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  • WaPo: Partisanship is admirable – for Democrats

    Paul Kane of the Washington Post gushes over what he calls the “unity” in the Democrat Congress;

    Through the first five months of the year, the average House Democrat has voted with a majority of his/her caucus colleagues on 94 percent of the 425 roll calls. Enjoying their honeymoon period, 110 Democrats — nearly half of the 232 Democrats — have sided with a majority of the caucus on at least 98 percent of the votes cast this year.

    Consider this: Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.) has been the most partisan Republican in the 110th Congress, voting with a GOP majority on 98 percent of votes. But if someone prints out the washingtonpost.com’s chart of most partisan voters in the House, they will have to turn through eight and a half pages of House Democrats before they see Putnam’s red-headed mug shot (Rep. Charles Norwood R-Ga., who died on Feb. 13 and cast only nine votes in the 110th Congress, is the lone exception.)

    No other caucus of House Republicans or Democrats has maintained such a unified voting bloc over a two-year Congress, according to washingtonpost.com’s vote tracking feature.

    Just for grins, I did a “Yahoo search” of “rubber stamp congress” and got 1.3 million hits from the likes of Glen Greenwald, Firedoglake, Crooks and Liars – none of them refering to the partisanship of the Democrats in this session of Congress, of course. Another search, “partisanship congress” got another 1.1 million hits, again most about the last Congressional session. And one odd one about this session needing MORE partisanship in Congress.

    So I did a search on Washington Post just on the word partisanship – I got 43 hits in the last 60 days. Every one of the articles (except the one I linked above) was about the evils of Republican partisanship.

    I’m just sayin’….

  • Chavez supporters get benefit of media coverage

    (Photos from Venezuela Llora, Venezuela Sangra)

    Jose Ferero from the Washington Post (in a story that I can’t find in the Post, by the way – oops, here it is; h/t VZ News and Views), writes that the anti-Chavez movement is picking up steam;

    But press-freedom groups note that the [RCTV television] station has not been officially sanctioned, nor have its owners or managers been charged with conspiracy against the state. Other private stations that were harshly anti-Chávez but have toned down critical coverage avoided the same fate, as communications Minister William Lara readily acknowledged in an interview broadcast Friday on CNN’s Spanish-language service.

    Polls show that 65 to 80 percent of Venezuelan respondents disagreed with the government’s decision to end RCTV’s concession, though many were simply upset that they wouldn’t be able to see some of their favorite soap operas.

    The widespread dissatisfaction has re-energized an opposition movement that lost much of its momentum after its efforts to recall Chávez were defeated in 2004 and after its decision to boycott parliamentary elections in 2005 left it without representation in the National Assembly.

    60-85% is a pretty significant number in anyone’s book. But to read the news reports today, one might believe the opposite is true. Here is all Deutche Welle reports this morning;

    Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Venezuela’s capital Caracas Saturday in a show of support for President Hugo Chavez. The march follows the president’s controversial closure of an opposition television station, which back in 2002 had openly called for the president’s removal from office. The country’s telecommunications Minister Jesse Chacon said the president was democratizing the country’s broadcast spectrum. The country’s political opposition views the move as a gross violation of press freedoms.

    The protest against Chavez last week happened in every major city in Venezuela, but this support for Chavez was concentrated in Caracas – the capitol. DW merely parrots the Chavez line and calls it news. AFP goes a step beyond the German press and counts “hundreds of thousands”;

    Hundreds of thousands of President Hugo Chavez’s backers Saturday marched in a show of support for his controversial closure of an opposition television station, now an international scandal.

    Supporters of the leftist president marched under his slogan of “democratizing television and radio,” one day after students surprised the government with large anti-Chavez demonstrations demanding freedom of expression.

    “Starting today, the (pro-government) counterattack must be maintained across the country,” Chavez rallied the throng, claiming that a “destabilizing maneuver was afoot to carry out a gentle coup” and topple his government. He did not offer details.

    “If the Venezuelan oligarchy … does not accept this call to live together in peace that we are making, if it keeps on attacking using the things it still controls, it will keep losing those things one by one,” Chavez warned.

    (Editor Note: I noticed APF just changed the story to read “tens of thousands” Odd, huh?)

