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WATCH: Elizabeth Warrens Furious Response to Republicans Who Are Trying to Roll Back Womens Rights
Posted on Aug 5, 2015
Did you fall down, hit your head and think you woke up in the 1950s? begins the Massachusetts senator angry address to her Republican colleagues on the Senate floor Monday during an attempt to defund Planned Parenthood.
Elizabeth Warren goes on to list all the ways conservatives have been trying to restrict womens access to legal health services in the past few years alone. Pointing out that its no coincidence that the vote on federal funds for the non-profit was scheduled the same week as Republican candidates are preparing for their big debate on Fox News, she says, This is an all-out effort to build support to take a womans right to control her own body and access to medical care she may need this affects all of us, whatever your age, wherever you may live.
really really GOOD:
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/watch_elizabeth_warrens_furious_response_republicans_womens_rights_20150805
IDemo
(16,926 posts)phantom power
(25,966 posts)Gothmog
(145,553 posts)7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)cutroot
(876 posts)The republicans just think of all of this as theater.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)True enough. Shaming them does no good because those without shame cannot be shamed. They don't get it and never will.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)They don't get it because they don't want to "get it".
They do think of this as theater, but to the rest of us, we think of just like Elizabeth does. How can we STILL be fighting for a woman's right to control her own body in 2015!
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)...who voted in those republicans. If she can shame the blue dogs, then she can alter the Dems towards being more progressive. And if she can shame the voters, then she can get dems in to finally replace all those republicans who are blithely taking away the rights of those who voted for them, as well as those who did not.
As you say, there's no point trying to shame the Repukes. They're bought and paid for and aren't going to budge. But you can nudge those others to seeing that it's in their best interest NOT to vote with those Repukes...or for them.
UTUSN
(70,740 posts)TBF
(32,090 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)IHateTheGOP
(1,059 posts)IHateTheGOP
(1,059 posts)liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)Every time they proclaim the want to take the country back, that is how far they want to take it.
Facility Inspector
(615 posts)1360s?
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)calimary
(81,459 posts)Every one of these damn assholes trying to roll back our reproductive rights - is a man. Every one of these bedroom busybodies up on their podiums pontificating about the need to chip away at the access to contraceptives and health management and family planning and leaving women high and dry - is a MAN.
It. Takes. A. WOMAN.
SnakeEyes
(1,407 posts)What's scary is that many millions of women are also anti-choice and are helping lead the charge to defund PP. Joni Ernst is a good example. She, among other women, couldn't wait to rush out and announce the need following the video release.
kag
(4,079 posts)and I think I could watch it over and over. It's a thing of beauty. SHE is a thing of beauty, and I LOVE her.
niyad
(113,552 posts)Hekate
(90,793 posts)elias49
(4,259 posts)Well written and perfectly delivered.
And I'm stuck with Sen Ayotte here in NH. Can't speak into a microphone without her voice quavering. Perhaps it's a physical disability and if so, I apologize in advance.
But I tend to believe that she's simply not ready for prime time and/or chronically insincere.
Bravo Sen Warren!
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)I love me some Liz Warren! One of the best senators in the world! Thank you MA, for electing her!
pnwmom
(108,994 posts)Cosmocat
(14,572 posts)you can count on one hand the number of Ds in congress with a spine and the willingness and ability to say these kinds of things.
No fucking way you pull her from a senate seat for a cabinet post ...
None ...
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)More Democrats with spines is needed!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)that my vote helped to put her in office. Go Elizabeth!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Or is this strictly a progressive fight?
Oldtimeralso
(1,937 posts)BainsBane
(53,066 posts)nxylas
(6,440 posts)I'm not in a position to watch video right now.