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Subscribe to RSSAfter enduring negative headlines that all of the House Republican committee chairmanships will be filled by men in the next Congress, Republicans have found their woman.
NBC News has learned that Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mich.) will be named chair of the House Administration Committee. Miller did not serve on the committee during the 112th Congress.
Lack of diversity has been an issue for the GOP, and many strategists believe that the party’s problems with women and minorities led to President Obama’s re-election.
Miller has been in Congress since 2003, and her highest committee level post is on the House Homeland Security Committee.
The House Administration Committee deals with the pertinent administrative business of the House. The committee can decide such mundane things as whether or not the House cafeterias will use paper or Styrofoam plates -- or more serious matters such as benefit packages for congressional workers and how the Library of Congress operates. The Committee also monitors the expense accounts of House members.
House Speaker John Boehner issued this statement: “From ensuring the House runs efficiently and smoothly, to making Congress more open and accessible, Candice has a big job ahead as chairman of the House Administration Committee. In her new post, Candice will provide the leadership needed to keep operating costs down, save taxpayer dollars, and help lawmakers use new technology to better engage with their constituents. And her experience as Michigan secretary of state will be invaluable given the committee’s oversight of campaign finance and election laws.
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In a related matter, Ms. Miller announced that she was changing her name to Miller-Hernandez so that the GOP could also claim that they had a Latino chair as well.
A woman Gawd Forbid, what in the heII is the GOP thinking, next thing they will say the earth is round, and that there was evolution
What really funny is that they made her Executive Secretary of Pencils and Pens and ink toner, The GOP putting a woman in her place. What a Sad bunch of Old Angry White Men
Ex, ink toner, hahahahaha, thanks.
My secret GOP decoder ring tells me that her experience as Michigan Secretary of State will help in the 2014 voter suppression efforts, too.
Yet Democrats worked long and hard to replace Mia Love and Allen West with two white guys and nobody seemed to care..........
GOP - I would say it's a little to late, your Party is over !!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, which white guy lost his job to the woman? And will there be a lawsuit? LOLOL!!!!
Putting a woman on a pedestal? typical GOP mistake!
Behind the scene, all the chauvinistic pigs tell her that this is just a ruse against the Democrats, to humor the public, and that they are still in charge, and she is just a puppet and rubber stamp.
WCA:
You must weigh many hundreds of pounds, because bucko, you are always out to lunch. Mia Love ran for office in a state - Utah - which has just a hint of Mormon to it. You know, Mormons, the folks who only recently started pretending that people with dark skin are human beings.
Allen West is completely off his rocker, which, while generally a plus for a right-winger is not necessarily viewed as a desirable attribute by sane and reasonable folks.
You are wrong when you say that nobody seemed to care. Obviously, a majority cared enough to elect Democrats. Grow up. Stop whining.
The GOP Loonies Hate Woman and their rights, look what they are now doing to Susan Rice !!!
They also ordered her to get an Afro - their pick (pun intended) had to meet 3 criteria .. woman, Black, and Latino. Speaking of which, I am almost positive there was a certain poster on FR that would have met their criteria - and to boot, she loved being used and abused by white GOPTP guys.
The Republicons will have her cleaning the GOP's Dirty Laundry !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can we say "token woman?" Can we also say - not even close to enough?????
Any friend of Tom DeLay is a ...? more at ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice_Miller#Political_positions
Is Miller a Birther ???????????
The GOP still doesn't get it. After losing 77% of the women vote, they nominated 19 males for open committee positions and not a single female. Only after this issue was highlighted in the national media they so much hate, have they come to their senses and picked a token.
They aren't fooling anyone. The party will never change. It will die and be remembered as the party of the old angry white man.
It took the whole country fighting like mad for the GOP to appoint a woman as head of the housekeeping committee!! Cheers GOP, you are really moving against the times.
Here comes the Hamburger Helper. Although it is 70s cooking technology - it's still the best way to stretch a pound of ground beef to a full blown dinner with leftovers.
Well, I guess it's better late than never.
You all have a great weekend and we'll check in with you next week. Who knows, this could start a trend. Next thing you know they'll appoint a minority to a chairmanship and then ANYTHING could happen.
Are the two Loonies (John "Fart" McCain) & (Lindsey "Jackoff" Graham) going to grill their little lady like they are with Susan Rice !!!!!!!!!!
Okay, so you got called out on your portrait of old white men you really wanted on all your committees. They are your picks and I seriously doubt if it occurred to you to put a woman in any of the slots. Don't you guys think the public got your message? Adding a woman for the administration committee? Is that where you really think she fits best or will she have some girlie duties of paper-pushing that seems appropriate to you for all her womanliness? Let's be honest. You didn't think of her, don't want her there, and she is your token skirt.
