Female House GOPers Silent On NRCC’s Demand That Pelosi Be Put “In Her Place”
We can’t find a single female House Republican who’s willing to take issue with the National Republican Congressional Committee’s claim that General Stanley McChrystal should put Nancy Pelosi, the first female Speaker of the House, “in her place.”
Our reporter, Amanda Erickson, contacted the offices of all 17 female House Republicans, and not one was willing to condemn the comments.
An aide to Michele Bachmann of Minnesota told us that she “can’t” comment today because she’s “busy.” A spokesperson for Virginia Foxx declined to take issue with the crack, dismissing the whole back and forth over it as a “distraction.”
Spokespeople for Sue Myrick of North Carolina and Jean Schmidt of Ohio both declined to comment. A spokesperson for Mary Fallin, the Republican co-chair of the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues, didn’t return emails or calls. Nor did a spokesperson for Senator Susan Collins.
We also asked for comment from a spokesman for former eBay CEO and California GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman. We’ll let you know if he answers. We’ll let you know if anyone answers, dammit!
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“former eBay CEO and California GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitmann. We’ll let you know if he answers.”
He?
Oh – I get it – the spokesman.
It looks they’re Republicans first, women, mothers, daughters and sisters second. It’s a shame the Repubs follow party line all the way down the road to oblivion. I’m going to miss them.
Greg
Have you seen this one? New White House strategy for calling out the press for making mis-leading or false claims. It’s a much more aggressive approach.
“All the criticism, both fair and misleading, took a toll, regularly knocking the White House off message. So a new White House strategy has emerged: rather than just giving reporters ammunition to “fact-check” Obama’s many critics, the White House decided it would become a player, issuing biting attacks on those pundits, politicians and outlets that make what the White House believes to be misleading or simply false claims, like the assertion that health-care reform would establish new “*** clinics” in schools. Obama, fresh from his vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, cheered on the effort, telling his aides he wanted to “call ‘em out.”
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1929058,00.html
Sorry, not just the press but pundits and politicians as well.
And as usual s*e*x
Meg Whitman will avoid answering you because she’s so busy trying to pretend she has actually voted in a real election before just recently. She kinka thinks she might have voted in 1984.
Greg,
Go back and ask them, and all the Republican men,as well;
Do you think that General McChrystal should put Sarah Palin in her place, for having posted her opinion about the Troop increase request? After all she does not hold any public office, and is the same gender as Speaker Pelosi. Put them on the spot. Why does the women, who is the elected Speaker of the House need to be put in her place, but the woman who quit her post, in mind term not need to be put in her place?
Try that one on them, Greg.
This is another nonstory of imagined sexism the left is trying to manufacture. It’s childish.
No one, on the other hand, has yet tried to explain how Pelosi’s comments can be squared with her previous approving citation of generals’ criticims of George Bush (e.g., her 2/20/2008 press release).
what was that i heard as a description of the current gop?????? oh gosh, what was it….OH YES, KNUCKLE DRAGGING NEANDERTHALS….that’s right, that was it. I think the last man I heard say something like that was my grandfather, and I’m not even sure he said that, at least not in front of me or my mother….good god…
Do these stupid haggs really think any woman should vote for them when they can’t even stand up to the Neanderthals in their own party. As a woman I’d have to ask myself, what can they possibly do for me? Perhaps they all have Stockholm syndrome or perhaps they are just the kind of women the GOP loves. They’re basically props to draw the women’s vote. The way that idiot McCain picked Palin as his running mate. They’re better seen and not heard. I would never vote for any Republican but, these female Republican is particularly repugnant! Go back to the kitchen ladies. Perhaps you’d feel more comfortable speaking up from that room!
quarterback~
I hate to break it to you, but if you think that a woman being offended by a man saying “put her in her place” is a leftist/liberal issue, then you are seriously in need of some estrogen intervention. Half of my family are serious conservatives, and even my conservative female family members are ticked about such an outlandish statement. Most of the women in my family hold higher positions and make more money than the men in my family, whether they are conservative or liberal, it is an insult and instead of defending or deflecting from that ridiculous choice of words, you should use your energy to advise your party of mainly white men that we are in 2009, not 1909 – perhaps if they would start to realize that, there policy proposals may be taken more seriously.
