Secretary of the Senate, which covered the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 2007. Of the five people in Obama’s Senate office who were paid $100,000 or more on an annual basis, only one — Obama’s administrative manager — was a woman.
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/lilly-ledbetter-and-the-ma...
Fandamntabuolus stuff all!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep it up, move the message!
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