It might be shocking to discover that Republican women in the House of Representatives come out statistically more right wing than Republican men in the House, on average.
A National Journal study shows that Republican women in the 111th Congress were a more conservative bloc than the men, and the most ever in modern Congressional history!
The most conservative women, among the top 50 most conservative include Jean Schmidt of Ohio, who just lost her seat in the Ohio primary; Michele Bachmann, who lost out in her quest for the GOP Presidential nomination; Mary Fallin of Oklahoma; Virginia Foxx of North Carolina; Sue Myrick of North Carolina; Lynn Jenkins of Kansas; and Kay Granger of Texas.
Overall, the Republican women voted more conservatively tnan 80 percent of the entire House of Representatives.
One other female representative also continues to be right up there in pride of being very conservative–Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee–who has had the ranking overall in recent years of being the most right wing, although dethroned by Jean Schmidt in 2010.
It is shocking to see how these and other GOP women stand by as women’s rights are being challenged and restricted. It is as if they are not women at all, but aliens from outer space!
Marsha Blackburn Voted FOR:
Omnibus Appropriations, Special Education, Global AIDS Initiative, Job Training, Unemployment Benefits, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations, Agriculture Appropriations, FY2004 Foreign Operations Appropriations, U.S.-Singapore Trade, U.S.-Chile Trade, Supplemental Spending for Iraq & Afghanistan, Flood Insurance Reauthorization , Prescription Drug Benefit, Child Nutrition Programs, Surface Transportation, Job Training and Worker Services, Agriculture Appropriations, Foreign Aid, Debt Limit Increase, Fiscal 2005 Omnibus Appropriations, Vocational/Technical Training, Supplemental Appropriations, UN “Reforms.†Patriot Act Reauthorization, CAFTA, Katrina Hurricane-relief Appropriations, Head Start Funding, Line-item Rescission, Oman Trade Agreement, Military Tribunals, Electronic Surveillance, Head Start Funding, COPS Funding, Funding the REAL ID Act (National ID), Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, Thought Crimes “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, Peru Free Trade Agreement, Economic Stimulus, Farm Bill (Veto Override), Warrantless Searches, Employee Verification Program, Body Imaging Screening, Patriot Act extension., Supplemental Appropriations, Patriot Act Extension.
Marsha Blackburn Voted AGAINST:
Ban on UN Contributions, eliminate Millennium Challenge Account, WTO Withdrawal, UN Dues Decrease, Defunding the NAIS, Iran Military Operations defunding Iraq Troop Withdrawal, congress authorization of Iran Military Operations, Withdrawing U.S. Soldiers from Afghanistan, Libya Troop Withdrawal.
Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
See her “blatantly unconstitutional†votes at :
http://mickeywhite.blogspot.com/2009/09/tn-congressman-marsha-blackburn-votes.html
Mickey
Hello Professor:
All Good Citizens of the United States need to understand and apply the lesson that “Obedience To The LAWâ€, does not mean “Submission To Tyranny.â€
With this thought I give you the example of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born July 11, 1938), who is a historian of early America and the history of women and a university professor at Harvard University, and is well noted for the quote, “Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History.â€
This should be well noted by all sane, logical, and critical thinking women across the United States this election year. Dare to rise up and make the statement that as women, you are not going to tolerate the tyranny submission, being relegated to a “Second Class†stratification that is the political platform propagated by the extreme element in control of the Republican Party today.
While I understand and am similarly perplexed by these women’s votes, I’m troubled by your last comment equating these women to aliens. First, we will never be able to build thoughtful dialogue between them and ‘us’ if we demonized (or in this case alienize) the other side; by allowing ourselves to fall into an ideological trap we restrict ourselves from understanding them as a means to construct positive compromise with them.
Second, all women have been subjected to second class status regardless of their views. To now subject them to those names just because they don’t agree with the way you view reality is to try and force them back into that second class. By refusing to acknowledge their views as legitimate and then to deem them as unworthy of humanity because of it is just as bad as silencing them because they are women.
Just because their views and thoughts are alien to you does not give you the right to treat them as aliens, but instead is an opportunity for you to try to understand where they come from.
I am sorry that you feel the way you do, since the comment about them being “aliens” is facetious, not to be taken literally, or that seriously.
I am glad you share with me shock that the Republican Congresswomen have such views as they do.
All I am trying to say is that it is hard to understand why they have such “backward” views regarding their gender.
In any case, thanks for writing!