    I guess “Venezuelan oligarchy” is code for “vast right wing conspiracy”. Associated Press toned down the numbers even further;

    Earlier Saturday, reggaeton music blared and fireworks crackled as thousands of “Chavistas” gathered at an opposition stronghold in wealthy eastern Caracas before converging with other marches in the capital.

    Information Minister Willian Lara said the march would “demonstrate before the world that the non-renewal of (RCTV’s license) … is a democratic conquest,” claiming the private media has been “held ransom by a small economic group.”

    A democratic conquest. Get that? When you can silence your opposition, that’s democratic. From the invisible Washington Post story;

    Michael Shifter, a senior analyst for the Inter-American Dialogue, a policy group in Washington, D.C., that closely follows Venezuela, said he didn’t think [Chavez attacks on the “oligarchy”] would get much traction this time.

    “All of his previous attacks were on the corrupt capitalists, but this goes way beyond that and it touches on Venezuela’s cultural identity,” Shifter said of Chávez. “It’s very hard for him to talk of the rancid oligarchy here. These are university students protesting, not part of the old order.”

    If students took to the streets to protest their president silencing the opposition anywhere else in the world, they’d have the support of the media and the Left here in the US. Just like that first picture above – a single man, shirtless, weaponless holding back the tide of government forces while others rush to his aid – would have been on every frontpage and magazine cover as a symbol of the popular stuggle against a totalitarian government, if only it’d been taken in a protest against a more conservative government.

    APF went on to say that the incident may have isolated Chavez somewhat from anothe Leftist ally;

    However, the struggle now jeopardizes relations with at least one of Chavez’s fellow leftist leaders in South America.

    Brazil’s Senate formally requested on Wednesday that Chavez reconsider his decision to close RCTV.

    Chavez retorted, “The Brazilian Congress should worry about Brazil’s problems,” and accused it of being Washington’s “subordinate.”

    Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended Brazilian lawmakers and told Chavez to mind his own business, a position welcomed in the Brazilian press.

    Lula “did what he had to do to defend Brazil’s independent and democratic principles,” Folha de Sao Paulo editorialized Saturday.

    Ratcheting up the pressure, Lula asked his foreign ministry to call in Venezuela’s Ambassador to Brazil to have him explain Chavez’s response.

    I guess we all have these little victories to cling to for awhile. RDTV (India) published this AP story;

    ”We don’t accept interferences from anybody about internal Venezuelan matters. Absolutely from nobody,” Chavez said to thousands of red-clad supporters on Saturday.

    He also warned that if the ”bourgeoisie of Venezuela” continued their undermining of the ”Bolivarian people of Venezuela, they will continue losing their possessions one by one. One by one,” he said to a roaring crowd.

    Large, sometimes violent protests by students warning of a threat to freedom of expression erupted after his decision to take RCTV off the air.

    Chavez says the outcry is being fomented by government opponents trying to topple his administration.

    He has warned other broadcasters, radio stations and newspapers covering the protests of unspecified sanctions if they continue to ”incite” instability.

    Saturday’s warning took that a step further, warning the private media he could abruptly end their licenses at any moment. 

    He’s threatening the middleclass and the remaining private broadcasters. We probably can’t trust much that comes out of Venezuela in the near future.

    The US Left has been mostly silent on Venezuela. Nancy Pelosi wrote a letter to Chavez announcing her “concern”,  but the Daily Kos had a long post by heathlander describing the Leftist party line (I won’t link to it because Kos doesn’t need my comparably pitiful traffic) in case anyone is tempted stray from the plantation over this loss of civil rights for Venezuelans;

    RCTV, together with three other private media corporations (Globovision, Venevision and Televen), which together control some 90% of the TV market, played a leading role in instigating and supporting the 47-hour coup. These private stations, owned by anti-Chavez billionaires and businessmen, have led an unceasing anti-Chavez campaign since the day he was elected.

    So why didn’t Chavez prosecute those billionaires and businessmen five years ago after he defeated this supposed “coup attempt”? Why did he just let their license expire instead of taking the case through his administrative law judges and jerking their license with proof that they had supported the coup? In our system (admittedly not the Venezuelan system), we don’t deprive citizens of their property without their day in court. The Left constantly tells us that we should use our system of justice and rights to other nations’ citizens (as in Guantanamo) so why aren’t they for imposing our legal protections on Venezuela? If George W. Bush shut down a TV network comparable to RCTV, or let their license expire without a hearing, and defended his actions by claiming the network had plotted his demise, the Left would be apoplectic. So why doesn’t the Left care about this particular group of brown people?

