Some people have nothing else to do...Pass the popcorn...
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First term Congresswoman Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY20), in a highly-vulnerable district in New York’s Hudson Valley, is being attacked, not for her politics, not for her stand against the Iraq war, not for the earmarks she’s bringing home including money for rural broadband development.
First term Congresswoman Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY20), in a highly-vulnerable district in New York’s Hudson Valley, is being attacked, not for her politics, not for her stand against the Iraq war, not for the earmarks she’s bringing home including money for rural broadband development.
Nope…
She’s being attacked because she and her husband have conceived a child.
The Glenn Falls Post Star (Letters to the Editor)
“There are many occupations suitable for women and their physical attributes. Carrying a weapon while serving in the Armed Forces and firefighting are not suitable lines of work for women to prove that they are physically equal to men.
How many male police officers feel comfortable with a 100 pound female backup?
And now, I have to add serving in the U.S. House and Senate as an occupation that may not be suitable for women.
Ms. Gillibrand’s current pregnancy makes a strong case for my opinion. Ms. Gillibrand was elected to serve her constituency, and while she is away from her elected office she cannot perform those duties. The taxpayers who were duped into voting for her will have to pay for her medical benefits. Yes, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer, Ms. Gillibrand receives excellent health benefits, courtesy of her constituents. We will be without representation in Congress for a time leading up to and following the child’s birth. There will be times when she and the new baby will visit doctors.
Ms. Gillibrand’s current pregnancy makes a strong case for my opinion. Ms. Gillibrand was elected to serve her constituency, and while she is away from her elected office she cannot perform those duties. The taxpayers who were duped into voting for her will have to pay for her medical benefits. Yes, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer, Ms. Gillibrand receives excellent health benefits, courtesy of her constituents. We will be without representation in Congress for a time leading up to and following the child’s birth. There will be times when she and the new baby will visit doctors.
You can add those days to the total that she will not be serving her constituents.
The current base salary (2006) for members of the House and Senate is $165,200 per year. I wonder if Ms. Gillibrand will do the right thing and reimburse the U.S. Treasury in the amount of $452.60, her daily salary, for each day that she is unable to perform her elected duties. For some reason, I doubt it.
RON BLACHUT
Queensbury”
4 comments:
First of all, not very many women weigh only 100 lbs. Second of all, it's not the size that counts. Who invented Kung Fu, Judo, Karate, and a bunch of other things--short, trim Asian men who are certainly not big thugs. Third, my owner knows how to kick ass. There's always the element of surprise. No one would expect that Mama knows how to kick ass. Not every thug would expect that a female cop would know how to kick ass either. Fourth, I'd take a trained female cop packing heat over a gangbanger who doesn't know how to shoot straight any day of the week.
As far as the Congresswoman goes, where the hell did the "family values" go, out the window with all of their other 'morals'?
By the way, what does that jackass think about all of the other women who work for cities, states, and at the federal level? That knucklehead forgot about all teachers and school workers, who are also paid by tax dollars. Should no teachers ever have any babies? Who would ever want to be a teacher? Lots of them teach summer school so no, timing a baby won't work either.
Let's just cancel all schools and let the kids run loose.
Anybody wanna bet this idiot is also anti-abortion!?
Kittybowtie:
I think that the dude got women issues. He must have forgotten how he was born...
The cats on a roll.
Now this article was to get voters against her to replace her with a Republican. Now just a little thought as to what's happening with our Law Makers. Johnson was out with brain injury, Demenagee or what ever his name is has debenture and other Republican law makers have spent years out of office while ill. The lady is only having a baby.
I emailed a letter to the editor of that paper and asked if this policy was only for Democratic Law Makers and what would be said if a Republican Law Makers was having a baby. Oh and those guys who got ill and spent years out of office while holding their job. Yes Mr. Kitty your right about those Republican Christian Values makes you wonder what they really are. Satan's working over time with the GOP.
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