Women slowly making difference in Congress
By Casey Capachi, Washington Post
As the fiscal impasse began to show signs of breaking Wednesday on Capitol Hill, one group may have emerged as a voice of reason all along: female lawmakers.
“I know my colleagues are tired of hearing about the women in the Senate,” Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said with a smile on Wednesday, before continuing to give “kudos” on the Senate floor to those involved in the bipartisan proposal to end the shutdown and temporarily raise the debt ceiling to avoid default.
Six of the fourteen senators behind the compromise that the House approved Wednesday night are women.
“In my experience, women are much more willing to sit down together, build consensus and try to get to ‘yes’ without really clobbering the other side and leaving them bloody,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., in an interview with PostTV’s “InPlay” on Tuesday.
Wasserman Schultz, who is also chair of the Democratic National Committee, said that even though the end result of the budget debate remains “elusive,” one thing has become clear.
“What I think the issue is is that we don’t have enough women in positions of authority to actually make that move and negotiate,” said she said. “That’s why if we get more women elected, more women will be able to move up and be in that position of power.”
Nancy Pelosi(senile), Debbie Wasserman Schultz(deranged), Elizabeth Warren(fraud), yep, they’re all a huge improvement over the other lunatics running the government. . . let’s just forget Washington DC and try running our own lives for a change. I’m dead certain we can do a better job without their help.
Hillary 2016!
So why are you so looking forward to having another criminal in the Whitehouse?
Why are you looking for leaders in these people at all?
Baaaah, baaaaah. Are you such sheep that you need to follow people who think they are superior to you? Who only want power? They don’t care about bettering your life. They only care about bettering theirs.
Save yourselves.
Men got us into the shutdown, women got us out.(well, sans Michelle Bachmann)
That is exactly why I believe we truly need a female president.
And I make that statement with the belief that a woman doesn’t have the ego and machismo that seems to accompany so many people attached to testicles, thereby leaving the mind MUCH clearer for making hard and important decisions.
I’m not so sure Hillary doesn’t have those parts.
‘Hillary has balls’
What an intelligent analysis of a politician.
A+
Nice try. Our problem is that we are electing lawyers to run our government. This has nothing to do with gender.
Nancy Pelosi(senile), Debbie Wasserman Schultz(deranged), Elizabeth Warren(fraud), yep.
These are the types of people liberals look up to, embarrassing.
The Democratic party, the liberal party that destroyed America. There is a legacy to be proud of.
Democracy is a joke in this country. If everything is so democratic, odds state half the people elected will be female, 10%-20% black, so many Hispanics, e ct……
Perry, I don’t think it is democracy that is the joke. I think what the joke is is that the majority of Americans DON’T participate in our democracy, yet LOVE to complain about it!
And CJ, thanks for the comic relief!