    Well, that’s because Chavez is the next best hope for the Left to re-establish a successful communist dictatorship, since all they’ve had up to this point is Cuba and North Korea – two miserable failures that are starving their inhabitants and are punchlines in more jokes than Brittany Spears. Chavez has the benefit of petro-dollars to finance his workers’ paradise. Although I don’t understand why a truly socialist society would need money – isn’t that th whole point of socialism?

    And besides we all know who’s behind those rich media guys in Venezuela;

     

    The good news, according to VivirLatino is that RCTV is still broadcasting – on the internet.

    I’ve been getting email from readers asking why I’m so focused on this story – because I think we need to support this anti-Chavez movement until they are successful and they get their government back. It’s a cinch that our own government will do nothing, given our history in the region and the fragility of our reputation. Latin America has been so inundated with anti-US propaganda for decades (I’ve watched and read alot of it while studying modern history there and in my travels) that anything we do, as a government, would be labeled “imperialist”. We should encourage Venezuelans to restore Venezuela themselves, though – they have the power and the wherewithall to accomplish this. They just need to know that we support them.

  • Sheehan leaves politics (she says)

    In a piece entitled “Good Riddance Attention Whore” (at DailyKos), Cindy Sheehan claims to be leaving the political stage and retiring to her villa in the south of France (OK, I made that last part up, but…), in some ways I feel for her…no, really. I’m not just saying that. Here, let her tell you why I said that;

    The first conclusion is that I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a “tool” of the Democratic Party.  This label was to marginalize me and my message. How could a woman have an original thought, or be working outside of our “two-party” system?

    However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the “left” started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used. I guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of “right or left”, but “right and wrong.”

    She found out that this nation’s Left can turn on it’s own people faster than a mongoose – something most of us have known all along. But, the Left, in the personage of Maureen Dowd, gave her “absolute moral authority”;

    But [President Bush’s] humanitarianism will remain inhumane as long as he fails to understand that the moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute.

    But that absolute part was less absolute than Ms. Sheehan realized. She learned that the American Left, despite the fact that they claim otherwise, really don’t care about the troops or the troops’ parents – only to the extent that they can use it against Republicans and the current administration.

    Sheehan fell for it, and even in this piece, she chastizes the Republicans for calling her a “”tool” of the Democrats”. Probably the most painful thing for her, is realizing that Republicans were correct. Of course she’ll never admit that we were right, but I think she knows it.

    But some of us understand how she feels at this point, some of us who’ve been Democrats and dreamily drifted towards the Democrats’ siren song, were also awoken to the reality that the Democrats are all about politics and votes – nothing more. There’s nothing altruistic about being a Democrat – you can convince yourself that it’s compassionate, but only to the extent that it keeps Democrat politicians in their positions.

    Look at what they did to Joe Lieberman. Did you really expect them to be different to you, Cindy? In fact, Lieberman threw the pro-Life crowd under the bus so he could be the Democrats VP candidate, and they still dumped him for disagreeing with them ON ONE SINGLE ISSUE.

    But then she loses all of my sympathy in her last line;

    Good-bye America …you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.

    It’s up to you now.

    Um, Cindy, baby, we were around two-hundred or so years before you, I think we’ll make it through the rest without you. With or without your advice. And drop the anti-American crap, it doesn’t play well in Peoria.

    Maybe you should go to Venezuela and hang out with your buddy Chavez, I hear they’re having a big party in the street this week.

  • Gathering of Eagles/Rolling Thunder rally for the troops (Updated)

    Every Memorial Day weekend on Sunday, Rolling Thunder, an organization of mostly Viet Nam veterans, comes to DC for their motorcycle ride from the Pentagon to the Vietnam Memorial. It’s an hours-long parade of thousands of participants from across the country to insure that America doesn’t forget the men and women who died for this country in that unpopular war.

    This year it’s a little different – today they partnered with the newly-formed Gathering of Eagles, which has it’s roots in the internet. When Vietnam veterans felt that the Wall was threatened by anti-protesters back in March of this year, they hastily assembled an internet gathering point and made plans to protect that monument from being defaced. On March 17th, they gathered around the three Vietnam memorials and the Korean War Memorial and lined the protest to the Pentagon. Crowd estimates were about 20,000 pro-troops participants to about 4,000 anti-war protesters.