Seriously, do you think we are all dense and that we will nod with a smile at you now....ahh, all better and now they like and respect women. The truth is that it doesn't occur to most of them to consider a woman for a position of power. Just be honest. You like your groups all white men when it involves power and prestige...it is a bit obvious that is who you are there to lobby for, and not seeing that this is a problem is what the problem is in the first place.
"After criticism, GOP adds woman to chair House committee"
Let me guess, after searching their binders full of women perhaps?
The public didnt see that one coming...
Good work Republifarts...good work; "y'all headin' in the right direction"...
Boehner, you deserve a bone for this...
Ah! The republicans finally appointed their TOKEN chick! I knew it was coming! Let's face it. They (the republicans) are a mess. What's next?
Ah! republican tokenism! Isn't that fitting to the party so out of touch with everything!
Dang, you beat me to it!!! LOL
There will probably be a Boehner "lap-dog" to check everything she does.
House Administration Committee? So she has to clean and dust and vacuum; but does she do windows?
"their pick (pun intended) had to meet 3 criteria .. woman, Black, and Latino."---All the Repubs had to do was to find Aretha Gonzalez. A Hispanic surname, black female. By the way, she is 1/8 Native-American, a lesbian, and an partially-disabled Iraq War veteran. Overnight the Repubs would become the party of diversity!!
Just one woman amongst all those men and still no token minorities in their committee lineup, eh? When pushed, is that the best they can do?
They definitely don't represent a sampling of America's population, but it does reflect the conservative Republican view of what kind of people they want ruling the U.S., and that's a rule by only one, very narrow demographic.
Considering that's the best they can do, it seems like the GOP Tea Party wants to make themselves go the way of the Whig Party when elections come about again in 2014 and 2016, and sooner, rather than much, much later.
I can't wait to see how much money she cuts from the GOP Spending! If they really want to save money don't by paper or Styrofoam plates, use real plates and wash them when you're done. We can't afford waste and we don't have the room for it in our landfills either! Make it fair and bring our own lunches, God knows you're not there for dinner. Put an end to Government Welfare! You're not entitled to it!
You lefty,socialist,commies are so predictable,so full of anger, racist remarks,ect and call it enlightenment.LMAO
Ster2: Funny guy. Republicans are the fathers of HATE: they even hate their own kind, evidenced by the way that the tea party nuts denounced and then politically murder the moderate Republicans in their party (for even DARING to state that they could “compromise”). That hate is also evidenced in the term they use for 'non-believers': RINO (Republican in Name Only). This isn’t a ‘red dog/blue dog’ term – it means someone who is ‘destroying the party from within’ and that ‘isn’t a true believer’ of the faith. I can’t think of any terms that the Indys or the Dems have to describe their own party members like this: but then, they usually don’t engage in that kind of self-destructive behavior.
Tell me again where the hate originates when the moderate Republicans (which are currently the reason behind the rise in the number of Independents in the US) cannot be allowed to stand amongst their OWN. Your “Moral Majority” is fast becoming a Moronic Minority.
And the reason is this: Hate, by its own nature, consumes itself.
Welcome, Ms. Miller
From the article above:
To reiterate: Use new technology to better engage with their constituents.
Does that mean Twitter and Facebook?
Or are the Republicans still using My Space and a Town Crier?
Good to see the Republicans becoming more diverse.
Now, if they can replace McCain, Graham and other life-time politicians with more diversity, then that's a good thing.
Salud
So the Congressional representative from my district now has a meaningful job. Well, good for her. She sure as hell doesn't do much around here. Might as well earn the taxpayers money and all of the benefits that go with it. I would love to see her replaced, but like an old piece of furniture, they just keep her around because the voters are used to her. Kind of crazy when all of the reptards scream about term limits, yet they have just as many or more dinosaurs in Washington than the Dems do.
What a gut wrenching decision this must have been for the Boner man. This ground breaking event does directly violate the Republican Party's core belief that all woman should be kept barefoot and pregnant.
White Collar Auto whined, "Yet Democrats worked long and hard to replace Mia Love and Allen West with two white guys and nobody seemed to care.........."
Yes - it's called an election! Completely unlike your party's "add another extremist and stir" strategy!
Run some sane women and people of color from your party, and you Republicans won't lose elections!
The problem is with STUPID women and minorities. Anyone with a brain would not have voted for a failed president. Just like voting Jesse Jackson Jr. in again. You can't fix stupid.
While most of the trolls have gone back to their caves, WCA remains. Please stop
whiningposting WCA. Dem or Repub, whining like a little biotch on every post the way you do is an embarrassment to real men everywhere.How much pure hate and insanity can the above comments embrace? Where will the hate end from the left? GET A GRIP...SHE'S A WOMAN! SO WHAT! Good Grief.
Ster2,
How fitting your choice of words that show you support the republican party of No and its white man ruled upper class society! We on the left, not communists yet, know that the only votes that count are the 2% or the ones that Romney campaign aide said he got were the most important! Keep it up, 2014 is coming and by then we may all be socialists and communists!