That’s pretty easy to answer, Liam.
Palin stated her opinion as a private citizen/public figure about strategy in Afghanistan. Pelosi as Speaker of the House attacked Gen. McChrystal for supposed insubordination.
Not exactly the same thing, are they?
I thought the statement by the NRCC was kind of clumsy and foolish, the way just about all such “trash talk” by party staffers are. But, it’s the NRCC’s job to do political battle with Pelosi, see? Really, stop with the crybaby routine.
And, by the way, don’t think the irony of your (Liam’s) making charges of sexism escapes anyone. It’s a real hoot.
Jenn D,
I know many conservative and Republican women. I haven’t heard any take offense. To the contrary, the prevailing sentiment is the Pelosi is a disgrace, a partisan hack, and a menace to the country.
I said above what I think about the NRCC statement. It’s just another of the daily charges the parties’ staffers trade. The only people getting all wee wee’d up about this one are the left extremists. You find a new reason to hate Republicans every day, regardless of what they do or say, so why should anyone give this one credence? Your daily sense of outrage actually has no connection to how most of the country feels about these things.
McChrystal was insubordinate, and Secretary Gates rebuked him. Speaker Pelosi was correct, and it was General McChrystal that needed to be reminded what his place is.
NOw , some of you will continue to claim that McChrystal was not actually rebuked, for speaking out of turn, but these Officers say that he was rebuked.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/07/AR2009100704056.html?nav=hcmodule
“Army officers gathered at a convention in Washington this week said senior White House officials should not have rebuked Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, for saying publicly that a scaled-back war effort would not succeed.
The hallways at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center buzzed with sympathy for McChrystal, who has said the U.S.-led effort in Afghanistan risks failure without a rapid infusion of additional forces. Obama and his advisers are now debating strategy in Afghanistan, with some officials arguing against additional deployments.
“It was definitely a hand slap,” one Army officer said of the statement last weekend by national security adviser James L. Jones, a retired Marine general, that military officials should pass advice to President Obama through their chain of command. The Army officer, like others attending the annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army, spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the politically sensitive issue.”
Notice the irony of an officer remaining anonymous because he admitted that he was not authorized to speak out about the issue.
Don’t you love when an officer violates his orders to back up a officer who violated the rules, and yet the officer lacks the guts to put his name on his statement.
Roxsteady,
In one intemperate and sexist invective-filled paragraph, you just illustrated the utter hypocrisy of the left on this subject. No elaboration necessary.
qb:
The only people getting all wee wee’d up about this…
Heh. Like that one.
Obviously, as this post shows, quarterback is full of dookie. Right wing women aren’t jumping to the GOP’s defense.
This made a lot of women mad, cause it was blatantly sexist.
What a shocker. Stop The Presses. Quarterback discovers that Republican Stepford Wives, have no thoughts, opinions, or feelings. Put your beer next to them. It will stay ice cold.
Liam,
1. I can’t believe I’m responding to you — generally a fool’s errand.
2. Your argument is a crude fallacy of appeal to authority.
3. Your argument is also completely irrelevant to the point, which was the fallacy of your original attempt to equate Pelosi and Palin.
4. You (all) still continue to ignore Pelosi’s patent hypocrisy in light of her approval of generals’ publicly criticizing George Bush, as on 2/20/2008. Was she wrong then or is she wrong now?
Tena:
This made a lot of women mad, cause it was blatantly sexist.
It would be extremely helpful if there existed a list of “Things you can say to a male politician, but are blatantly sexist when said to a (liberal) female politician”. Does such a thing exist anywhere in the bowels of liberaldom’s headquarters somewhere?
Liam – not exactly “discovers” – more like “claims”
“4. You (all) still continue to ignore Pelosi’s patent hypocrisy in light of her approval of generals’ publicly criticizing George Bush, as on 2/20/2008. Was she wrong then or is she wrong now?”
