Associated Press
Liz Cheney appeared on Fox News yesterday, and said she's "fed up" and "at the end of [her] rope" when it comes to Democratic talk of a Republican "war on women."
"It's completely condescending and really offensive as a woman," Liz Cheney said. "The Democrats are sort of sidelining women on to these issues. Frankly, we've worked for decades and decades to become equal, it looks to me like the Democratic Party, frankly, is the party trying to take us backwards."
I've read that quote a few times, trying to make sense of it. I seem to have misplaced my far-right decoder ring again, so I'm afraid Cheney's complaints seem a little incoherent.
Consider the proposals we've seen from Republican officials this year: restricting contraception; cutting off Planned Parenthood; requiring state-mandated, medically-unnecessary transvaginal ultrasounds; forcing physicians to lie to patients about abortion and breast cancer; fighting equal-pay laws; and delaying the Violence Against Women Act. When it came time for House Republicans to pay for lower student loan interest rates, GOP officials decided to get the funding by cutting access to breast cancer and cervical cancer screenings.
The Republican Party's 2012 platform calls for a constitution amendment that would ban all abortions. A Republican congressman recently compared access to birth control to 9/11 and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The Republican Party's vice presidential nominee co-sponsored a bill to redefine "rape."
The Republican Party's U.S. Senate nominee in Missouri believes a woman cut "shut that whole thing down" if impregnated through a "legitimate rape," while Republican Party's U.S. Senate nominee in Pennsylvania believes a rape pregnancy and out-of-wedlock pregnancy are "similar."
But in Liz Cheney's mind, it's Democrats who are being "condescending" and "offensive" towards women, and it's Democrats who are "trying to take us backwards."
If there's a reasonable explanation for this line of thought, I'm eager to hear it.
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So Liz does not have to worry about pregnancy or her children getting pregnant. She can afford cancer screenings, her medications and has no equal pay worries. She is as in touch as Ann Romney.
She is the definitive c-word person .
Wins hands down in any contest .
The lack of compassion for her fellow women puts her DNA in question
Didn't you know? It's OPPOSITE DAY! Down is up, White is black, hot is cold.
Welcome to the bizarrely perverse creation of whoever it was who told Ron Suskind that "We create the reality," so that the rest of us are not BURDENED with having to live in what was previously called the reality-based universe.
Bizarro World. Built on repetition. Did I mention it is built on repetition? Pete and Repeat were in a boat, Pete fell out, who was left?
The Republicans live in Bizarro-land where everything is the opposite of what is true.
Nope, it's a stupid mind trick from her father, Vader. The Political actor must always measure which words have the highest fidelity to the truths they want their followers to believe in.
People ought to say what they believe?
Such a notion to their way of thinking is both self indulgent and self defeating.
Whoops, Mike said it first.
Her comments are completely condescending and really offensive to me as a rational, clear thinking US citizen.
Yes, but the Republicans only need a majority.
Coherency and Cheney have become just one of the many oxymorons in the Republican Part in the last few years. It's almost as famous as when a Politician says "Trust Me". Because we know they never lie!
But this shouldn't come as a surprise. Because it is the Republican Platform. To place the blame for everything that goes wrong, offensive, demeaning, degrading and morally questionable. Squarely on the shoulders of the Communist-Marxist-Fascist-Socialist Democratic Party. Because you know those Secular Democrats are the root of all evil. And have to be stopped at all cost. That and they are so totally not like us and un-American!
Sigh. When will the GOP stop listening to those voices in their head and start paying attention to the real world?
The only explanation for this line of thinking is that Liz Cheney is just like her dad - remember "waterboarding is not torture"?
Liz is actually a Stepford woman and needs nothing. Most of the GOP women are Stepford women - it's just the rest of US that haven't figured it out yet.
What I really want to hear is conservative women stating that they are anti-abortion. This is part of the puzzle, and I think it's why the laws have changed in the red states: Republican women want abortion outlawed. I'd like to hear it from them. I don't personally understand it, and without hearing the opinion in women's own words, I keep thinking they've been silenced, or worse, that they do as their husbands say. Of course, I'd also like them to say what will replace Planned Parenthood for women who have no health care.
