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And now childlessness is an issue

Now that Grandma Nancy’s going to clean the house and take care of the children,
the Dems are insisting that women aren’t qualified to hold office if they don’t have children: Read about it from Darleen, who lets it rip (language not suitable for work):
Barbara Boxer – Insufferable Bitch*

Newsbusters has the details, and how the media has reacted:

In fact, few of the dozens of stories of Rice’s appearance before the committee even mentioned Boxer’s foolish attack.

I woudln’t call it foolish, but I won’t post in this blog the words I have in mind.

Hot Air has video.

I’ve said it before and I’ll continue saying that women and minorities who do not toe the Liberal line are insulted, mocked, derided and dismissed, no matter what.

Update
The NY Post:

Breathtaking.

Simply breathtaking.

We scarcely know where to begin.

The junior senator from California ap parently believes that an accom plished, seasoned diplomat, a renowned scholar and an adviser to two presidents like Condoleezza Rice is not fully qualified to make policy at the highest levels of the American government because she is a single, childless woman.

It’s hard to imagine the firestorm that similar comments would have ignited, coming from a Republican to a Democrat, or from a man to a woman, in the United States Senate. (Surely the Associated Press would have put the observation a bit higher than the 18th paragraph of a routine dispatch from Washington.)

But put that aside.

The vapidity – the sheer mindlessness – of Sen. Boxer’s assertion makes it clear that the next two years are going to be a time of bitterness and rancor, marked by pettiness of spirit and political self-indulgence of a sort not seen in America for a very long time.
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But even to suggest that Condoleezza Rice is not fit to serve her country because she is childless is beyond bizarre.

It is perverse.

Update 2 The more I think about this, coming from a Senator who

does not support restrictions on the availability of abortion, such as late term (“partial-birth”) abortion procedures, and parental notification requirements

the angrier I get.
When I read this story my first thought was: “only super-evangelical freakshows like the Jim Phelps crew turn on a woman for not having children…”

Boxer’s Low Blow With Condi (Video)

Update 3: Tuna
Pelosi Lied, American Samoans Cried.
More from Powerline (h/t Larwyn)

Update, 13 January, The sad, sad state of Barbara Boxer -which Obi’s Sister filed under “Somebody needs to go back to Charm School”

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  1. I caught this part on CSPAN late last night:

    Condi – the Eagle Eyed NAILS BOXER on her little sign:

    I still hope that someone will capture this Condi smackdown of Sen Boxer yesterday.

    In the hearings, Boxer held up a statement of Condi’s on a placard and continues with
    her lengthy spiel (went to Biden School) but Condi does not let it slide – she says “my eyes are NOT the best, so may I ask the date of that statement you had on your sign? ”

    Boxer has to stammer out that it is from “the end of 2005”. Condi knew exactly when she made the statement and replied “That was from OCTOBER 2005! That was months before the bombing destruction of the Shia mosque in FEBRUARY 2006! That is when the situation changed in Iraq”
    The parts of the quotes that I have bolded are accurate. The unbolded are paraphrased
    as I am a terrible typist and didn’t begin to try to record until it ended. Really hope
    someone will get the clip.

    Now, I wonder what would have been the reaction if Condi had replied:
    “Yes, Senator Boxer, I am very sad that I do not have children. But years ago, when I was young and foolish, I aborted a child. The operation left me sterile. I’m sure that is why I have never married…….

    The pretzeled logic of the LEFT EXPOSES itself everday. They are after the “single women” & “single mothers” votes. Hope they keep this ‘mommy meme” up – throw single women back to R column.

  3. Boxer and Pelosi are the dem congress icebergs.

    What is visible and heard are only 10% of the danger and dysfunction.

    Have you heard any dem outrage at Boxer or Pelosi?

    Does party loyalty trump decency?

    Sure it does- think Southern Democrats that blocked civil rights legislation for decades.

    Plus ca change, plus ca reste la meme.

  4. Please dont feel too sorry for Condi–i think she can defend herself
    Certainly can, but the issue is not “feeling to sorry” for anyone. The issue is that the very women who are doing the outmost to reduce the birth rate are the women deriding those who don’t have children – after decades of Liberals telling women that they don’t need to be mothers.

    Does party loyalty trump decency?
    Hmm… let me think…
    Robert Byrd…
    Ted Kennedy…
    I say, yes.

  8. What barbara boxer said was fact, As a matter of fact I bet Condoleezza Rice never put her life on the line to fight a war that she had no choice in. Oh and hey if everyone is so for this war then go join, no ones stopping you, but don’t commit our men and women so freely if your not willing to do the same.