Crystal,
That is why there will not be 11 Teabuggers returning to Congress next term! A sign of things to come if the republicans keep up protecting the rich with Bonehead!
With the way the Republicans have treated women and minorities in the past it is no wonder they all got behind Mittwit the Mormon. Mittwit's faith fit right in with the Greedy Old Pharts philosophy. I bet they were hoping when Mittwit was sworn in as Prez they could have sister wives while in DC instead of mistresses. What a bunch of good old boys these Greedy Old Pharts are. Just like a frat house with a house mother with Mrs. Miller making sure they have plates, pencils, food and beer. The can be called the Groping Old Pharts now with Candice at the table.
Oops...so sorry a Repub Prez hasn't been getting BJs from women in the White House lately, Intellect.
Oops, sorry, you are right Justoneguy, the last GOP president was too busy lining his coffers and filling up coffins with his pet war in Iraq.
You already won two elections on your lies, distortion...or just plain ignorance thinginmom...a little reminder on the REAL history of Iraq for ya...don't let your head explode....
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
--President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton, signed by:
-- Democratic Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others, Oct. 9, 1998
"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
-- Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
No matter what the topic WCA will just in with the latest Fuax Noise talking points
Why Crystal! You're so right. It takes a COMPLETE idiot to NOT vote for someone who follows a religion that believes a man can have many wives, a wife may not have many husbands: THAT would be against God's law. AND who has made PLENTY of statements about a woman's place, and whose wife can't speak Spanish but is SO proud of her son who can, even though she doesn't understand what he's saying when he does. Cuz SHE'S not a fake blonde bimbo airhead (I'm blonde, forgive the remark please) And I SURE think that every woman out there should RUN not walk to the voting booth and INSTANTANEOUSLY be raped to PROVE that she didn't WANT to be raped by NOT getting pregnant. How STOOPID of women to not want MEN to make laws that involve WOMEN'S reproductive body parts and who promote VIAGRA up the ying yang. RAPE EM BOYS! You'll see! they WANT it that way. And when they get pregnant we'll haul em up by the noose if they DARE ask for welfare to feed the kids THEY Immaculately conceived!
how DARE women decide not to vote for THOSE candidates! Good lord, who gave women the vote?!?!
Just one guy: ummm there are DOZENS of letters DAILY to each president of our U.S. of A that URGE war upon some country (multiples of them) for a myriad of reasons. Just because a president receives a letter does NOT preclude his action upon it. And it is HIGHLY interesting that you completely "forgot" the whole REAGAN era part and then the subsequent BUSH part in the Iraq debacle. No... not Boy George but his DADDY. AND you forget that Clinton ALSO had information that was NOT passed on to Congress in the form of a B.S. book about how the weapons of mass destruction were being amassed against them. Clinton actually got INTELLIGENCE which is why he did NOT commit a war, and let's not forget the Halliburton part in the entire mess who had MAJOR motives to lie about the intelligence their hired hit men "collected" just so Halliburton could own the entire electric rights for a country. and WHO loved Halliburton? oh was that Cheney? nahhhh just forget the ENTIRE story, you're right, Iraq was ALL Clinton's fault.
The republican party! What a pitiful disgusting thing! Put it out of its misery!
My goodness most of you people would complain if they hung you with a gold rope. You b*tched that they had no women, so they get one and now you're b*tchin that she's just a "token" if she were black would y'all call her an Uncle Tom? (or whatever y'all use for black women)
"You lefty,socialist,commies are so predictable,so full of anger, racist remarks,ect and call it enlightenment."
1sgfitzswife4Id,
They are all white also! The party of the rich white upper class and token woman compared to a black and white mix of men and women for the Democrats! Who represent America and American Middle Class as compared to the rich white upper class of a male dominated party!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pitiful and disgusting!
Honest question - do you dems sit on your computer pushing refresh every two seconds waiting for a new political news story, so you can immediately jump on here for your hourly circle-jerk? I mean, really...from the looks of your posts you'd think your guy had lost. Miserable. If this is the only way you can make yourself feel better, I feel for ya. Hahaha, ok as you were - reading this stuff is hilarious.
Sorry for the interruption.
Edit: AHHHHHHH Hahahahahahahahaha and noticed another Fox news mention. This stuff never gets old!
rosieodonnelsmustache,
No, I do go to FOX to see what new attack O'Reilly will have against Obama. It has gone on now for 10 straight days by this "Fair and Balanced" FOX. I come here to read other statements that make me laugh when I think back to the FOX lies and crap!
Jstoneguy, so the terror attacks on the WTC were Clinton's fault because he told Junior that there was no threat. And now the Iraq war was all Clinton's fault because he told Junior that they were going to attack us. So 2 questions: First, wouldn't it have been better for Junior to get his own info and try to find some intelligence (maybe he did try but was unable). Second, after Clinton was so clearly wrong on the first part, shouldn't Junior have maybe thought he could be wrong on the second? I understand there is a lack of intelligence in the Republican party but to take the predecessor's word on foreign policy instead of finding your own information is at best irresponsible. And if Junior did get his own info then maybe you can stop trying to put it all on Clinton.
really clwyd? That's interesting.
