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Boehner fired up, chastises Dems for creating "war on women"

April 27, 2012 11:24 AM

John Boehner accused President Obama and Democrats of politicizing the debate on the student loan bill in a passionate speech on the House floor Friday. The Speaker also said Democrats created the "war on women" rhetoric.

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by OldTimeTruth May 24, 2012 1:42 PM EDT
Boehner is nothing more then a old time snake oil salesman. Wonder why all of a sudden he is mad. I think womens rights have been on the table for a long time. He just wrote them off untill now. Maybe some women are saying to him NO. It's our way or the highway. LOL
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by irreverentasever May 16, 2012 11:53 PM EDT
Well you know Not a Dry Eye Boehner it's all written in the Mormon Book of Foolish Words that women obey their idiot men.
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by calif7 May 5, 2012 11:14 AM EDT
Hey John-Check out Arizona.
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by steeepe May 2, 2012 5:02 PM EDT
That's hilarious and typical of the GOP: charge your opponent with doing what you do. Bonehead and the rest are a bunch of lying hypocrites.
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by TJphoto May 1, 2012 7:04 AM EDT
PAGE ONE Republican Playbook. "If you tell a lie long enough and often people will start to believe it". Someone back in the 1930s did the same thing.
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by marychgo April 29, 2012 7:34 PM EDT
Sorry, John, but the Democrats didn't need to CREATE a GOP war on women; they (and we women around the country) have been OBSERVING a GOP war on women, day by day, bill by bill.

How many anti-abortion and/or anti-Planned Parenthood bills has the Republican House passed since January 2011? How many "personhood" bills and referenda are Republicans supporting around the country? In how many states are Republicans pushing other limits on women's health: unnecessary licensure requirements, ultrasounds, transvaginal ultrasounds, two or three day waits? How many times have GOPers tried to take current funding or PPACA funding away from women's health to fund other, unrelated initiatives?

And that doesn't even touch Ryan's budget or Romney's "plans," where cuts in programs like Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, WIC, etc. have a disproportionate effect on women.

You can call it "policy," John, but to your victims, it feels like war!
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by bbglow April 29, 2012 3:57 PM EDT
Attribute, by whatever means, your greatist weakness to your opponent. --Political Axiom #1--

If you can't convince with facts, dazzle with bull crap. --Political Axiom #2--
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by merilieu April 29, 2012 3:55 PM EDT
It's pretty hard to fabricate actual, enacted legislation. Look at the facts and then decide for yourself instead of swallowing the propaganda:

http://17atheart.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/war-on-women-a-list-of-links-to-anti-woman-legislation/
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by forrestt56 April 28, 2012 1:44 PM EDT
How does the content of this article relate to the title?
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by MaleMatters April 28, 2012 10:58 AM EDT
Women are a majority since as a group they outlive men, who die sooner of the 12 leading causes of death. Because men as a group are penalized by an earlier death, they are a minority that is also penalized by having less political importance.

Thus, Democrats, seeing women as more important to elections than men, are strategically waging a war on Republicans by accusing them of waging a war on women.

But Democrats wage a war on women, too, of an insidious kind. They recklessly pander to women. They continually promise them something for nothing and disregard the business costs that hurt women as much as men.

An example of Obama's pandering is the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Obama signed it into law solely to repay feminists for upping female votes. While the President tells women the act will help close the gender wage gap, he won't tell them this:

No law yet has closed the wage gap — not the 1963 Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, not Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, not the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act, not the 1991 amendments to Title VII, not affirmative action, not diversity, not the countless state and local laws and regulations, not the horde of overseers at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and not the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

Here's why:

Millions of wives still choose to have no pay at all. In fact, according to Scott Haltzman, author of "The Secrets of Happily Married Women," stay-at-home wives constitute a growing niche. "In the past few years," he says at http://*******.com/6reowj, "many women who are well educated and trained for career tracks have decided instead to stay at home." ("Census Bureau data show that 5.6 million mothers stayed home with their children in 2005, about 1.2 million more than did so a decade earlier...." http://*******.com/qqkaka. If indeed more women are staying at home, perhaps it's because feminists and the media have told women for years that female workers are paid less than men in the same jobs, so why bother working if they're going to be penalized and humiliated for being a woman.)

Stay-at-home wives earn zero. How can they afford to do this while in many cases living in luxury? Because they're supported by a husband, an "employer" who pays them to stay at home.

If millions of wives are able to accept NO wages, millions of other wives can:

-accept low wages
-refuse overtime and promotions
-choose jobs based on interest first, pay second — the reverse of what men tend to do
-work part-time instead of full-time
-take more unpaid days off
-avoid uncomfortable wage-bargaining

All of which lower women's average pay.

Women are able to make these choices because they're supported, or anticipate being supported, by a husband who must earn more than if he'd chosen never to marry — which is how MEN help create the wage gap.

So does the Ledbetter Act help or pander to women?

"Will the Ledbetter Act Help Women?" at http://malemattersusa.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/will-the-ledbetter-fair-pay-act-help-women/
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