And you continue to avoid the very real truth there -= Bush was totally incompetent, his judgment could not be trusted as could nothing he said cause he lied, everytime he opened his mouth.
There’s no comparison.
Republican Stepford Wives, have no thoughts, opinions, or feelings. – Liam, demonstrating his enlightened, non-sexist attitude towards women
Greg, please also ask that nut Linda McMahon who is running for Senate in CT — and whose wrestling company repeatedly used sexed-up women as props.
PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE!
“Don’t you love when an officer violates his orders to back up a officer who violated the rules, and yet the officer lacks the guts to put his name on his statement.”
Mmm hmmm.
“sympathy for McChrystal, who has said the U.S.-led effort in Afghanistan risks failure without a rapid infusion of additional forces”
And I weep for poor McChrystal.
Tena:
“This made a lot of women mad, cause it was blatantly sexist.”
I don’t believe for a minute that you are friendly with any conservative or Republican women. Why? Because your categorical hostility against (hatred for?) all conservatives and Republicans is displayed here every day. No one could sincerely say the things you do and have any understanding of what conservatives of either *** think, let alone know any as friends. So I don’t believe you speak for anyone but the extreme left.
Your outrage is also selective and hypocritical. You all like nothing better than a good sexist put down of Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann. You think Liam is the soul of reason, and he is as sexist as they come. So spare me, please.
Liam,
Again you prove you need remedial reading education.
qb, you mean our Generals were on foreign soil in a civilian environment putting forth their options during Bush’s Presidency?
or do you mean this.
“General Casey’s comments are another reminder that the Iraq war continues to strain our armed forces and is diminishing our military readiness and come only two weeks after Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen testified before Congress that our troops are ‘significantly stressed.’
How is Casey suggesting our troops are stressed comparable to McChrystal going onto foreign soil discussing his plans for Afghanistan?
“I don’t believe for a minute that you are friendly with any conservative or Republican women. ”
A. you don’t know me or anything about my life so you are in no position to say who I do or don’t know.
B. It doesn’t matter what some anonymous supposed “female conservative friends” of yours say – you could be listening to the voices in your head.
The post, my dear, is evidence that conservative women in office are not rushing to defend this statement thus they must not like it either.
So – hmmm, facts about actual GOP women or made-up fantasies about supposed people someone personally knows?
I’m going with the facts.
Funny to think that the same folks here who are upset over this sexism also think we should leave Afghanistan and let the Taliban (if need be) be a part of the government.
Tena:
“And you continue to avoid the very real truth there -= Bush was totally incompetent, his judgment could not be trusted as could nothing he said cause he lied, everytime he opened his mouth.
There’s no comparison.”
And here we indeed come to the real truth again, as we did on the other thread. Like Pelosi, you hold to no principle at all regarding subordination to civilian authority. Your only principle is that a President whom YOU deem to be incompetent or untrustworthy forfeits constitutional authority as CIC and is justly subject to insubornation by military officers.
I wonder how far that goes? Rebellion? A military coup. Your logic leads inexorably to that conclusion, so long as YOU, Tena, believe the President is incompetent.
So Quarterback, have you figured out yet how Quiter Palin got pregnant before she was married, while she was practicing sexual abstinence.
Is she your Madonna, or is it that she was just too stupid, in her mid twenties, to realize that just saying that you are for sexual abstinence, was not real contraception, when she was fornicating?
“so long as YOU, Tena, believe the President is incompetent.”
Well, me, 78% of the United STates, about 99% of the rest of the world – so if you want to stick to the 1% crazy, fine with me. I have nothing to prove about Bush – his record speaks for itself.
And you notice, he left office the traditional way. So your fantasy is a bit late there, bucko.
Mike,
Of course, you’ve mischaracterized what Gen. McChrystal did; sjb and Freehold amply proved that here before.
