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Time to Drop-Kick the Dems, Ladies

Is the party prepared to get reelected without women?

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 11, 2009 3:59 AM CST
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(Newser) – House Democrats got their health care package through, but not before selling women down the river (again) by "restricting access to abortion in unprecedented ways," complains Kate Harding in Salon. The latest betrayal is just more evidence that it's time for women to dump the Dems, "who act exactly like Republicans did before their party moved so far right it landed on a different planet," she fumes. Democrats not only bargain with abortion rights, a key issue to their staunch supporters, but denigrate women who get all "fluttery" about it, notes Harding.


"Don't you want poor people to have insurance, you selfish bitches?" is how Harding characterizes the typical attitude. "Such men assume that we just don't get it, because if we did, we'd shut our big mouths," she adds. "There's only one logical conclusion: This is not our party. Progressive women have finally had enough. Are Democrats ready to try getting elected without us?"

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is joined by the Democratic leadership for a press conference after the passage in the house of the health care reform bill at the Capitol.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is joined by the Democratic leadership for a press conference after the passage in the house of the health care reform bill at the Capitol.   (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addresses a news conference at Swedish Medical Center this week.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addresses a news conference at Swedish Medical Center this week.   (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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divetrader
Nov 11, 2009 12:56 PM CST
Women should always have the right to choose. It is time to abort the blue dog dems.
divetrader
Nov 11, 2009 12:52 PM CST
Hahahaha! Good one rotting cedar. I am especially impressed with misnomer where you claim to think.
SilenceDogood
Nov 11, 2009 12:42 PM CST
Here is what we do girls, we start a media campaign against those Dems and Repubs that will not let us Girls have abortions. We will call it LAFA, “Liberal Are For Abortions”; it’s got a nice ring to it. We will demand our right, as LB’s, “Liberal Bitches”, to have the Federal Government fund our right to kill our unborn children. We can have abortion marches that CNN will cover, we can get great human rights stories on how some women were forced to start using contraceptives and practicing intelligent common sense birth control.

 
Nancy Pelosi • health care • abortion rights • women's rights • Right to Life • House of Representatives • pro-choice • Stupak-Pitts

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