The He Man Woman Hater’s Club
Jim DeMint is proud of being the leader of the Tea Party wing of the U.S. Senate. He endorsed Christine O’Donnell for U.S. Senate over Mike Castle. Jim DeMint and fellow crazy conservative Tom Coburn have placed a hold on selling land near the Smithsonian for a women’s history museum. His reasoning?
And, as the New York Times’s Gail Collins revealed Sunday, the redundancy argument completely dries out under scrutiny. When asked what entities the new museum would duplicate, Coburn suggested that quilters and cowgirls were sufficient to tell the entire story of American women:
The office sent me a list of the entities in question. They include the Quilters Hall of Fame in Indiana, the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Texas and the Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens in Washington.
There also were a number of homes of famous women and some fine small collections of exhibits about a particular locality or subject. But, really, Senator Coburn’s list pretty much proved the point that this country really needs one great museum that can chart the whole, big amazing story.
C’mon ladies – there’s already a cowgirl museum. What else do we need? Christine was so upset upon reading this that she couldn’t attend any classes at Princeton. Jim DeMint, however, is not finished showing us what this “new” form of conservatism is all about.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) attempted to convince pastors that economic issues are moral issues at the Greater Freedom Rally at a church in Spartanburg, South Carolina yesterday, imploring them to help conservatives retake Congress in November.
In addition to reiterating anti-choice talking points on abortion and backing “traditional marriage,” according to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, the senator went further and “said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn’t be teaching in the classroom and he holds the same position on an unmarried woman who’s sleeping with her boyfriend — she shouldn’t be in the classroom.”
I think these science article I’ve been reading are right – Neanderthals are not extinct. Actually, a Neaderthal might be more desirable than Jim DeMint.
Tags: Jim DeMint, Republican Crazy, Tom Coburn
When asked who she most admired in the Senate, do you know who Christine O’donnell picked?
Yeah, you women already have the Molly Brown House in Denver, Julia Child’s kitchen in the Smithsonia, and the YWCA. What else do you want? I want to see a museum to Chaim Yankel Pupek.
A new museum is kind of a stupid place to make a stand for women’s representation. Instead, why not make sure women are better represented on the Board of the Smithsonian, and make sure women in history are represented in the Smithsonian’s activities?
Hint: Three out of 17 members of the Smithsonian Board are appointed by the President Pro Tem of the Senate, and three others by the Speaker of the House.
Because, anon, Phyllis Schlafly is a girl, Anita Bryant is a girl, Carly Fiorino is a girl, Sarah Palin is a girl. Any one of them might be or have been on the board of the Smithsonian. Should I take my kids to see their offices? The previous owner of my house has a piece in the Smithsonian… as a quilter. And also, we enjoyed the First Ladies exhibit.
But in this country women’s history needs a location and a focus. Most places include Sacajewea, Amelia Earhart and Susan B. Anthony, and then rest on their laurels. It’s like the days when African American history consisted of Crispus Attucks and George Washington Carver.
Besides. it’s a chance to get all that Marilyn dirt on display. 😉
Phyllis Schlafly is a girl, Anita Bryant is a girl, Carly Fiorino is a girl, Sarah Palin is a girl. Any one of them might be or have been on the board of the Smithsonian.
And what would stop those she-devils from being appointed to the board of the new women’s museum?
I’m not saying they’re “she-devils”. I’m saying that visiting their offices wouldn’t teach my kids much about women’s history. Also I’m saying that being genetically XX isn’t the same as having an interest in specifically women’s history or issues, so getting token representation on boards isn’t the same as a brick & mortar location.
“a Neaderthal might be more desirable than Jim DeMint.”
From the way you use the term as a pejorative, I think perhaps we might need a Neanderthal museum even more than a women’s museum.
“Yeah, you women already have the Molly Brown House in Denver, Julia Child’s kitchen in the Smithsonia, and the YWCA. What else do you want?”
You forgot the Clara Barton, Molly Pitcher and Joyce Kilmer rest stops along the New Jersey Turnpike!
Joyce Kilmer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Kilmer
We need this museum. 😉
I think that I shall never see
A better place to stop and pee.
You can always tell when it’s truly the crazy wing of the GOP because the usual GOP apologists aren’t on this thread defending DeMint. I’m sorry, but this is the stuff that makes Republicans completely incompetent to lead. They still can’t get the SIMPLE SHIT right — let alone complex, nuanced topics like the economy, health care, and foreign policy. They can’t see that DENYING an umarried pregnant woman or DENYING a gay person a job teaching is WRONG. This is SIMPLE stuff. If they can’t present a simple, rational argument on these social-warrior topics, then screw ’em, I don’t care what they have to say on matters of actual import.
Oops! Tough to go through life as a boy named Joyce. 🙂