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gateley

(62,683 posts)
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 05:52 PM Apr 2013

From Nancy Pelosi:


Friends --

As the first woman Speaker of the House, I know a thing or two about challenging the status quo. I'm really proud of that, and I'm proud of all the women who have made our country strong.

But the truth is, we're still a long way from fairness and equality in the workplace -- women make just 77 cents for every dollar a man makes.

Republican obstructionists continue to block progress on paycheck fairness -- tell them to stop acting on the wrong side of history:

Stand with me and women across the country and help us get to 100,000 strong for paycheck fairness >>

Equal work deserves equal pay -- and passing the Paycheck Fairness Act is the next step in the fight for equal pay.

This bill won’t see the light of day unless we hold House Republicans’ feet to the fire. Tell House Republicans it’s time to finally pass the Paycheck Fairness Act:

http://dccc.org/Equal-Pay

Thanks,

Nancy Pelosi

http://www.dccc.org/page/s/equal-pay-2013?source=em_2013.04.09_np_tn
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onehandle

(51,122 posts)
1. I still love her. I remember her photo on the cover of The Nation many years ago...
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 05:56 PM
Apr 2013

...in the kitchen of my wife's Great Aunt and Uncle.

They were good liberals and so is she.

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
4. Well,
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 06:28 PM
Apr 2013

If the country can tear itself away from the tv long enough to go and vote properly at midterms, she will be Speaker again. Right now even a lot of lefties have Chicken Little syndrome and are running around squawking that the President's out to rob the poor and elderly. He KNOWS his budget proposal is DOA, and he's even said it isn't what he really wants; why can't they recognize a chess move to break the GOP on tax issues for what it is?

Although I believe the President certainly expected and more than likely wants everyone to scream about the chained CPI, I'm appalled at how even the smarter element seems to be going genuinely nuts. If any large segment of our voters stays home midterm and pouts, we could wind up with more GOP than less, and then where would Pelosi be? Worse yet, where would we be? At the tender mercies of a gang of rapacious thugs, all because ideological purists can't stand anyone deviating at all from their own agenda. Sometimes with friends like that, who needs enemies?

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
6. Disparaging the left isnt going to help elect Democrats, if that's what you want.
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 08:06 PM
Apr 2013

In 2014, it wont be the "chicken little lefties" that you are trying to disparage that stay home. I have been there. The lefties arent afraid to speak up and they go out to support candidates, participate in voter registration drives, man the phone lines on election day, go door to door, etc. I didnt see a single lousy so-called "centrist" helping the cause. In 2014 it will be the so-called "centrists" that stay home because they have a hard time deciding whose side they are on.

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
8. No blanket disrespect intended
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 12:49 AM
Apr 2013

Believe it or not.

As someone well to the west of Kucinich, I can understand why many on the left are pitching fits right now. Unfortunately not all are as practical minded as yourself. Quite a few I know do just throw up their hands and walk away, and their furious attacks also discourage other voters from various quarters.

But if I hurt your feelings, I'm actually sorry; something I might not say often enough.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
11. Apparently I misunderstood your post.
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 08:28 AM
Apr 2013

You didnt hurt my feelings but thanks. I am sensitive to those in DU that are trying to push the left out of the party. Always bashing the left because the left wont "sit down and shut up". The left whose values are called extreme, values like believing no American children should go to bed hungry, that we should reduce defense spending, strengthen SS and Medicare, have single payer health insurance, end the intrusions into our Constitutional rights via the Patriot Act, domestic spying and indefinite detention. These are not extreme demands and accepting less on the rationalization that life could be worse is crap.

Now I will grant you that there may be some on the left that get frustrated and threaten to give up, but they are only a few and they really wont give up. I have been around a long time and am very familiar with grass roots politics and thru thick and thin, Republican and Democratic Administrations, thru wars and moving money protests, it isnt the left that stays home.

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
12. Well, then
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 03:23 PM
Apr 2013

You've done a lot to alleviate my own fears, thank you very much. Maybe I'm still too distrustful since 2000.

This last election, the voter who impressed me most was the expectant mother who stayed in line after her water broke. Now that's determination!

I might need to be a tad less sensitive, too, about criticism just or otherwise toward President Obama. When people call him a Reagan Republican, it can set me off; partly because I retired in RedNeckLand and half of these teabaggers would really shoot him if they could. I admit he's probably nowhere near as left leaning as I am, even in his heart, but it does seem he's done a far better job than a lot of people are willing to give him credit for in a very harsh environment.

Then again I try to remember that he probably doesn't mind it half as much as I do.

Rest assured I'm the last person who wants to push the left out of the party. I just don't want to see us let perfection become the enemy of excellence. I have nothing like the President's patience, but I at least imagine myself as pragmatic.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
13. IMHO the left recognizes full well that Pres Obama is better than the Republican alternatives.
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 04:10 PM
Apr 2013

However, IMHO the left sees that there is a long way to go to just undo what has happened in the Lost Bush Decade let alone the Reagan decades. Pragmatism is swell but when the ship is sinking it's time for drastic actions.

I truly like the president and his family and think it's a far change from DimSon Bush and his Stepford wife, what's her name. Which seems like enough for the Denial Bubble-Heads among us that put personality above principle. Call me extreme but I want single payer, SS cap raised, Medicare age reduced, the Patriot Act killed, etc. and I will fight tooth and nail until we get that.

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
14. If you want someone to call you extreme,
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 04:37 PM
Apr 2013

... don't look at me. I'm for all those things too. And more.

What I'm not for is holding my breath in a hissy fit when I don't get everything I want right now. And I'm not deaf; you know as well as I that some of us threaten defection or staying home or starting a 3rd party etc. All of which would be self defeating, and I'm NOT into that. Let's not follow the road to ruin; that's what we want the opposition to do.

I've only begun to write 'adoring' letters to Mikey encouraging him to start another party. It's really hard and I have to take something to settle my stomach first, but I do it for love of party and country. I know the man's a fool; I just hope he's fool enough to take the bait.

Hekate

(90,202 posts)
9. I would LOVE that, but it would take everyone getting out the vote
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 01:14 AM
Apr 2013

Including the ones wringing their hands about how betrayed they are and threatening to either stay home or vote for candidates who don't stand a snowball's chance in hell of winning even a primary election. IIRC, pretty much the same contingent didn't like Nancy Pelosi when she was Speaker, either.

Gods willing and the creeks don't rise, maybe we can actually get enough people to back away from their keyboards and vote for Democrats in 2014, whether they past the purity test or not. I sure hope so.

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