Women Will Decide 2012

The ideological assault against programs that benefit women in House GOP spending bills and similar attacks from many GOP governors will give a powerful boost to Democrats in 2012. Today a diversity of women's groups are contacting me, and their members and supporters, expressing alarm about these assaults. The major media has largely ignored these concerns, but they are widespread, dramatic and mobilizing women.

Republicans face the real possibility that 2012 will bring them not a gender gap, but a gender deluge...

The House GOP spending attacks escalate an assault on programs important to women that Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, describes as "catastrophic."

A short list of programs under GOP attack include those helping women with parental leave, cancer screening, HIV testing, job training, supporting moms and babies, aging, nursing care, wage theft, fair pay and countless others that threaten women at all economic levels...

It is dangerous politics for the GOP to be so hostile to the interests of a majority of voters and so trapped by an ideology that is alien to a great movement of our times: fairness in pay for women and all workers...

The new Newsweek has emerged with an important cover story about "The Hillary Doctrine" that brilliantly describes how Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is advancing the cause of women and girls to promote global human rights and American security interests...

A majority of voters in 2012 will be women. If Republicans continue to disrespect their interests, the GOP will face a deluge of female voters turning to Democrats.

Read more at The Hill.

 

Comments

[MistyCG]

08:45 PM on 03/27/2011

Thank god Women make up over half the US population.

[Querent]

02:52 AM on 03/27/2011

Unfortunately, a lot of women see themselves as fundamentalists first, and women second.

[MistyCG]

08:47 PM on 03/27/2011

Maybe the Bachmann crowd, but for those who do believe in a woman's right to choose, fair pay in workforce, and everything else, we will choose what is within our best interests.

[Allen Reed Jensen]

09:10 PM on 03/25/2011

Darn that 19th Amendment!

[Allen Reed Jensen]

10:44 PM on 03/25/2011

Just for the record I am mostly being sarcastic, mostly.

[forestnfama]

05:17 AM on 03/22/2011

I only wish this was true but from recent past we have seen the woman hating GOP get elected after the worse assault on the middle class in American history. There are too many religious woman who would vote against their own interest. Fearful and pious.....

[isb782]

04:57 AM on 03/13/2011

I agree because as a woman I could never vote with the party who thinks very little of me as a person.

[European1919]

07:26 AM on 03/09/2011

"A short list of programs under GOP attack include those helping women with parental leave, cancer screening, HIV testing, job training, supporting moms and babies, aging, nursing care, wage theft," - hold it right there. You want to help women with wage theft? Whose wages do you want to help them steal? Not mine I hope.