Showing posts with label Dems winning culture wars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dems winning culture wars. Show all posts

Friday, February 17, 2012

What's Wrong With This Picture?


That's right: where are the women at the table?

Yesterday, House Rethuglicans ran a silly political hearing for the purpose of fanning their transparently phony "war on religion" campaign against the Obama Administration. They failed miserably. It became clear that the hearing was a PR disaster for the Rethugs when they didn't have a single woman appear on the panel to discuss women's reproductive rights. In fact, they denied Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke an opportunity to testify.

The public is overwhelmingly in favor of women's access to contraceptives, and the more the Rethugs fight this particular battle in their Culture War, the bigger the losers they'll be, even with the women in their own party.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

On The Culture War Front

On this morning's "Up With Chris Hayes," Hayes made a good case why progressives should be encouraged about the events of the past week or so. From the Court's overturning of Prop 8 in California, to the victory of Planned Parenthood in the Komen foul up, to the latest kerfuffle over allowing birth control coverage by Catholic institutions, Hayes argues persuasively that the general public is overwhelmingly with progressives on each of these issues -- and the Rethuglicans are painting themselves into an extremist corner in opposition. Watch.

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