Here's a list of black Republicans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_Republicans
here's a list of women republicans
http://womenincongress.house.gov/historical-data/representatives-senators-by-congress.html?congress=112
Considering I'm not a Republican even I could Google that.
It's like a 1st season episode of Mad Men; with Candace Miller playing the part of Joan - the only thing missing was Boehner (as Don Draper) holding a glass of Old Grand Dad while he made the announcement to the rest of the "boys in the office."
LA99999, we cannot forget Junior's first speech concerning Iran and war. Junior opened with the statement he was going after Hussein because he tried to kill his daddy. This was the real reason for Junior going after Iran not mention the money Haliburtion, Cheney et al, would be raking in from the war. Herein lies the truth of the war Junior started. We have to ask why Senior did not march on Baghdad. He knew it would throw the country into disarray which would cause a collapse of the entire social fabric of the country providing an opportunity for the extremists to move in. Simple psychology.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ~George Orwell
Wow a unqualified woman is added to the Administration Committee as Chairman just appease the "Sexist" men haters out there....Imagine that "Sexist Pigs" in the Demo-Republo-RAT Party!!
Hahahaha both the Wall Street Corrupted GOP and the Wall Street Corrupted DNC Suck........Why do you people bother to vote for either?
You are just a "Bad" as they are and your Children should be ashamed of you for pretending your voice matters while these Political Minions do what their Masters want to spoil all of our Children's Future!
Impeach Obama 2012 for the Crimes of Cover Up Murder, Lying to America, Secret CIA Prisons and His Secret Aid to Al Qaeda in Benghazi-Gate!
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever." ~ George Orwell, 1984
Culled from the pages of that famous unwritten book by Ayn Rand, "The Figurehead".
Time for everyone who thinks rosie is disgusting to IGNORE him/her. He/she is new and apparently has recently gone off the meds.
Regarding the article... when the GOP starts treating people as people and not as "after thoughts", they may become viable again. When I was Republican they at least stood for fiscal responsibility... although history says they did little to practice it. In those days their demographic profile was business... now it's "the old way of doing business" at the exclusion of everyone not meeting their "club" criteria.
So they think popping a woman into a propped-up position solves their exclusionary appearance? It doesn't. They are still exclusionary in practice.
So basically she's in charge of the secretarial and housekeeping activities?! What a bunch of sexist old morons!
On another note, Hillary Clinton's last action as Sec of State will be to appoint all of Bill's former and current girl friends to Embassy posts in the Middle East.... and get that video guy to produce a sequel.
Dear Crystal-569996, You are Absolutely correct, "You can't fix STUPID" and you are living proof of that!
Obsess much Kim?
Everyone who thinks Kim is hypocritical, please read though her past posts and tell me what you think. Kim, why have't you ignored me yet?
And, please, by all means ignore me. If something like that affects you (on an imaginary Internet message board with imaginary posters), I pity you that you find it that important.
Ignore whiner Kim and root for the Packers! With the injuries they have, I think they'll need all the help we can give them today!
and SteveH USA, love the avitar! The guy in the White House reads Mad Magazine more than he reads his daily security briefing notes! We all know he doesn't like attending those things and pretty sure he doesnt read the notes.... he gets his updates from Susan Rice!
LMarcT, it's a shame because I would probably vote conservative more often than not if they got back to their principals. Although I am more liberal socially and I think most are, I think the fiscal agenda would trump the social issues. The problem is their social issues aren't conservative, they are extreme. And their fiscal plan is all talk, as has been proven the last 3 decades. So we are left with deciding between a fiscally irresponsible party that is socially responsible or a fiscally irresponsible party that wants to take us back decades to the good old days when minorities were equal, as long as they kept to themselves and knew their place, and women were appreciated only when being subservient to their men. And they wonder why they were beaten.
Can't wait until the next election cycle when the republican blogosphere complains that the democrats made them raise taxes and made them kowtow to women and made them... really, what do you guys stand for? You have a majority in the friggin' house why don't you act like it and get some gotdamn work done! This country needs you to get to work! We need you to get to work! Job number one of making Obama a one term president failed. Get to friggin' work! Fiscal cliff - break it down, budget deficits - cut spending and raise revenue, unsustainable wars - end them bring troops home and cut military budget, jobs bill - pass it. You know what the answers are, you know what the voters voted for. DO IT, NOW, without anymore whinning and bitchin'. Don't make President Obama have to embarrass you anymore than he already has. Get to friggin' work.
wife,
Wow! Impressive, but then I looked at some of the names. Adviser, secretary, appointed! When I saw the nut case Herman Cain's name I just had to laugh! People who are insane and unfaithful need not be listed!
