Is Michele Bachmann getting stranger and dumber? An ideological shrine to abortion? Give me a break.
HR863 sounds like a bill to pass. It authorizes a study on how to move forward with the women’s museum initiative. Why shouldn’t there be a museum dedicated to the accomplishments of women in this country? According to rawstory.com:
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on Wednesday opposed the National Women’s History Museum by connecting it to “eugenics” and same-sex marriage.
During a House debate on whether or not Congress should appoint a commission to study how to move forward with building the National Women’s History Museum, Bachmann stood up and urged her colleagues to vote against the measure.
“I rise today in opposition to this bill because I believe ultimately this museum — that will be built on the National Mall on federal land — will enshrine the radical feminist movement that stands against the pro-life movement, the pro-family movement and the pro-traditional marriage movement,” she announced.
Michele Bachmann has never let facts stand in the way of her various uber-conservative causes. She seems to focus right in on the organization that all good conservative zealots love to hate–Planned Parenthood.
“Among the most troubling examples is the museum’s glowing review of the woman who embraced [the] eugenics movement in the United States, Margaret Sanger,” the Minnesota Republican explained. “She’s an abortion trailblazer, and she is the founder of Planned Parenthood, which this body has sought to defund.”
“Yet, the museum glosses over Margaret Sanger’s avid support for sterilization of women and abortion, and for the elimination of chosen ethic groups, particularly African-Americans, and classes of people.”
Fact-checking organizations, however, have repeatedly debunked the conservative myth that Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger, had created the organization as part of an African-American genocide plot.
Hopefully any museum on women would include all famous women or women’s groups. I suppose Bachmann wants to sanitize history to match with her ideological point of view. Revisionist history sounds dangerous. I suppose our posterity would never know that women took over the work civilian work force during WWII or that birth control allowed women to chart out their own destiny by allowing them to control their own reproduction. Maybe Bachmann also wants to ignore the fact that the Equal Rights Amendment has never passed and that women make 27 cents on the dollar less than men. Perhaps she wants to ignore that women even work outside the home.
Perhaps Bachmann still wants to ignore the fact that there is a war on women which so many conservatives want to deny, all while picking up the symbolic battle axe. UFB. Has she shut her eyes and ears to world events? Little Nigerian girls are kidnapped, a young woman is shot in the face for simply wanting to become educated and this war is ignored? Of course Americans abhor such violence. However, many apparently choose to ignore that those who want us to get our wimmin folk back into the home and off the pill and making babies aren’t too many steps beyond some of those Taliban-like behaviors. It’s all a matter of degree.
Sadly, here we go again. The museum for women on the national mall might fall victim to politics rather than highlight the many contributions of women in our national history.
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The Labor Force participation rate for women has dropped like a rock under Obama. I cannot dispute the fact that the contributions of women in the workplace ought to be documented in a museum given that the number of women working outside the home continues to shrink. My guess is that the “27 cents on the dollar” that women make has gotten even smaller under Obama’s watch since the number of under-employed Americans is growing.
Kelly, you know when Obama took office. Did you expect him to cure the Great REcession? If I can speak decently about George Bush, why do you have to always try to pin the entire recession on Obama, who wasn’t even in office when it hit? I don’t blame George Bush. In fact, listened to Paulson and attempted to put the necessary implementations in place to stave off disaster. I will give him credit there. The fact that things fell apart of his watch is fairly inconsequential.
Increasingly we move towards two Americas. Almost every single thing is politicized : Christmas, marriage, government, taxation, etc. etc. And increasingly the bulk of the 20th Century is spun by the FOX News viewers of the world as s sinister plot that’s taken America off its natural course.
I am one of those folks who feel that Faux News has taken America off its natural course. A bunch of old people and white men who feel that they are no longer the shots all sitting around getting worked up over false issues is not the healthiest situation for a country.
We can always count on the regular “blame Obama” meme, can’t we? When in doubt, “blame Obama”. Awesome. Thank you, Kelly, for my morning jolt of bizarro world.
Yes, Confused. I am smiling. Morning jolt of bizarre world. Bwaaahahahahahahaha
Thank YOU for making MY morning.
I think Kelly may have had a sip or two of the same Kool Aid that Bachman drinks.
Moon, I couldn’t stand to meditate on FOX News if it weren’t for The Daily Show doing it with humor and inherently restoring some faith in humanity. The first few minutes of last night’s show were a good example.
