"They brought be whole binders of women..."

[mercury14]

 

[mercury14]

Be? *@^$ Tablet keyboard.

 

[Busybody]

why are you exploiting women?

 

[mercury14]

It's not like they're naked or anything.

 

[Busybody]

where are the women of color?

 

[hogjack]

I thought mercury14 was outed as another Kennedy Clan member alt?

I hate rich people especially the wealthy kids who didn't do a damned thing but be born into a family who made millions from illegal booze.

 

[Busybody]

yes

we

get

it

meanwhile the WH pays its women LESS

and the CUNT ECONOMIST said it was a HOSTILE WORK ENVIROMENT

 

[MeeMie]

Romney did a good job illustrating how his administration, while Governor of Massachusetts, sought out women to hold staff positions.

I wish he would have pointed to the fact that female employees in the Obama White House make considerably less than their male colleagues.

According to the 2011 annual report on 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).

 

[Tryharder62]

I think turnerleaf just wants more protests:

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

this is what i'm talking about


BANG BANG!

 

[mercury14]

Romney did a good job illustrating how his administration, while Governor of Massachusetts, sought out women to hold staff positions.

I wish he would have pointed to the fact that female employees in the Obama White House make considerably less than their male colleagues.

According to the 2011 annual report on 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).

Because those men are in higher positions than the women. Why do you think people of any gender should get pay equal to people in higher positions?

Romney didn't address the question of pay inequality at all, nor what he would do about it as president. Not addressing the question is a good answer to you?

 

[Busybody]

Because those men are in higher positions than the women. Why do you think people of any gender should get pay equal to people in higher positions?

?

BULLSHIT


meanwhile, while did the ECONOMIST CUNT call it a hostile work enviroment?

 

[MeeMie]

ditto

April, the 2011 annual report on White House staff revealed that the median annual salary for female White House employees was 18 percent less than male employees — $60,000 compared to $71,000.


Romney detailed his professional history, recruiting women into positions of power during his tenure as governor of Massachusetts. He further pointed out the economic suffering women have endured under Obama, including the loss of 580,000 jobs among women and 3.5 million women in poverty.


The "binders full of women", as you desperately cling to rebut Obama's dismal record of equality for women, relates only to records of proof of Romney's history of seeking out, hiring for positions of power and adjusting schedules to accommodate women in his administration.

Viral only to desperate fools, indeed.

 

[CHNOPS]

Romney detailed his professional history, recruiting women into positions of power during his tenure as governor of Massachusetts.

He did say that last night, it's true.

Unfortunately, that's the only part of it that is.

What actually happened was that in 2002 -- prior to the election, not even knowing yet whether it would be a Republican or Democratic administration -- a bipartisan group of women in Massachusetts formed MassGAP to address the problem of few women in senior leadership positions in state government. There were more than 40 organizations involved with the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus (also bipartisan) as the lead sponsor.

They did the research and put together the binder full of women qualified for all the different cabinet positions, agency heads, and authorities and commissions. They presented this binder to Governor Romney when he was elected.

I have written about this before, in various contexts; tonight I've checked with several people directly involved in the MassGAP effort who confirm that this history as I've just presented it is correct -- and that Romney's claim tonight, that he asked for such a study, is false.

I will write more about this later, but for tonight let me just make a few quick additional points. First of all, according to MassGAP and MWPC, Romney did appoint 14 women out of his first 33 senior-level appointments, which is a reasonably impressive 42 percent. However, as I have reported before, those were almost all to head departments and agencies that he didn't care about -- and in some cases, that he quite specifically wanted to not really do anything. None of the senior positions Romney cared about -- budget, business development, etc. -- went to women.

Secondly, a UMass-Boston study found that the percentage of senior-level appointed positions held by women actually declined throughout the Romney administration, from 30.0% prior to his taking office, to 29.7% in July 2004, to 27.6% near the end of his term in November 2006. (It then began rapidly rising when Deval Patrick took office.)

Third, note that in Romney's story as he tells it, this man who had led and consulted for businesses for 25 years didn't know any qualified women, or know where to find any qualified women. So what does that say?

http://blog.thephoenix.com/BLOGS/talkingpolitics/archive/2012/10/16/mind-the-binder.aspx

 

[MeeMie]

Your spin doesn't negate the fact that Romney did indeed level the playing field for women in his administration, regardless of who you attribute such credit to. In the end, it was Romney who hired and accommodated the positions in his administration.

 

[mercury14]

I dont care if Romney appointed many women in Mass or not because that had nothing to do with the question.