But, yes, why didn’t Pelosi publicly chastise General Casey, a longstanding critic of the Iraq War for making public comments to reporters that the war was compromising our readiness? How would you differentiate that from what McChrystal said? You aren’t seriously contending that the place where he said it makes a difference, are you?
Hell!
A Friendly Conservative or Republican Woman is an oxymoron.
You know, like a cuddly Tasmanian Devil!
Phyllis Schlafly. Shudder Shudder. Water Mains freeze when she crosses over them.
Liam,
Sorry, but I think I’m done with you again for now, since you’ve lapsed into vulgar sexist pig mode again. I think we can all see who has a sick sexual fascination with Palin. Not something I want to keep having brought to mind by reading your rantings.
“Funny to think that the same folks here who are upset over this sexism also think we should leave Afghanistan and let the Taliban (if need be) be a part of the government.”
You really really really have a tenuous hold on reality.
Afghanistan isn’t the United States. The Taliban did try to take over here -= we voted them out.
What happens in Afghanistan is in no way related to statements made by supposed civilized people in First world nations. Now come on -
“Phyllis Schlafly. Shudder Shudder. Water Mains freeze when she crosses over them.”
And . . . there we go again, even before I could say good-bye to Liam again, he launches another ugly sexist salvo. Nice going.
Charlie Rose asked Speaker Pelosi the question about if McChrstal should have said what he did in public. She answered the question. She did not volunteer it.
Quarterback is busy setting up his strawman about how she never came out and chastised Casey, so that he can set fire to it.
Speaker Pelosi answered a question. Tell Quarterdeck to hug his strawman while he sets fire to it.
Shorter stupid boring jerk: “It’s ONLY sexism!”
Liam,
Whether she was askded for it or volunteered it, her denunciation is still a contradiction of her approving reference to Casey’s public criticism of Bush on Iraq.
I would say, try again, but I know another try wouldn’t help you either and would just be snarky.
The Taliban were the only ruling party in Afghanistan after the Soviets pulled out. The Taliban defeated most of the many warlords. We voted no one out. We used military might to remove them, and we hand picked Karzai and installed him.
Then The Republicans neglected Afghanistan for eight years, while they went off on their insane venture to fix Iraq.
The Republicans let Afghanistan become the mess it is today, and they also let Bin Laden escape, so they have lost all credibility on the subject.
O Phyllis Schlafly – she has the iciest kootchie in the country, I’ll bet you any amount.
Quarterdeck is now endorsing Senator Pelosi right to chastise McChrystal, and only wishes that she had also gone out of her way, even when not asked about it, to criticize other Generals.
That settles that. Quarback just endorsed Speaker Pelosi’s right to have said what she said, in answer to a question from Charlie Rose.
Watch this Quarterback Maroon twist himself in knots, trying to worm his way out of that one.
President Barack Obama will visit New Orleans next Thursday to assess progress and remaining community needs more than four years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, The White House announced today.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/10/post_36.html
And I say Yeah You Rite!
HAHAHA!
A top activist with the anti-tax Tea Party movement has had a personal brush with federal tax collectors. Jenny Beth Martin, a co-founder and national co-ordinator for the Tea Party Patriots, owed, with her husband, over half a million dollars to the IRS when the pair filed for bankruptcy last year, according to filings examined by TPMmuckraker.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/top_tea_partier_husband_owed_irs_half_a_million_do.php?ref=fpb
Shouldn’t be a surprise, but… SO f’ing funny and typical.
Women have no rights in Saudia Arabia. How come the Republicans have never offered to invade there to free the women. We know why. The Saudis and the Bushes are hand holding Oil Buddies.
The women of Iraq are far more restricted now, than they were before we invaded. I am sure those professional women really appreciate what the Republicans did for them.
“Afghanistan isn’t the United States.”
Holy ****! Are you serious?
“Quarterdeck is now endorsing Senator Pelosi right to chastise McChrystal, and only wishes that she had also gone out of her way, even when not asked about it, to criticize other Generals.”
Good grief, Liam, you really can’t follow basic logic, can you?