I will check it out. I am behind with Jon Stewart. Where does time go.
Sorry, my sense of time is confused by late-night NBA playoffs watching. I meant that Monday’s Daily Show was a great example – http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/x5iu5f/may-5–2014—mariano-rivera . The opening segment is quite deep.
@Moon-howler
You forgot “beautiful, longhaired women with long legs, short skirts, deep necklines,
and high heels” sitting around, supposedly discussing things.
Why Punchak…would you be describing a certain cable news show that resembles a” tits and ass” show?
Bring in the men of all ages and many of their wimmins will follow? hell of a marketing plan.
@Moon-howler
Oh please. You demonize conservative after conservative after conservative. If you criticized liberals every once in awhile, I might be tempted to give Obama a break. It is hard to resist though because his performance in every category has made him such an easy target.
I admit that Obama inherited a bad down turn, but it’s been well over 5 years. The statute of limitations on blaming the inherited recession is over. Obama fully owns the economy and labor stats.
How long did it take to come out of the Great Depression?
What liberals would you like me to go after? Is it liberals or Democrats you want me to vilify? I believe I got Anthony Weiner pretty good, didn’t I?
I don’t usually go after them because the conservatives have already beaten me to the punch. What you should look for is when I defend conservatives.
Let’s see, in recent months I have defended [gasp] Corey Stewart, John McCain, George Bush, just to name a few.
Wait, what?
@Moon-howler
I have to give credit where credit was due. You gave Weiner a hard time, and defended McCain and Bush, although neither are really conservative. But the Weiner discussion (that sounds bad) was a long time ago.
The Great Depression is another example of government mis-management. It did not have to last that long.
But it did and govt. kept a lot of people from starvation.
As for the Weiner discussions….ho ho ho…I can’t think of anyone recently who brought about my wrath. There was someone but I just don’t remember who. I am not fan of Pelosi either. I just don’t rag on her. She works hard. She whips people into shape. She just sounds stupid every time she opens her mouth.
I always felt Bush was conservative in ways I hated and liberal in ways I hated. I can’t stand his Supreme Court appointments.
I don’t hate Condi Rice. She was doing her job.
Oh Kelly, I thought of someone else. I wrote a very nice piece of Congressman Young when he died.
I identify as conservative — I have voted for conservatives in both parties, although the vast majority of conservative candidates these days are GOP.
Let me get this straight. We conservatives are now philosophically in the same army with Boko Haram as part of an alleged war on women? Doggone. Someone had better start printing programs for this political theater.
Myself, I am quite willing to lay off Obama a bit and criticize somebody else in his administration and party for five years of incompetence: Biden, Holder, Hillary Clinton, Jarrett, Pfeiffer, Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, Feinstein, Napolitano, Shineski, Wasserman-Shultz, etc., detc., etc. Gonna need a spread sheet here.
I find your declaration of incompetence laughable. Furthermore, Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, Feinstein, Wasserman, etc aren’t in his administration. He could hate their guts. Nothing he could do about it.
Why do you spend so much time on the hate trail? Why not enjoy your grand kids or get a dog? it just all seems so pointless.
Uh, please take notice of “and party” in that #20 sentence. I see them all as part of the incompetence package.
You are a hoot, Moon. You say I am on “the hate trail” after you just called Bachmann “stranger and dumber”? I didn’t even say that about Carl Levin. Now, if you want us to be on the same page for once, take a good, hard shot at Karl Rove and brain damage. I’ll join you on that one.
Michelle Bachmann is saying stranger and dumber things. Sorry. I wish I could change her. Carl Levin? Not even on my radar. Rove is a known liar. I would give Rush Limbaugh time before I gave it to Karl Rove. He made a stupid cheap shot. I expect nothing less from him.
Levin should be in your radar now. Up to his butt in IRS alligators.
I doubt if he will ever be on my radar. You are forgetting that I firmly believe that most applicants, liberal and conservative, need to not have their 501(C)3 rubber stamped through the system.
I know for a fact that liberal groups also had problems getting their status approved. It simply doesn’t bother me and I don’t see it as a plot of sorts.
How do you know that for a fact? I’m curious.
A U.S. Senator telling the IRS he wants them to go after opposition groups? And the IRS complying with his request? Oh, no, Madam. We all had better be concerned about things like that.