 

[mercury14]

Your spin doesn't negate the fact that Romney did indeed level the playing field for women in his administration, regardless of who you attribute such credit to. In the end, it was Romney who hired and accommodated the positions in his administration.

Cool so what's he going to do as president?

Because you know, Obama answered the question and Mitt did not.

 

[MeeMie]

How can I possibly discuss the question with you when you choose to ignore all of the previously posted relating to Obama's vs Romney's actual history of hiring women for power positions within their own administrations.

It's like talking to a fucking wall.

 

[Wyldfire]

Does anything either of them said really mean shit? Nope, cause either way we're going to be sucking wind. Neither of them are going to do anything but put us in more debt.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Does anything either of them said really mean shit? Nope, cause either way we're going to be sucking wind. Neither of them are going to do anything but put us in more debt.

How very sad this must make you.

If I had a cookie, I'd give it to you.

 

[Busybody]

New Book Claims Obama White House Is a ‘Hostile Workplace’ for Women
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 2:03pm by Madeleine Morgenstern


A new book claims the Obama White House is a “hostile workplace” for women and a “boys’ club,”

“Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President” by Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind discusses pervasive infighting within the administration, and quotes former White House communications director Anita Dunn as saying, “this place would be in court for a hostile workplace.”


Former White House communications director Anita Dunn. (AP File Photo)

“It actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women,” Dunn said.

But in an interview with the Washington Post, which obtained an excerpt from the book, Dunn appeared to walk her comments back, saying she told Suskind “point blank” that the White House “was not a hostile environment.”

“The president is someone who when he goes home at night he goes home to house full of very strong women,” she said. “He values having strong women around him.”

According to the Post, women held many senior positions in the White House but felt outmaneuvered by male colleagues including former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and former economic adviser Larry Summers:





“I felt like a piece of meat,” Christina Romer, former head of the Council of Economic Advisers, said of one meeting in which Suskind writes she was “boxed out” by Summers.

Dunn told Suskind that the problems began during the 2008 campaign. At one point she was viewing a television ad with other campaign officials and was shocked to see no women in the spot.







.

“There isn’t a single woman in this ad,” Dunn said. “I was dumbfounded. It wasn’t like they were being deliberately sexist. It’s just there was no one offering a female perspective.”

The ad was later reshot, with women included.

“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.”

Dunn told the Post that her husband, now-White House lawyer Bob Bauer, was “surprised to see me as someone who could be talked over in meetings.”

“It’s a place where there is vigorous discussion back and forth. At various times people have issues with their colleagues, but we were united,” Dunn said. “I’ve been very clear that this is a president who values a diverse set of voices on every issue.”

Dunn wouldn’t talk specifics, but added: “I take issue with the idea that [the White House] was a place where senior women weren’t involved in every aspect of every major decision and their voices weren’t heard.”

Yet according to the book, Obama at one point failed to ask Romer for her opinion after soliciting opinions from her male colleagues during a dinner. Incensed, Romer passed a note to Summers threatening to walk out as a result of the snub.

The book was written with White House support: Obama sat for a 50-minute interview with Suskind, who also interviewed other top administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

“Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President” is due out Tuesday.

 

[Wyldfire]

How very sad this must make you.

If I had a cookie, I'd give it to you.

What makes me sad are the tools they both use to promote their personal agendas. The entirety of the government has become a tool politicians use to maintain retirement plans for themselves. Show me an honest politician. Find one. He might be under a rock somewhere in D.C. but I doubt it.

 

[RobDownSouth]

What makes me sad are the tools they both use to promote their personal agendas. The entirety of the government has become a tool politicians use to maintain retirement plans for themselves. Show me an honest politician. Find one. He might be under a rock somewhere in D.C. but I doubt it.

Okay, two cookies, but that's my final offer.

 

[renard_ruse]

Romney did a good job illustrating how his administration, while Governor of Massachusetts, sought out women to hold staff positions.

I wish he would have pointed to the fact that female employees in the Obama White House make considerably less than their male colleagues.

According to the 2011 annual report on 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).

Its the 21st century, is there anyone, and I mean anyone, who's actually living in THIS century who believes that chicks are more disadvantaged than dudes? The whole way the extremist fringe femanists continue to be able to distort the dialogue toward some ridiculous mythology with ZERO BASIS in factual reality shows how distorted "our" public discourse is.

Men can be legally discriminated against in employment, chicks cannot be (unless they are white, or in some cases Asian, and its racial, but not because of sex). This whole discourse shows what a bad joke our public dialogue really is and how far away it is from even touching on the real issues. Its INSANE.

 

[Wyldfire]

Okay, two cookies, but that's my final offer.

Make it three and I'll say in public you won.