You can forget about logic . Just ask the Christian Taliban to tell you exactly what freedoms they have lost and then have them define socialism and tell you exactly what Obama is doing that makes him a socialist.
They all end up sounding like Kevin James on Chris Matthews
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1wSZBTAXRs&feature=fvwrel
I'm sure Vidkun Quisling was "fed up" with all the things the Allies were saying about the Germans.
Ms. Cheney is a poor apologist and an inept LIAR like most if not all of the GOP/TP. She makes vague claims of how the Democrats are "sort of sidelining women on these issues". Really, Liz? How are they doing that? And how are the Dems trying to make women less equal? This is the party of the president who signed the Lily Ledbetter act, you know, the one that gives equal pay to women? It was the Republicans who tried to kill that. The Dems trust women to make decisions for themselves. The GOP/TP have decided that a bunch of old white men who know nothing about female anatomy should be able to force women to do what those men want.
Liz, your remarks offend me as a woman. I'm sorry that someone who also has two x chromosomes can sink so low.
A reasonable explanation for this remark? I'll give you one for pretty much every noxious emanation that comes from her piehole: sociopathy has a strong genetic component.
She thinks that if she lies enough that people will believe her. I wonder where she got that idea.
It would have to meet the standard of thought first before it could be explained as a line of thought, and she hasn't crested that hill yet.
Liz Cheney is a freakin joke!
Why does Liz Cheney get to be on television? It's a serious question.
WHO CARES about the Spawn of Evil's two cents? "At the end of her rope" is good imagery in regards to Liz Cheney. Fox News must be scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Men and women are not equal. What world is Liz Cheney living in? Gays and Straights are not equal. White and different color skin is not equal. Poor and rich are not equal. For a society that spouts equality and freedom The US is one of the less free and unequal nations in the world. Liz Cheney is a spoil little rich girl who has no understanding how Americans really live. She is disconnected from society. America is a great place if your rich white and straight.
Liz Cheney....... it takes a special kind of logic to be this willfully bass ackwards
The Republican Party has to think that he average American is totally ignorant of everything that is going on in current events. I think it's a risky strategy believing you can fool all the people all the time.
I think Liz was entirely clear in her meaning. "...it looks to me like the Democratic Party, frankly, is the party trying to take us backwards."
My GOP decoder ring tells me that she means: "We have worked so hard to take away all these rights from women, and those darned Democrats want to take us backward to the time when women had more rights, and were even starting to get all optimistic about having equal rights. They want to take us backward to that awful time as fast as possible and we need to hold onto our gains on the repression front."
If you want an explanation of this line of thought, read Harry Frankfurt's On Bull@!$%#. Short version: she doesn't care whether what she's saying is true or not, only that it advances the narrative she's trying to sell.
Redshift, I totally agree with you. It's the only explanation that is logical.
Those on the right have little or no use for objective reality.
She should go hunting sometime with her father.
Translation: Republicans have worked for over 35 years eroding abortion rights and access to family planning services (other than religiously affiliated ones), and Democrats are trying to take us back to those horrid days of the sexual revolution when you could get an abortion whenever you wanted just for the heck of it
Strangely enough, abortion is still legal, for all women, and yet the recent debate is focused on "how much would you limit it?" as if that's an inevitability. Yes, republicans see the democratic agenda as a step backwards, because they have gained SO FREAKING MUCH, and most of us have sat back and watched it happen instead of demanding that state governments as well as the feds stay OUT of a woman's medical decisions
This is the same woman who believes her father was the greatest VPOTUS of all time and also believes Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president than Barack Obama and Joe Biden combined.
She has zero credibility. ZERO.
hey rachel, i found this in the blogosphere it should be mentioned as possible. Apparently Ryan is just as nasty as the others.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-slansky-/paul-ryan-said-something-_b_1832377.html