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. 

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:

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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. 2575 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.