    I reported on that event and brought you pictures and videos, so I felt it my duty to you and the rest of the nation to bring the same to ya’all this time, too. It doesn’t look like the traditional media is going to cover the event – I didn’t see any journalists there for the three-and-a-half hours I roamed the area. No trucks, no shoulder-carried cameras. Nothing on C-SPAN’s schedule. I remember when they used to cover Rolling Thunder’s event, Brian Lamb himself interviewing participants, but none of that anymore.

    Traditionally, Rolling Thunder gathers to remember the Vietnam veterans, but this year, the day before their customary ride, they partnered with Gathering of Eagles to show their support for the next generation of warriors. There probably weren’t 20,000 this time, but the were a few thousand there, as you can see from the following pictures.

    Parking was no problem, apparently;

    The biggest crowds were at the Vietnam Memorial;

    Patriotism was the theme of the day;

    Here’s a tribute for all of you patriotic motorheads;

    That’s a little too much powerplant for my taste, though.

    Click the “View Show” buttons below for two slide shows of other pics.

    Maybe the crowds weren’t the size of the crowds back in March, but I think veterans have made their point – once again. And apparently, the media doesn’t care. I’ve even been watching Fox News Channel for even a mention of the event – and there’s nothing. Anywhere. If there were this many anti-war protesters, or half as many anti-war protesters, the news trucks and journalists would be swarming all over it.

    Shame on the media for neglecting to give America the whole story.

    UPDATE: Jim Holt at Gateway Pundit reports on the anti-US protest at the West Point graduation and Gathering of Eagles’ counter protest entitled “Battle of Bullhorns; Eagles and Moonbats clash” and Rob at Say Anything reports on the court order that kept ANSWER outside of West Point at “Court: West Point Can Deny Access to Smelly Hippies“. Silent_man wrote a detailed After Action Report of the West Point event on the GOE blog. Urban Infidel has more great pictures of the West Point event.

    Skye has more pictures of the DC event at MidnightBlue. Big Dog reported “Great Day in DC; Not a Moonbat in Sight“.

  • Little Willie Arkin laments noninvite (UPDATED)

    During my nightly perusal of my favorite blogs, I stumbled across this from Blackfive who mentioned a line from an almost forgotten William Arkin, so I went to Arkin’s blog to read the whole thing. He’s still a sniveling little elitist;

    Let’s see if I can do this without insulting either baseball fans or bloggers. Blogging baseball fans, I ask for your forgiveness preemptively.

    I went to a Red Sox game on Saturday, and up above home plate I couldn’t help but notice the press box: five, six, seven tiers of desks, filled with print, radio, television and who knows what other media all reporting every move and anomaly. It dawned on me that there are more reporters covering the Sox, just one baseball team, than cover the Pentagon.

    I’ve been wanting to write about the 2nd Annual MilBlog conference (I wasn’t invited), and did write earlier about the brouhaha over the Pentagon’s supposed new restrictions regarding blogging.

    First of all, let me say that there were alot of people at the Milblog Convention who weren’t invited by name – I was one. I met a guy there who blogs about maritime stuff that I didn’t understand. He was interesting, but he had never been in the military, didn’t know anyone in the military and didn’t blog about the military. He’d just read about the conference and saw there was still a slot open, paid his $40 and went to meet other bloggers. If you wanted to go, William M. Arkin, you could have found a way. But seein’s how it’s Mud Season in Vermont, I’m sure you didn’t want to miss a moment of that.

    And the crybaby way you started this piece hoping you wouldn’t tick off any baseball fans – was that yet another shot at us?

    And the only reason you, and your fellow “journalists” stuck up for Milbloggers recently because you saw it as another opportunity to criticize the Administration and the Pentagon. It’s not like ya’all give a tiny rat’s ass about the military bloggers (you made that quite clear in the first blog I read from your poisoned pen). So this line, from your latest attempt at smoothing ruffled feathers rings hollow;

    The MilBloggers got an extra boost of attention after the news about the Army’s “crackdown” on blogs, with the overheated claim that the new operations security (OPSEC) and bandwidth rules cut off soldiers from their families and restricting people’s freedoms. An extra boost from whom, you ask? From the mainstream media they so seemingly despise….

