Dem Rep. Accuses GOP of Sexism over Pelosi Jab

[sabra]

Source: CBS News

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On a Monday night appearance on the Charlie Rose Show, Pelosi said McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, should not have laid out his opinions on the war in a speech in London.

"Let me say this about General McChrystal, with all due respect," she said. "His recommendations to the president should go up the line of command. It shouldn't be in press conferences...The fact is I think that that's not where this debate takes place."

Following that interview, the NRCC released a statement mocking the speaker as "General Pelosi."

"Rather than listening to a four-star general's assessments on Afghanistan, General Pelosi somehow believes she is better suited to craft our country's military policy," NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain was quoted as saying. The statement continued to read, "If Nancy Pelosi's failed economic policies are any indicator of the effect she may have on Afghanistan, taxpayers can only hope McChrystal is able to put her in her place."

Wasserman Schultz questioned the nature of the NRCC's comments.

"I think the place for a woman is at the top of the House of Representatives," she told Politico. "It's evidence they long for the days when a woman's place was in the kitchen. Now a woman is third in line for the presidency... But it's not surprising, coming from a party that's 80 percent male and 100 percent white," which is the makeup of the House GOP conference.



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[sinkingfeeling]

1. The NRCC has lost its collective mind. "Nancy Pelosi's failed economic policies"? When was she a

Republican urging deregulation?

[timeforpeace]

4. Since when has she been in charge for anything?

[derby378]

2. Not necessarily sexist, but definitely condescending

The military take their ultimate orders from a civilian. And that civilian, in theory, cannot act unilaterally without support from elected assemblies of civilians - with Nancy Pelosi heading up one of those assemblies.

I don't have a history of supporting Pelosi's actions in the past, but she's improving. And she's dead on in this regard.

[No Elephants]

19. Not necessarily sexist? White male Congress critters have always spoken of

putting those who are second in line for the Presidency in their place?

Guess I missed it.

Wonder what the place for someone seccond in line for the Presidency would be.

[bertman]

3. Why is Rep. Wasserman Test responding to this. She has become the darling of the airwaves

because she is a DLC shill. She's the one who defended the Republican yahoos Ros-Lehtinen and the Diaz-Balarts from having any meaningful opposition during the recent elections.

We need some high-profile progressives speaking for the Democratic Party. Why don't they ask Rep. Grayson?

Meanwhile, I rec this thread because the Republican dipshits would say or do anything to make Pelosi look bad.

[napi21]

9. I think it was very appropriate for Debbie to respond to that

NRCC nutball. First of all she's a woman, and she's in the House.

[bertman]

16. There are a lot of progressive women Representatives in the House who could have

responded as well as, if not better than, Wasserman Test. She's DLC and does nothing for the progressive wing of the party.

[MidwestRick]

5. When did speaker Pelosi

fall into the military chain of command?

[BR_Parkway]

10. She doesn't technically, but she does get to write their paychecks

and establish the rules that the military works under

[No Elephants]

20. Expressing an opinion aboutt propriety is now being in the military chain of command?

DUers must all be ten star generals, then.

Here's a couple of questions for you:

When did The Speaker of the House lose her right to express an opinion when being interviewed?

And do you know that this board is only for Democrats?

[bigbrother05]

6. Where did she offer military advice?

She merely pointed out that the Gen should have followed the chain of command and raised his concerns within that framework. The Pukes have for years expressed the exact same sentiments when their guy was in office. Even hypocrites would be ashamed to make such a statement.

[No Elephants]

21. Those in the chain of military command do not offer advice. They give orders.

MidwestRick seems to be going the Rethugs one better on this one. Where is the pizza when we need it most?

[RedCloud]

7. Military telling us what to do. What's wrong with that picture?

[BlueIdaho]

8. "80 percent male and 100 percent white" - that's beautiful!

Let's hammer this home - the NRCC does not look like America, does not think like America, and does not act like America. It IS the old boys club.

[burning rain]

12. Good use of rhetorical overstatement there.

Rep. Joseph Cao (R-Loozyanna), a Vietnamese-American, does give the House GOP a little person-of-color chic. That feller's surely a one termer, though.

[No Elephants]

22. Oh, jeez, that wasn't overstatement. One man out of the hundred upon hundreds of white

men the opposition has put in Congress all these years?

[Plucketeer]

17. Make that "the ODD boys club!

:rofl:

[proteus_lives]

11. Rude but how is it sexist?

[katkat]

14. sexist = "put her in her place" I can just hear "kitchen and bedroom" after that n/t

[mopinko]

18. +1

exactly. they are stupid, but they are not stupid to say it in plain english. plain enough for me what they think pelosi's place is.

[No Elephants]

23. Please see Reply 19. Let me guess: You're a hetero white male.

[defendandprotect]

13. GOP = Grand Old Patriarchy

[colsohlibgal]

15. She's Correct

It was completely sexist, a more direct form of the code the wing nuts use, you needn't be a brain surgeon to decode this stuff, for example 'ACORN" = black.