Ms Afterthought.... It's sad that they caved in to pressure... even sadder that they didn't consider it in the first place.
That works for both sides clwyd.
How nice of the GOP to put a token vagina in charge of something.
OK, I'm as liberal as it gets and voted not only for McGovern, but Carter twice! This story seems to be forgetting Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida) Chair of the House Committee on ForeignAffairs.
Truth can't be a right or left issue.
So basically, they made her a administrative assistant...how enlightened! Just like Cathy McMorris Rodgers...they made her in charge of scheduling "retreats" and outings...you can't make this stuff up. Can you say "The Handmaid's Tale"?
Libs have their token president and now the GOP has their token woman.
No we got the best person for the Job, GOP's best efforts didn't work well, 2 duds in a row, maybe three would be a charm, doubt it, Jindal for...........dog catcher.
Hillary Jan. 2017
two terms.....token???
Thanks for the Mitch McConnell (sic) laugh..........
2 terms bestest, still duds are duds.
Good Thanksgiving I hope.
Peace and civility.
Well, the Republican's can always claim George W. Bush as their token person for the mentally handicapped.
And I apologize in advance to the mentally handicapped or their relatives/supporters. No insult was meant to you and yours.
I'm not sure how anyone could or would insult a president, past or current, calling someone mentally handicapped?
And what have you done in your lifetime that achieved as much or more than any formeror current president has?
Childish dirp....
I think the GOP is just a bad joke, the time has come to Cleanse this party from the U.S.A. for a Cleaner America, no one likes a dirty House !!!!!!!!!!!!
It gives Dems a bad name, I thought we were better than that.
:-)
The GOP will put a restraining order on Candice Miller !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What's really sad is the Republican party doesn't realize this actually makes them look worse than before. One woman on an insignificant committee? Yet we have how many totally dumb men heading committees they don't begin to understand - and they certainly can't lead.
Let's see- why not at least 3 more women and a number of minorities? Oh wait - their little heads would explode!!!! Actually - that would NOT be a loss!
You know, dirp, I didn't care for Mr. Bush, but your comment wasn't necessary or appropriate.
Well, for a start you've got Lamar Smith, who's heading up the House Science and Technology committee.
He's a Christian Scientist, and believes that disease happens solely because of sin and can only be healed through prayer. He was the author of the SOPA bill, which would have heavily censored the Internet, and just last year introduced a bill that advocated ISPs keep a record of all their customers' activities on the Internet for at least a year, just in case law enforcement should ever want that information without having to go to the inconvenience of getting a warrant.
And yet he's still better than the last head, Ralph Hall, who is a global warming denier. Oh, Republicans.
Lil Michelle, ram and any others who object: its humor.
Seriously, if we can start the thread by saying that President Obama is a token, why can't we keep up the humor. After all, the appointment of ONE woman to be in charge of a Committee, and it happens to be the "office supplies committee" just shows how much of a joke the Republican party really is.
Oh well, hopefully by 2017, the Democratic Speaker, the President and possibly the Senate Majority leader will all be women. Maybe then we can balance the budget and get out of the war business too.
GWB (or "Shrub" as Molly Ivins called him) and Mittens Romney are glaring examples that an Ivy League education just might not be worth the time or money.
PA, Your just an sad ignorant SOB, who along with all your pimps, hookers and welfare crack heads now have your amateur president.
So kip360, are the majority of Americans, you know, the ones that elected OUR President pimps, hookers and welfare crackheads?
You sound like an ignorant, racist POS excuse for an American to me.
ahhh well. someone who has NO idea what the word token means. It's not token when a majority votes for you to lead. It's token when you're appointed, or hired in order to APPEAR diverse. Now then, if Obama had been given the appointment of cotton picking subcommittee.. yeah. that'd be crappy tokenism. That's not quite what happened is it?
You want to talk about a token – a Republican token --- try Michael Steele. Remember him? After Republicans got stomped in the 2008 election, they decided to show how much they welcomed blacks into their party and appointed a black guy -- Michael Steele – as Chairman of the RNC. During his two year term as Chairman, more Republicans were elected to office nationwide than during any two year period in the history of the Republican Party. So how did Republicans reword Mr. Steele for his outstanding success --- they FIRED him.
lm-And what have you done in your lifetime that achieved as much or more than any formeror current president has?
The problem isn't that he achieved things,it's what he achieved. He ignored terror warnings and we had 9/11. He took a budget surplus,that was beginning to pay off our debt. And through his spending brought us massively in the hole. He brought on two wars.One he mismanaged totally (Afghanistan),the other he lied to get us in (Iraq). And all the deaths and injuries to Americans and Iraqi's are on his hands He and his advisers disgraced our country before the whole world.And it has taken Obama 4 years to bring back goodwill from the world again. He left our country in the worst economic collapse since the great depression of the 1930's. So,you see it matters not that a President "achieves" things.But what they achieve instead.
