In response to attacks due to the fact that not one of the 113th House of Representatives committees chair appointments went to a woman, John Boehner made the bold move of changing his mind.
According to the Huffington Post, Boehner found his binderful of women, and after great thought and research, appointed Candace Miller to chair the House Administration Committee. It looks like Representative Miller will hold the important task of chairing the committee responsible for such tasks as "statuary and pictures," "disposition of useless executive papers," and House food services and parking. She had been looking at chairing the House Homeland Security Committee, but apparently Boehner didn't want to give the little lady more than she could handle.
I would like to let Jon Stewart take it from here:
So it goes -- another small step for Republican women.
Showing posts with label Binders full of women. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Let Me Tell You About My Headache
Not that anyone wants to know. But we've decided we're going to talk about what gives us headaches anyway.
We had a lot of headaches because we had to listen to jackasses like Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock. They were a lot like having a Jehovah's Witness for an in-law. You thought you couldn't get rid of them, and then, voila! divorce, and they were gone. And so was the headache.
There's a lot of bad stuff that we worry about, so you would have to call them worry headaches. And I for one am looking forward to telling you all about them. And I'm really glad my other friends with headaches are here, telling us what aggravates them.
Maybe we'll hear from other women with headaches along the way. If we all talk about it long and hard enough I do believe we can get some attention. You never know what men will do to get a woman to shut up, right? I'm thinking maybe they'll stop telling us what we should be doing with our bodies, for one.
Just think. It was only a few months ago. There we were, binders full of us. Being banned from the House floor for saying the word "vagina." Being ordered to have vaginal ultrasounds to keep us from having an abortion. Watching a panel full of old white men telling Congress why we shouldn't have birth control.
Look at us now. Elizabeth Warren is preparing to kick some Wall Street butt in the Senate. Neither she nor Tammy Baldwin are going to let those old white guys get away with dictating our sexual values.
Keep it up, I'm feeling better already.
We had a lot of headaches because we had to listen to jackasses like Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock. They were a lot like having a Jehovah's Witness for an in-law. You thought you couldn't get rid of them, and then, voila! divorce, and they were gone. And so was the headache.
There's a lot of bad stuff that we worry about, so you would have to call them worry headaches. And I for one am looking forward to telling you all about them. And I'm really glad my other friends with headaches are here, telling us what aggravates them.
Maybe we'll hear from other women with headaches along the way. If we all talk about it long and hard enough I do believe we can get some attention. You never know what men will do to get a woman to shut up, right? I'm thinking maybe they'll stop telling us what we should be doing with our bodies, for one.
Just think. It was only a few months ago. There we were, binders full of us. Being banned from the House floor for saying the word "vagina." Being ordered to have vaginal ultrasounds to keep us from having an abortion. Watching a panel full of old white men telling Congress why we shouldn't have birth control.
Look at us now. Elizabeth Warren is preparing to kick some Wall Street butt in the Senate. Neither she nor Tammy Baldwin are going to let those old white guys get away with dictating our sexual values.
Keep it up, I'm feeling better already.
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