And speaking of sexist attacks and the unseemly attempt to give the bum’s rush to the first Madam Speaker in American history, guess who is silent on the issue? The sob-sisters of the Eternal 2008 Primary Butt-Hurt over at The New Agenda.
That bunch is still weeping bitter tears over the fact that some people thought Hillary Clinton should drop out of the primaries after being mathematically eliminated because to do so disrespected that historic candidate. But they’re not only utterly silent on the Pelosi issue, they’re trying to spin this week’s election results as a victory for women. Which it’s not.
Amy Siskind is, as usual, the rooster claiming credit for the sunrise, alleging in a bleg that she and her wealthy, dilettante cohorts were single-handedly responsible for McCain’s elevating Snowflake Snooki to national prominence and the subsequent Grizzly Mama revolution, which they claim enhanced women’s status in government.
Siskind may actually have a point about PUMA whinging prompting McCain to try to co-opt Clinton supporters with the Palin pick, but the joke’s on him—scoreboard! But since 77% of the women in Congress were Democrats (gee, I wonder why?), women’s representation—particularly in leadership positions—took a hit Tuesday.
The best-case scenario is that they’ll maintain 17% representation overall with a much-diminished role in committee leadership. So much for the glorious victory.
An actual women’s organization would point that out, but Siskind’s New Agenda is a home for PUMAs and SarahPAC fans who don’t shop at Walmart, so they can hardly be expected to notice.
Damn straight. I've said for a while that the PUMA faction of the Dems were always worse than the Firebaggers, because while the latter at least are intellectually consistent and want to see the Dems win and put forth progressive legislation, the former most certainly does not.
To that side, if they can't have Hillary, then we must have Sarah Palin. It's insane. Anyone who even remotely cares about women's issues would want to vote for the Dems, but putting Sarah Palin in the Oval Office just because she's a woman would be suicidal.
Likewise, seeing Nancy Pelosi drummed out of Congress like this should find Siskind and friends on the front lines. Instead, it's silence that speaks volumes.
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Or we can accept that the PUMA narrative is just more ratfuckery. That's what I think.
To expand on StarStorm's point:
Please stop calling the PUMAs dems. They are not, never have been and never will be Democrats even of the despicable Blue Dog variety.
They are, always have been and always will be rethuglican moles trying to sabotage the Democrats by using against us our willingness to accommodate just about anybody.
PUMAs are the enemy. They work for Karl Rove. Stop calling them dems.
I thought that was clear by the denotation "PUMA" and not "Democrats who want us to think we should abandon everything and run with Hillary anyway".
I certainly don't consider them Dems.
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