High Profiles: Pelosi and Palin
The two feistiest figures in politics today are doing it without a Y chromosome.
On the PBS News Hour, the Speaker of the House evoked that old Feminist slogan to sell cigarettes, “You’ve come a long way, baby” as an energized Nancy Pelosi took a victory lap on health care.
Meanwhile, in the era when a woman couldn’t make it to the White House, Sarah Palin is one of the few Republicans actually winning anything, her latest triumph a million-dollar-an-episode contract for a reality show on the Discovery Channel.
During the health care campaign, the President was making the speeches, but Pelosi was in the trenches fighting for every vote and now is offering no apologies.
“Bipartisanship,” she tells Jim Lehrer, “is not more important than a little child who is sick, being deprived of coverage because he has a preexisting condition. It’s not more important that…just being a woman is no longer a preexisting medical condition, that if you lose your job, you lose your insurance, that, if you want to start a business…or change jobs, you’re not job-locked, that insurance companies can…increase your rates, and you’re at their mercy.”
On the other side of the ideological divide, Palin has come a long way from the knowledge-deprived Vice-Presidential candidate and is now, on a Facebook page, targeting by name 20 Democrats, vowing that in November “we’re going to print pink slips for members of Congress as fast as they’ve been printing money,” even as she has to rebut charges of inciting violence against health care supporters.
As much as Pelosi and Palin may rub those who disagree with them the wrong way, together they exemplify how much the American political landscape has changed in half a century since a young John F. Kennedy wrote “Profiles in Courage” and failed to include even one woman.
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6 Responses to “High Profiles: Pelosi and Palin”
I love how HC insurance reform was passed, right over the heads of squawking, klaxoning tea partiers, because of the fierce commitment of Pelosi, who, in essence, is the polar opposite of Palin in everything but sex. Of course, there are many freepers who would here make a joke about Pelosi looking like a man. But freepers are peasants and we all hate and pity them.
Of course, Pelosi actually deserve her influence and power, while Palin got her position for the same reason a whole bunch of black characters started showing up in TV shows and movies in the 70s – strictly out of demographic concerns and pandering. Pelosi represents women's advancement via meritocracy, Palin is actually the antithesis of it.
“doing it without a Y chromosome”
Ann Coulter, pee-cee v i c t i m …
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Disgusting, anti-democratic moron wants to spread filth at college. A few thousand people decide she doesn't meet their standards. A bunch of right-wing contrarians decide to protest the protesters. The college decides to terminate the speech, fearing protesters on both sides could come to blows.
A bunch of useless useless useless right-wing morons and gutterlickers decide this is proof Canada hates democracy and the *American* definition of free speech, and portray Coulter as the victim of something soemthing grumble muslims.
I end up hating wingnuts and Ann Coutler even more. All is well with the world.
DLS, shame on you fro bringing up that retardation here, and shame on you for failing to realize immediately that my version of events is not only based on the nuanced truth, but also is fair and meritorious. The college decided it couldn't handle the mutual anger – the anti-Coulter protesters did not threaten violence in particular. Also, Canada believes hate speech does not fall under free speech – if Americans find that distasteful, they can stay in the US and not export their sewage-laden wingnut scum.
Next time you want to have an opinion about something like this, first check with someone who knows their stuff. Find the nearest left-winger.
Anything else I can clear up, or shall we stop this sidetrack and go on talking about *actual women* in politics?
[chortle] Into the livewell…
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“The two feistiest figures in politics today are doing it without a Y chromosome.”
Tautological statement. Nobody would ever describe someone with a Y chromosome with the word “feisty”. The only Y-chromosome-carrying people who would be described by “baby” are people aged less than a year. You know, babies.