Mia from Utah didn't get elected, despite all the massive GOP hype. In the end, well, she just wasn't White. Whites just wouldn't vote for her in Utah. Quick--let's do emergency damage control for the GOP.
If I didn't know better I'ld say this party was taking all it's plays straight from the Islam playbook
The Republicons should put "PALIN" in the house chair, that could be a better fit for the Loonies !!!
Taliboehner?
Good one, Clotho! And your avatar is my favorite character on the show.
Clotho... Fabulous!
Mine too Dee! As horrible as it sounds I couldn't wait for what's her name to die, I was kind of hoping the baby would eat her from the inside out.
Had not the media mentioned that every committee chairman was a white guy, the House Republicans wouldn't have even noticed it. That's the real problem. Republicans are blind --- they can't see what the rest of the nation sees. They haven't even yet figured out the only demographic supporting them are old, white men.
Come on now, you guys are missing the point. I think it's a clear sign of change that the Repubs are now concerned enough about women to appoint one to make sure there are tampons in the ladies rooms. Way to take care of women's needs.
I support parties from both sides, though I guess you could say I lean further right then left, I'm not old or a man (I'll give you white but that's beyond my control) not all Republicans are "evil" just like not all Democrats (had Hillary won the nomination I would've voted for her) y'all need to get off the straight party train.
I also love how y'all only picked up on one part of the committee she was given, she's also taking control of the checkbook (as most of us women do) I'm willing to bet money that spending will go way down because of it.
I wouldn't exactly say she's in charge of the checkbook. Sounds to me more like she is given a budget to redecorate the powder room and it's up to her to manage that money.
Perhaps all you people commenting on exactly what her duties will be should do some research. Oh wait, let someone else do that for you too: http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_House_Administration
Part of Miller's job will be to serve the GOP members sandwiches at every meeting. And pick up their dry cleaning.
She will have to make the coffee too. As a Michigander I can tell you that Miller was a OK Sec. of State. At least she didn't do any voter suppression like the current one has tried.
Don't forget she will also be expected to pour their water. Good old Michelle set the bar on servicing the white guys of the GOPTP.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/michele-bachmann-water-gop-forum_n_1105863.html
Hey RedDevPS, Bachmann would be a Classic Mix for a Better Party !!!!!!
So, what's your point? Good manners are good manners, I would do the same thing and i'm not even a republican *gasp*
The problem with the Republicans is not whether they have a couple of women,or minorities in their leadership. Its that they don't believe in women's or minority issues. Its their ideology that is their problem with those groups. Taking a woman from another committee.One where she tried to get that committee chairmanship and was denied. Move her to another committee,just so they could give her a committee chairmanship to look like their believed in diversity. Its a total fail,they made themselves even look worse.
The GOP a lack of diversity...lol an understatement. So now they found their token female to join the all boys club...how impressive!
The GOP walk with the Dinosaurs !!!!!!!!!!!!
The Republican party is a joke, bad, but a joke.
I already wondered during the McCain efforts how the HELL the GOP came up with Palin when they have a FABULOUS (albeit short) list of women they could have put up as Veep running mate. I wanted DESPERATELY for the party to come up with ANYONE who didn't think a wink, a bat of the eyes and some of the UTMOST stupid talking points would boost the vote. NOW instead of really THINKING out the valid point that many republicans AND U.S. citizens are complaining about, and admitting it's a problem, and addressing it coolly, calmly and with INTELLIGENCE... REALLY?!?! you put her in charge of "one of the most important" duties of making sure Congress doesn't get caught with it's pants down in the loo. Making sure the coffee is stocked, and the Congressional runners have enough wanter and sneakers to keep up their marathon. If I were Michelle, (PLEASE hear this!) I'd go on a personal one woman strike. LET them bring their OWN TP. (no one remarks that this is at taxpayer expense by the way, let's just attack those who are in need of food) and let them bring their OWN pens and pencils. Let them pay their OWN secretaries and worker's benefits like small business and big business alike has to. Michelle, SHOW them you're smarter than they're allowing you to be, and YES it's a matter of what they're giving you PERMISSION to do. Cuz you have breastesses.
(Boehner in the backroom: Boys we CAN'T give her a more important job. None of us will be able to keep our EYES off the buttons on her shirt! We'll NEVER get anything done! And she's a WOMAN for god's sake! She can't HANDLE the truth!)
From the many gaffs that the Republican Party are committing ,as well as the huge mistake of aligning with the Tea Party far right of somewhere ,I wonder if their leaders if they have any,have lost even a modicum of reality. I admit that as a Liberal Democrat I can not see how their support from any working person could exist , but admit that it does,although I feel that they are loosing more at each election.They are either underestimating the mental capabilities of their employers or are overestimating their abilities to hoodwink the electorate
Well, we are evolving. I mean we have affirmative action in the White House.