    Blackfive replied that we only despise you, but I won’t go that far. I despise alot of members of the more traditional media, so, although my list is longer than Blackfive’s list, there are similarities in the content.

    UPDATE: Day-by-day gets into the Arkin-bashing;

  • Gore discovers 20/20 hindsight (Updated)

    Just when you thought it was safe to turn on the TV, Al Gore is back and on book tour for his latest act of public mental masturbation “Assault on Reason” – a more apt title I can not imagine. From ABC News;

    On the one hand, Gore has written an un-nostalgic look back at the previous six years that lays out his case as to how the world might look today had the chads fallen another way — a world where U.S. troops would not be fighting in Iraq, Abu Ghraib would just be a town’s name and the nation would have been better prepared for Hurricane Katrina, global warming, and, yes, perhaps even Sept. 11.

    Funny but I saw an episode of Family Guy last night that touched on the same subject. Without going into detail, Al Gore becomes the President in 2000 and the cast comments on how he hunted down and captured bin Laden himself (bin Laden was hiding out amongst the cast of MadTV) and cars all ran on vegetable oil. I wonder if the show’s writers had a sneak peak at Gore’s book.

    According to Dan Fromkin in the Washington Post Gore claims;

    “‘History will surely judge America’s decision to invade and occupy (Iraq) as a decision that was not only tragic but absurd.’

    “He does not flatly state that Sept. 11 would not have occurred during a Gore administration. But, he writes, ‘Whenever power is unchecked and unaccountable, it almost inevitably leads to mistakes and abuses. In the absence of rigorous accountability, incompetence flourishes.’”

    Look, Al, you and your country-ass hick master had eight years to do something about al Qaida and Hussein, you did nothing – only because you needed something to distract the American people from your constant failures and they made nice, easy targets at which to fire off cruise missiles. And finally, when they did strike, we had no choice – thanks to you, dimbulb. And what did the Clinton Administration do to protect New Orleans from Katrina. Have you forgotten that you were Vice President for eight years?

    As for the title, I’m sure that everyone will agree that you assault reason just by writing your crybaby crap – thinking that any rational person would have the slightest interest in what you would have done if only we’d had your hindsight as foresight.

    I had a girlfriend like Al Gore once – she never let me go. To this day, she still emails me after 35 years and tells me how wonderful our life would have been if I’d married her instead of my wife of 30 years. And then she complains that I don’t answer her email.

    Al Gore, you’re America’s pathetic ex-girlfriend.

    UPDATE: Ben Smith at Politico has a “User’s Guide to Gore Fever”.

    A fawning EJ Dionne professes his non-sexual man-crush on Al Gore in his Washington Post column “Free to be Al Gore“;

    Gore, to his credit, won’t talk about Florida, but I will. Whatever flaws he has, Gore suffered through an extreme injustice with great dignity. His revenge is to have been right about a lot of things: right about the power of the Internet, right about global warming and right about Iraq.

    I guess it’s easy to be declared right when it’s impossible to prove whether it’s true or not. Apparently, even some on the Left aren’t buying Dionne’s deranged hug-fest.

  • Bye, Lanny

    Lanny Davis, the only Democrat on the president’s privacy board, resigned yesterday. The Wall Street Journal reports;

    The lone Democrat on a White House privacy board has abruptly resigned, citing disagreements with the Bush administration over the board’s role in protecting civil liberties.

    Lanny Davis, a Washington lawyer and former Clinton White House counsel, said this week he no longer believed the five-member board was sufficiently independent to provide robust oversight of controversial government surveillance programs.

    Leaders of the Sept. 11 commission pointedly criticized the board last week for not doing its job and questioned many of the findings in the board’s 49-page annual report to Congress.

    His chief complaint, according to the Washington Post was revisons the White House made to the commission’s report;

    The Bush administration made more than 200 revisions to the first report of a civilian board that oversees government protection of personal privacy, including the deletion of a passage on anti-terrorism programs that intelligence officials deemed “potentially problematic” intrusions on civil liberties, according to a draft of the report obtained by The Washington Post.

    One of the panel’s five members, Democrat Lanny J. Davis, resigned in protest Monday over deletions ordered by White House lawyers and aides. The changes came after the congressionally created Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board had unanimously approved the final draft of its first report to lawmakers, renewing an internal debate over the board’s independence and investigative power.

    Some of the changes sought by the administration ultimately were reversed, and some members of the panel said they were not opposed to the others.

