Dems to Women: No Thanks

April 12, 2012

Obama Adviser’s Comments Disparaging Mothers are Just the Latest Example of the Obama Administration’s Disregard for Women

Obama adviser Hilary Rosen sparked a firestorm Wednesday with comments that Ann Romney, as a stay-at-home mother, “never worked a day in her life,” a job Rosen sees as “a wonderful luxury.”
Apparently, working in the Obama White House isn’t “a wonderful luxury” for women, since a new study reveals that women on the White House staff make less than their male counterparts, and some women have complained of feeling “frozen out” and said that the White House “would be in court for a hostile workplace.”
Meanwhile, the Democrats’ failed policies which have reduced economic opportunities for women and reduced the quality of healthcare for America’s families.

Obama adviser Hilary Rosen sparked a firestorm Wednesday with comments that Ann Romney, as a stay-at-home mother, “never worked a day in her life,” a job Rosen sees as “a wonderful luxury”:

OBAMA ADVISER/DNC STRATEGIST HILARY ROSEN SAID STAY-AT-HOME MOM ANN ROMNEY “NEVER WORKED A DAY IN HER LIFE”: “President Obama’s top political advisers moved rapidly late Wednesday night to distance the president from a Democratic strategist and adviser to the Democratic National Committee who accused Ann Romney of having ‘never worked a day in her life.'” (Michael D. Shear, “Obama Campaign on the Defensive Over Strategist’s Comments About Ann Romney,” The New York Times, 4/12/2012)

AND THEN DOUBLED DOWN, SAYING BEING A STAY-AT-HOME-MOM “IS A WONDERFUL LUXURY” AND SHE EVEN “ENV[IES] THEM SOMETIMES”: “Ms. Rosen added: ‘I have no judgements about women who work outside the home vs. women who work in the home raising a family. I admire women who can stay home and raise their kids full-time. I even envy them sometimes. It is a wonderful luxury to have the choice.'”(Michael D. Shear, “Obama Campaign on the Defensive Over Strategist’s Comments About Ann Romney,” The New York Times, 4/12/2012)

ROSEN HAS VISITED THE WHITE HOUSE 35 TIMES: (Jim Geraghty, “Hilary Rosen, Frequent White House Visitor,” National Review, 4/12/2012)

HILARY ROSEN WAS HIRED BY DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ FOR “MEDIA TRAINING”: “According to a Wall Street Journal report in February, Obama advisers told Wasserman Schultz to ‘tone it down,’ suggesting that they hire ‘two seasoned Democratic female pros, Anita Dunn and Hilary Rosen,’ for media training, in preparation for the upcoming campaign. Wasserman Schultz willingly accepted.” (Charlie Spiering, “Rosen Hired for Wasserman-Schultz Media Consulting,” The Washington Examiner, 4/12/2012)

Apparently, working in the Obama White House isn’t “a wonderful luxury” for women, since a new study reveals that women on the White House staff make less than their male counterparts, and some women have complained of feeling “frozen out” and said that the White House “would be in court for a hostile workplace”:

OBAMA’S “WAR ON WOMEN” GIMMICK “BLEW UP IN HIS FACE”:“Overnight President Obama’s faux ‘war on women’ attack on Mitt Romney blew up in his face. It is fitting that a gimmick should boomerang this quickly and this severely, maybe giving Romney the first big break of the race.”(Jennifer Rubin, “Attacking Ann Romney—Yeah, That’s the Ticket!”, The Washington Post, 4/12/2012)

REPORT: WHITE HOUSE PAYS WOMEN 18 PERCENT LESS THAN MEN:“Female colleagues in the Obama White House make considerably less than their male colleagues, records show. According to the 2011 annual report on the White House staff, female employees earned a median annual salary of $60,000, which was about 18 percent less than the median salary for male employees ($71,000).” (Andrew Stiles, “Hostile Workplace,” Washington Free Beacon, 4/11/2012)