The problem for Pelosi isn’t that she didn’t “go out of her way” to criticize Casey, it is that “out of her way” in 2008 to APPROVE OF his criticism of Bush and the Iraq War.
“O Phyllis Schlafly – she has the iciest kootchie in the country, I’ll bet you any amount.”
Tena, you should never utter another word about sexism again.
What did general Casey say, and was it a challenge to the President’s authority. Please provide all the details, and context, so we can judge if you have a valid point or not. Also, since The Bush White House used Generals to make their case for them, was Casey disagreeing with them, or actually saying what they wanted him to say.
Just you yammering on and on about why did she do this, and not do this, sheds no light on the subject.
Well Well Well.
Turns out, in January of 2007 General Casey, while in Charge in Iraq, said that he thought that sending more troops was the wrong thing to do. President Bush promptly replaced him.
Looks like President Bush did not want his General in charge of operations to be opposing him, in public either.
To be consistent, then no one should object if President Obama replaces McChrystal, just like President Bush replaced Casey.
“Tena, you should never utter another word about sexism again.”
roflmao – dude, I’m a woman. It’s a tad difficult to be sexist toward females when one is female. You don’t understand much, do you?
I posted that strictly to get your attention. LOL!!!
“The Afghan women who risked their lives to go to the polls this summer are not afraid of much. But one thing we need not doubt is their terror at the notion that America might abandon Afghanistan and return them to the hands of the Taliban. Eviction from school and work at the least, rape and murder at the worst, were the fate of Afghanistan’s women under that backward Islamist regime.”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/10/when_will_feminists_stand_up_f.asp
Liam,
Nice to see you admit you were spouting off all the time without even knowing the first fact you were talking about.
You might also want to look up where Casey went after being replaced, and his comments to reporters 2/19/2008, and Pelosi’s press release about it the next day. It really isn’t my job to do your research. I’m sure you can find it.
Pelosi and Democrats were fine with Casey and others undermining Bush. She is a hypocrite.
Tena,
Yes, I know perfectly well you are a woman. Doesn’t change a thing. Just proves my point. The “offense” you take a sexist language is purely a partisan phenomenon.
“The “offense” you take a sexist language is purely a partisan phenomenon.”
Do not attempt to define my feelings. You are not god, dude. You have no clue about me -
“Do not attempt to define my feelings. You are not god, dude.”
Yes, I know, you believe only you are omniscient. Only you know how others feel.
>>>The “offense” you take a sexist language is purely a partisan phenomenon.<<<
Well there ya have it.
Admission that only the left understands that it is wrong to be sexist, racist, etc.
And therein lies the problem.
Thank you qb for utterly exposing the truth about your party of terrorists.
Bush replaced Casey for speaking out against the proposed surge.
President Obama has every right to do the same thing, when McChrystal speaks out of turn.
Case closed. The Republicans did not demand that Bush listen to Casey. They remained silent, when Bush replaced him, for having spoken out. To late for the Republicans to now flip flop, just because it is a Democrat in the White House.
Just like the silence of the DNC women and NOW when it comes to the child rapists of hollywierd Polanski and his big DNC donating supporters.
hopefully someone will put pelosi the disgrace to the name women in her place!
There are countess success stories of unheralded federal workers making a big difference in the lives of Americans.
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once again the DNC chooses to ignore the horrid treatment of women in the ME let alone afghan. nothing new they did the same thing to the women of Iraq.
You guys are as pathetic as ever.
Ethan,
I will make an exception to my rule about you just to say, learn to read, son. You are making a fool of yourself.
Liam,
You really are too much. I once again demolished your position, and you respond by asserting a different point. I’ve seen no one question Obama’s right to replace any general he wants. If he is stupid enough to replace McChrystal, more power to him.
It doesn’t change the fact that Pelosi and you are hypocrites for attacking McChrystal. It also doesn’t change the fact that, as sbj and Freehold repeatedly proved, your criticism of McChrystal is pure nonsense to begin with.
Congrats for keeping you perfect record of losing arguments.