    I wonder where Mr. Davis came down on the heavily-edited 9/11 Commission’s report. I wonder how upset he was over Jamie Gorelick‘s membership on that Commission. I wonder if Mr. Davis railed against the Able Danger group not being allowed to testify to the 9/11 Commission.

    This is just another attempt to discredit the Administration. The American public has been misled by Democrats since the PATRIOT Act was enacted on every measure that has worked successfully to protect us from another terrorist attack and now Lanny Davis has thrown himself on another grenade for Leftism.

  • Happy Mother’s Day

    To my mother, my wife (mother of four), my oldest daughter (a widowed single mother) and my youngest daughter (a mother-to-be) I wish ya’all the happiest of Mothers’ Day.

    It’s really hard to politicize a day like today, but of course, the Left can do it at the drop of a hat. So I thought I’d join in, too. 

    Code Pink is doing it today. Using the Mother’s Day theme, they’ll be in front of the White House demanding an end to the war in the name of mothers. I went last year, but I think I’ll avoid it this year. Mostly because I have trouble being near true hypocrits.

    There was a group of women last year holding a giant banner that proclaimed “Mothers Against the War”. When I asked them how many were actually mothers, out of the eight, there was only one – the other seven happily pointed at her as if she gave the banner (and the group) some credibility. When I asked her if she had a child in the military, at first she answered that yes, she did. I said “Really?” She answered sheepishly that she didn’t. So, what the banner should have really said was “Grotesque, barren old bags against the war”.

    A guy approached me with his three-year-old daughter on his shoulders and screamed “Do you want to send her[his daughter] to war?” I answered that I’d spent twenty years in the Army, that my son is in the Air Force and (at the time) my niece was on her way to Iraq in the Army Reserves – and that her Marine husband had already done a tour over there. I added that my family had done more to secure his daughter’s future than he would ever do. He shuffled away speechless. So that was enough for me - the Park Police escorted me from Lafayette Park

    The good old Washington Post takes an opportunity to politicize the day, too. Somehow, we should all be excited that motherhood can be subsidized by the government. In an oddly titled piece called Pushing the Motherhood Cause (as if motherhood needed it’s cause pushed), they trumpet an organization that purports to support “a motherhood agenda”;

    They are an outgrowth of MomsRising.org, founded a year ago to bring mothers together as a force for change in public policies that affect their everyday lives.

    More than 90,000 people have registered, galvanizing around six main issues: family leave, flex time, health insurance, child care, fair wages and children’s activities, such as better after-school programs. Their proposals are not new, but together they create a “motherhood” agenda that has attracted a fresh enthusiasm.

    “They have struck a nerve, or maybe they have just sharpened the debate,” said Love, 37, who said her generation of friends is consumed by the tug between work and family. “Literally, these issues are all we ever talk about.”

    Of course, their first legislative victory was getting paid family leave passed in Washington State. What an accomplishment – government-subsidized sloth. An unfunded mandate on employers, another enticement for mothers to abandon their families to government child-care facilities. Another burden on taxpayers which will induce even more mothers to abandon their families just to pay the tax increase and the increased cost to employers.

    Maybe if more mothers stayed home and raised their families in the first place, there wouldn’t be need to inflict their personal problems on the rest of society.

    But the Washington Post decides to give us a blow-by-blow of  an activist mothers’ party of former Georgetown University grad students;

    The United States lags behind most of the world, the narrator said, and its lack of benefits puts it in a class with several third-world nations, a statistic based on a Harvard University study.

    Several women gasped.

    The film said the No. 1 reason highly paid women leave the workforce is to spend time with their families. It went on with stories about child-care problems and family health-care calamities.

    Funny how the US lags behind the rest of the world in every Leftist activist cause, but we have the strongest, most resilient economy in the world, isn’t it? I wonder if there’s a correlation there.

    And of course women leave the workforce to be mothers and spend time with their families – what the Hell is wrong with that? Of course, what’s wrong with it is that it makes the hairy-legged, Leftist man-haters feel guilty about their empty lives.

    Of course, there was no surprise when I read;

    MomsRising stands out for its working-mother focus and also as an example of new-style, online community organizing. Co-founder Joan Blades also helped launch the liberal group MoveOn.org.

    Leave it to the Washington Post to glamorize liberal, absent-parenthood – on Mothers’ Day.