No we have the best, the peter principle at its best in the GOP, keep promoting them and look what you got: Mitch McConnell and Boehner, that's the best you can do.
Only the sub-ignorant would believe the majority vote equals affirmative action
another one who doesn't even understand the phrase they're using. Geez. Affirmative action: taking a person SOLELY based on a diversity quota in place of the top qualified candidate. We got the top qualified candidate. Running a gov't is NOT the same as running a businness. I sure as hell didn't want Romney running around bankrupting and shutting down state governments while he pocketed billions for it.
While I didn't vote for Romney Echoe, I do have to say there's already city governments going bankrupt and those officials are more likely then not pocketing millions. Seems that it's happening regardless of what letter is in the white house.
She should have got Boneheads job, then maybe we would have someone with intelligence ina position of power in the GOP
So Candice Miller, a woman, is put in charge of House administration to make sure it runs smoothly. And they say the GOP does not have a sense of irony and humor.
And I am sure that she will be expected to wear the June Cleaver tidy little apron and wear her single strand pearls and high heels while sorting the Styrofoam cups and pressing the GOPTeaBag men's suits to ensure they are properly dressed. Plus, make sure that their lunch's ready and served on time every day, even weekends.
I know that GOPTeaBag women are not supposed to think for themselves, that is obviously a requirement for all female GOPTeaBag candidates, but, if if were me, I would have told them to take the job and stick it where their brains are, that being where the sun don't shine, rather than letting them make a total fool of me by being selected as their token woman, and being even further insulted by being assigned to the housekeeping committee.
Ms. Miller obviously has no self-respect, nor bothered by the fact that no one else in her party has any respect for her. All that matters to them is that she has white skin. That says a great deal about the importance of her job, the qualifications of those members of their party and who serve on their committees.
But, there will be likely be few who will try to get her into the linen closet.
It's one of the funniest things I've heard today. I understand it is the real reason McConnell was laughing. Mark it on your calender, it doesn't happen often.
Tink.. I'd only disagree on ONE point. All the women are expected to hike their dresses because MEN bring home the money and MEN need it more than any woman needs it. By golly if a man brings home the bacon, he getst to stuff the pork! or cow.. or whatever seems appropriate for the GOP line of thinking anymore. Note to GOP: the U.S. is made up of MORE than 50% women. Kinda works in your favor not to piss them all off.
I should hope that Candice Miller will prove ,like most women appointed to a token Chieftain's job, to be much more efficient at the job than those idiots who appointed her and like many in her position end up ruling most of them. From a Liberal Democrat male.
Yes the history of the two political parties is truly stellar in their treatment of women.
Women are the majority population and registered voter-wise, yet are still less than 25% of our elected officials...
Democrats are better, but that really isn't saying much. 100 years after the Women's Suffrage movement was finally vindicated, women are still 2nd class citizens politically and electorally in America.
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"Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black."
Shirley Chisholm
The problem for the GOP is that they can't find intelligent women to run for office as a Republican.
The intelligent women know better than to join the GOP.
That does make it kind of hard to find intelligent women to be chairman of the various committees.
How about Michelle Bachman for Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee ?
Female Members
Ninety-one women (16.8% of the total membership) serve in the 112th Congress, two fewer than at the end of the 111th Congress29. Seventy-four, including 3 Delegates, serve in the House and 17 in the Senate. Of the 74 women in the House, 50 are Democrats, including the 3 Delegates, and 24 are Republicans. Of the 17 women serving in the Senate, 12 are Democrats and 5 are Republicans.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDkQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.senate.gov%2Freference%2Fresources%2Fpdf%2FR41647.pdf&ei=ABe5UNz7EMqt0AHBt4CABQ&usg=AFQjCNFzhf4A_jz6IHry0Sj8bzjB86YJ1w&sig2=Tsr-dVa8DNI1kMymscYzSw
dirp, didn't your computer object when you put Michell Bachman and Intelligence in the same sentence?
michigan voter: It kind of objected to the "House Intelligence" in the same sentence. I had to reboot after putting Michelle Bachman in that sentence.
Yup Mich and Dirp -
As an old trekie, I can hear your computer saying "it does not compute - non-sequater - this creature is a mass of conflicting impulses - must sterlize...."
"Please tell Miss Miller I prefer Charmin" ~ John Boehner
The thing about stupidity is that it can't recognize intelligence. That's why it's stupidity. It always takes the more intelligent to move the less intelligent ahead because they lack the ability to understand cause and effect. The behavior of this group of Republicans proves how dim their mental lightbulbs shine.
at first I was going to object Dirp. There are actually intelligent women in the republican party (they're getting fewer and farther between) BUT then it popped into my head: Why Echoe, Bachman can see smart people from her backyard! That makes her a VERY viable appointee recommendation to the Intelligence Committee.