FORMER WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR ANITA DUNN: OBAMA WH “WOULD BE IN COURT FOR A HOSTILE WORKPLACE”: ” ‘This place would be in court for a hostile workplace,’ former White House communications director Anita Dunn is quoted as saying. ‘Because it actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.'” (Nia Malika-Henderson and Peter Wallsten, “Book: Women in Obama White House Felt Excluded, Ignored,” The Washington Post, 9/16/2011)

OBAMA OFFICIAL: PRESIDENT “HAS A REAL WOMAN PROBLEM,” “JUST AS RESPONSIBLE” FOR CREATING ANTI-WOMAN ENVIRONMENT AS HIS STAFF:” ‘The president has a real woman problem,’ an unnamed high-ranking female official told Suskind. ‘The idea of the boys’ club being just Larry and Rahm isn’t really fair. He [Obama] was just as responsible himself.'” (Nia Malika-Henderson and Peter Wallsten, “Book: Women in Obama White House Felt Excluded, Ignored,” The Washington Post, 9/16/2011)

FORMER TOP WH ECONOMIST CHRISTINA ROMER: “I FELT LIKE A PIECE OF MEAT”: “Christina Romer, former head of the Council of Economic Advisers, said of one meeting where she’d been shut down by Summers, ‘I felt like a piece of meat.'” (David A. Graham, “9 Juicy Bits from Ron Suskind’s Book,” The Daily Beast, 9/19/2011)

TOP FEMALE STAFFERS “FELT FROZEN OUT”: (Peter Wallsten and Anne E. Kornblut, “In Early Obama White House, Female Staffers Felt Frozen Out,” The Washington Post, 9/20/2011)

FORMER WH CHIEF OF STAFF BILL DALEY: “I DID HEAR THERE WERE SOME ISSUES EARLY ON”… AND THEY WERE RAHM’S FAULT!: ” ‘So I don’t see it as, um, I didn’t even read the book, but I did hear that there were some issues early on under a predecessor of mine, so I can dump on him about it.'” (Daniel Halper, “Daley: The White House’s Women Problem Was Rahm’s Fault,” The Weekly Standard, 10/6/2011)

MAUREEN DOWD REPORTED THAT OBAMA’S WHITE HOUSE WAS AN “OVAL MAN CAVE”: (Maureen Dowd, “Oval Man Cave,” The New York Times, 10/27/2009)

TIME: “NO WOMAN SEEMS TO QUALIFY FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA’S INNERMOST CIRCLE”: (Amy Sullivan, “The White House Boy’s Club: President Obama Has a Woman Problem,” Time, 9/21/2011)

BUSH HAD WOMEN IN HIS “BRAIN TRUST” WHERE OBAMA DOESN’T: (Amy Sullivan, “The White House Boy’s Club: President Obama Has a Woman Problem,” Time, 9/21/2011)

OBAMA BUMPED FIRST WOMAN EDITOR OF NEW YORK TIMES JILL ABRAMSON FOR BARNARD COMMENCEMENT SPEECH: (Dylan Byers, “Obama Bumps Jill Abramson at Barnard,” Politico, 3/3/2012)

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN ON OBAMA DECISION TO BUMP ABRAMSON: “THIS IS POSITIVELY RUDE”: “Of course Abramson can’t criticize this – so I will for her and for other women.

“This is positively rude. I think less of Barnard for ‘trading up’ and of the President for ‘big footing.’ He could easily find another college to speak at (I bet he has dozens of open invitations) and Barnard ? Well…I would be embarrassed to be part of Barnard.” (Greta Van Susteren, “No Manners? New York Times Editor Jill Abramson Gets ‘Big Footed’ By President Obama and Barnard ‘Trades Up,'”Greta Wire, 3/3/2012)

AND LET’S NOT FORGET, OBAMA CAMPAIGN REFUSED TO RETURN $1 MILLION DONATIONS FROM WELL-KNOWN MISOGYNIST BILL MAHER:

TOP OBAMA ADVISOR DAVID AXELROD: MAHER’S MISOGYNIST COMMENTS ARE ” A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT” SINCE HE HAS A “STANDUP ACT”…HA HA?: “But– understand that these words that– Maher has used in his standup act— are a little bit different than— not excusable in any way– but– different than a guy– with 23 million radio listeners using his broad– cast platform to malign a young woman for speaking– her mind in the most– in the most inappropriate grotesque— ways.” (Maggie Haberman, “Axelrod: Maher and Limbaugh Are Not the Same,” Politico, 3/15/2012)

BILL MAHER CONTRIBUTED HALF OF ALL OBAMA’S SUPER PAC FUNDRAISING IN FEBRUARY: “Priorities USA Action, a super PAC raising unlimited money to aid President Obama’s campaign, collected $2 million in February, following Obama’s reversal last month of his opposition to outside groups. Half of the money came from television host Bill Maher.” (Fredreka Schouten, “Pro-Obama Super PAC Collects $2 Million,” USA Today, 3/13/2012)

PRIORITIES USA SUPER PAC HEADED BY OBAMA BOYS’ CLUB MEMBER BILL BURTON: (Jeff Poor, “Obama Super PAC Chief: Equating Rush Limbaugh with Bill Maher ‘Is Crazy’,”The Daily Caller, 3/8/2012)

BURTON ON MISOGYNY: IT’S NOT OFFENSIVE, IT’S “COMEDY”: ” ‘There’s no just similarity about what Rush Limbaugh said, lying about the argument that Miss Fluke was making — a law student at Georgetown — and what a comedian has said in the past.'” (Jeff Poor, “Obama Super PAC Chief: Equating Rush Limbaugh with Bill Maher ‘Is Crazy’,” The Daily Caller, 3/8/2012)

BUT DEMS WON’T RETURN THE MAHER DONATION BECAUSE THEY NEED THE MONEY: “The top Democratic super PAC is still having trouble raising money, despite getting President Obama’s blessing.” (Aaron Blake, “Even With Obama’s Blessing, Top Dem Super PAC Finds Tough Sledding,” The Washington Post, 3/13/2012)

MAHER’S HALL OF SHAME:

MAHER “THE GRAND POOH-BAH OF MEDIA MISOGYNY”: “But the grand pooh-bah of media misogyny is without a doubt Bill Maher” (Kirsten Powers, “Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only Media Misogynist,” The Daily Beast, 3/4/2012)

MAHER SAID FORMER ALASKA GOV. SARAH PALIN WAS A “DUMB [EXPLETIVE],” USED THE “C-WORD” IN DESCRIBING HER: (Kirsten Powers, “Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only Media Misogynist,” The Daily Beast, 3/4/2012)

CALLED PALIN AND REP. MICHELE BACHMANN “BOOBS” AND “TWO BIMBOS”: (Kirsten Powers, “Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only Media Misogynist,” The Daily Beast, 3/4/2012)

JOKED ABOUT FORMER SEN. RICK SANTORUM’S WIFE USING A “VIBRATOR”: (Kirsten Powers, “Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only Media Misogynist,” The Daily Beast, 3/4/2012)

JOKED THAT A BREASTFEEDING MOTHER WAS TRYING TO FLASH HIM: (Kirsten Powers, “Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only Media Misogynist,” The Daily Beast, 3/4/2012)

AND THERE’S MORE: “And by the way, there is a place where breasts and food do go together. It’s called Hooters!” (Kirsten Powers, “Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only Media Misogynist,” The Daily Beast, 3/4/2012)

Meanwhile, the Democrats’ failed policies which have reduced economic opportunities for women and reduced the quality of healthcare for America’s families:

DEMOCRATS’ ANTI-WOMAN ECONOMIC RECORD:

“OBAMA LOSING GROUND AMONG WOMEN FROM HIS 2008 VOTE SHARE”:“Despite a significant outreach effort to female voters and Democratic accusations of a GOP ‘war on women,’ a new Bloomberg poll shows Obama losing ground among women from his 2008 vote share.” (Byron Tau, “Poll: Obama Down Among Female Voters from 2008 Results,” Politico, 3/14/2012)

NEW PEW REPORT: “SLOW JOBS GROWTH FOR WOMEN COULD COST OBAMA THE ELECTION”: (Vicki Needham, “Slower Jobs Growth for Women Voters Could Cost Obama the Election,” The Hill, 3/25/2012)

“WOMEN ARE THE ONLY GROUP FOR WHOM EMPLOYMENT GROWTH LAGGED BEHIND POPULATION GROWTH”: “Out of all the groups represented in Pew’s survey — including blacks, whites, Hispanics and Asians — women are the only group for whom employment growth lagged behind population growth from 2009 to 2011. During that time, female employment grew by 0.9 percent and lagged behind growth in the population of working-age women by 1.5 percent.” (Vicki Needham, “Slower Jobs Growth for Women Voters Could Cost Obama the Election,” The Hill, 3/25/2012)

WOMEN’S UNEMPLOYMENT UP FROM 7.0 PERCENT WHEN OBAMA TOOK OFFICE TO 8.1 PERCENT NOW: (“Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 4/12/2012)

IN OBAMA’S ECONOMY, ONLY 600K JOBS FOR WOMEN, 2.6 MILLION FOR MEN: “That has led to jobs gains of only 600,000 — from 65.5 million to 66.1 million — for women, compared with 2.6 million for men during those two years, the survey showed.” (Vicki Needham, “Slower Jobs Growth for Women Voters Could Cost Obama the Election,” The Hill, 3/25/2012)

WOMEN ARE DEEPLY PESSIMISTIC ABOUT OBAMACARE:

NEW POLL: 57% OF WOMEN BELIEVE OBAMACARE WILL INCREASE HEALTHCARE COSTS, ONLY 7% SAY IT WILL LOWER COSTS: (“Women’s Views on the Affordable Care Act,” YG Network, 3/20/2012)

56% OF WOMEN BELIEVE OBAMACARE WILL INCREASE THE DEFICIT,ONLY 7% BUY DEMOCRATS’ ABSURD CLAIM THAT IT WILL REDUCE THE DEFICIT:(“Women’s Views on the Affordable Care Act,” YG Network, 3/20/2012)

60% OF WOMEN THINK OBAMACARE WILL INCREASE TAXES; 4% THINK IT WILL LOWER TAXES: (“Women’s Views on the Affordable Care Act,” YG Network, 3/20/2012)

WOMEN SUPPORT REPEALING AND REPLACING OBAMACARE BY MARGIN OF 52% TO 37%: (“Women’s Views on the Affordable Care Act,” YG Network, 3/20/2012)

AND THE DEMOCRATS’ SPIN IS FAILING BADLY:

65% OF WOMEN SAY IT’S FALSE THAT OBAMCARE WILL LOWER PREMIUMS: (“Women’s Views on the Affordable Care Act,” YG Network, 3/20/2012)

63% OF WOMEN SAY IT’S FALSE THAT OBAMACARE “WILL LOWER COSTS FOR INDIVIDUALS, BUSINESSES, AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT”:(“Women’s Views on the Affordable Care Act,” YG Network, 3/20/2012)

57% OF WOMEN SAY IT’S FALSE THAT OBAMACARE “WILL NOT REQUIRE CUTS IN MEDICARE”: (“Women’s Views on the Affordable Care Act,” YG Network, 3/20/2012)

57% OF WOMEN SAY IT’S FALSE THAT OBAMACARE “WILL NOT LEAD TO A DOCTOR SHORTAGE, RATIONING, OR HARM THE QUALITY OF CARE”:(“Women’s Views on the Affordable Care Act,” YG Network, 3/20/2012)