John Boehner’s Miracle Solution To Mask GOP’s War On Women? Powerpuff Girls.
Speaker John Boehner and his merry band of mostly white mostly Christian and overwhelmingly mostly men on the Republican side of the aisle actually believe putting an animated GIF of the Powerpuff Girls atop a set of anti-women, anti-family policies will solve their disastrous record on women’s rights.Â
In the U.S. House of Representatives there are 435 seats. On the Republican side of the aisle sit (when they actually bother to be in session) 234 Republican Congressmen and Congresswomen and 199 Democratic Congressmen and Congresswomen. On the GOP side, there are 19 Republican Congresswomen. On the other side, there are 60 Democratic Congresswomen. Despite the fact that the GOP has the majority in the House, there are more than three times as many women on the left as on the right.
That in itself should be a huge red flag (pun intended) for Americans, but it’s largely an ignored and accepted fact.
Another accepted fact: the GOP is virulently anti-women, and despite their claims to the contrary, their policies are virulently anti-family as well.
This afternoon, Speaker Boehner (or one of his interns) took to Twitter and posted this misleading tweet:
RT @HouseGOP: 3 things House Republicans are doing for women (and all Americans) → http://t.co/gCTNssqDFp
— Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) July 10, 2014
The link leads to the House GOP’s website, paid for with your tax dollars, and a list of the three things the GOP would like you to believe they are “doing for women.”
(For a laugh, take a look at all the responses to Boehner’s tweet. The American people aren’t fooled.)
Adorned atop the blog post is an animated GIF of the Powerpuff Girls.Â
Now, they may be fierce, but the Powerpuff Girls are as invented a fiction as are John Boehner’s claims that he and his Republican Congressmen and Congresswomen are doing anything to help women — or the American people.
Let’s take a quick look at the lies Boehner and there House GOP just told the American people.
Boehner claims that Obamacare’s “Employer Mandate, which requires businesses to cover the insurance of all employees who work at least 30 hours a week, is leading many companies to slash workers’ hours to avoid paying outrageous Obamacare fees.”Â
A headline at the uber-conervative National Review, published at 6:00 PM today, reads: “Boehner to Sue Obama over Employer-Mandate Delay.”
So it’s amusing that John Boehner claims the employer mandate is “leading many companies to slash workers’ hours,” since Obama did issue an executive order delaying the effective date of the employer mandate to 2015 or 2016. In other words, there is no employer mandate in effect, so if people are having hours cut it’s not due to Obamacare. It’s likely due to the poor policies the GOP supports that have hindered job growth. And despite those policies, there’s this just-published headline from the New York Times: “U.S. Jobless Claims Fall to Lowest Level Since Before Recession.”Â
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week to one of its lowest levels since before the 2007-9 recession, a sign of increasing health in the labor market.
John Boehner says the House Republicans’ solutionv to this unemployment problem is “The Save American Workers Act (H.R. 2575)” which “restores the work week back to 40 hours – putting more Americans, and more women, back into good-paying, consistent positions.”
Reality translation: H.R. 2575Â lets employers stop paying benefits, like vacation pay, sick pay, and lets them stop funding 401(k) retirement plans for anyone who doesn’t work a full 40-hour week. That, John Boehner says, is how House Republicans are “are working for women and all Americans.”
Another lie of Boehner’s on his “3 things House Republicans are doing for women” list: Flooding the market with gasoline will lower gas prices. Gas prices are set by the oil companies, just as the GAP sets the price of their jeans and tees. But John Boehner just doesn’t get it.
The “House Republicans’ solution: Lowering Gasoline Prices to Fuel an America that Works Act (H.R. 4899) is a package of bills passed by House Republicans that target America’s energy production. By expanding production, allowing for more exports, and reducing red tape in the energy industry, we can drive gas prices down. Lower gas prices puts more money in the pockets of hard-working Americans.”
The oil companies don’t need any more expanded production — President Obama, for better or worse, has vastly expanded oil leases the federal government controls. And that “reducing red tape in the energy industry” means reducing safety and safety inspections. Anyone care to remember the BP Oil Spill of 2010, just four years ago? Multiple states are still dealing with the disaster and cleanup.
These are the types of pro-corporate policies John Boehner and his Republican band of merry liars are trying to jam down the throats of the American people — sugar coated and camouflaged as “pro-women.” They are not.
But they are the perfect example of how out of touch and how willing to lie John Boehner and the GOP truly are.
Powerpuff Girls may rule — it’s time to make sure the GOP does not.
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