Our tax dollars at work. There seriously has to be a committee to determine whether there are paper or styrofoam cups in the cafeteria? Yes, let's have a meeting - make it several meetings - to determine something that one person operating on a minimum of a 40-watt bulb as a brain could decide in 20 seconds.
Right...even I could do that job! ;D
Lol. They put her in charge of the Home Economics Committee.
And made sure she could leave work in time to make her husband's dinner.
She doesn't have to trouble her pretty little head over issues like taxes or the budget. She can make sure that everyone has paper clips.
Did they find her in the binder full of women?
The binder was too thick to read through.. they used a piece of gum hanging from a chain of paper clips to divine who they should pick. if they had a cotton picking committe a black man would have gotten that. When they get a chili committee they're be sure to put in a 100% hispanic Frijole. Never let it be said the GOP is discriminatory! They hate EVERYONE who isn't white and male.
Hope she has time to get her French maid's uniform out of the cleaners.
Yes, but where does she stand on the important "Plastic or Paper" issue?
I must admit that her position will be of international importance to the world which is looking at this appointment with great relief.
The sad part is they had to be shamed into picking a woman -- and look what they give her. The GOP still don't get... and probably never will.
Don't get me wrong I'm glad they did it, but it did seem like they were kicking and screaming the whole way.
Oh and least you think this is a move forward..."During the 108th Congress, Miller was admonished by the House Ethics Committee for improperly attempting to influence the vote of fellow Michigan Congressman Nick Smith on a Medicare vote". Additionally Miller is a signer of Grover Norquist's Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which commits her to oppose tax increases
Same ol, Same ol!
They WERE kicking and screaming the whole way, just like they do whenever they are forced to do the right thing.
Oh, sure, GOP boys, this makes it allllll better. Women everywhere are sighing in relief with the fine example you've set for the rest of the world. I think the conversation went something like this:
Speaker Boehner: Eric, what's the name of that committee we never pay attention to because it has no power over anything meaninful?
Rep. Cantor: Ah, the administrative committee?
Boehner: Yeah, yeah, that's the one. Find some broad to put in charge of that.
Did they find her in the book of women in binders?
Nailed it.
So the House Chairmen are all white guys and one token woman.... No minorities at all. It's now officially the GOPOWM (Grand Old Party of Old White Men". Time to go the way of the wig party...
Hey, it is not just old white men. It also includes umpa loompa's, you know, the orange guys.
Those are called Grumpy Old Vets who are opposed to intelligent women running the Dept. of State but in support of women who wink and encourage people to shoot blacks and call them N names and who can see Russia from the back yard.
After taking tons of public flak the Washington White Men's Club (referred to by many as the republican party) finnaly have come around to appointing their token woman chairperson. I assume they're now looking for a pat on the back, right?
P.S. As I was posting this 'Ourdoc''s came up. Great minds think alike!
Good job by Rachel Maddows. She brought this to light on her show and lo and behold it happens.
I have concluded that the best way to feel "Good" about America, is to just 'pretend' "TODAY'S" Republican Party simply does NOT exist....
THEY are currently "100%" Irrelevent, and markedly "on their way" to "EXTINCTION"...!!!!
Window dressing. It thought that there were more women than men in America? What kind of sensitivity and awareness to America's women's vote and their voice is this Committee Chairperson assignment?
Who is going to make the coffee??
As an added bonus to her new title, they also made her Chief Coffee Maker.
Boner added, "and as House Administration chair Ms. Miller will make sure that members of the committee have well-balanced lunches and pressed suits"
Ahh...too bad Bonehead couldn't have been a bit more hateful and insulting. But, I'm sure McConnell will help him master that very quickly.
She has been given the equivalent of Administrative Assistant, or Secretary, to the HOR. Huge step forward. What a bunch of jerks! If I were her, I would tell Boehner to stick his committee chairmanship where the sun don't shine.
I guess it took this long to go through Mitt's binders full of women to get one that could be chair.
Honestly, why bother at this point? It will be seen for what it is - a cynical, token gesture at something which the GOP does not believe in, i.e. equality for women.
What a disgrace.
Really? What has your party done for women's equality?
Absolutely nothing. They do it for themselves in our party.
"Absolutely nothing. They do it for themselves in our party."
Spoken like a true GOPTeaBag. Their party women have to do it all themselves, because the men in their party are so inept they can't find their own a$$, even with both hands, a flashlight and a map.
Fine Tink. I think you missed the point. I am a Democrat. In the Demoscratic party we trust our women to dothings. Unlike the people you mentioned.
SpokaneWA - Sorry if I misunderstood. But, there was nothing in your response that gave any indication that you were a Democrat, or that your intention was meant as a compliment, not an insult to women.
The GOP said they love Women, Bull-look what they are doing to a nice lady, Susan Rice !!!
Sorry Tink, but I thought Spokane made it very clear when in context of the post right before. Very well put Spokane.
That's not fair, Patriotic. They do love their women, not to mention other people's women. Just as long as the women know their place.