So much for keeping our messaging straight about the actual damages that the Republican Party are perpetuating upon women all over the country,
especially when one of our own, a Democrat, gets up and says he doesn't believe there's a war on women by Republicans.
Since 2011, Republicans have pushed various bills that would restrict access to abortion and women’s health services. The DNC chairwoman cited those efforts as well as the GOP’s opposition to legislation establishing equal pay for women as evidence that the party’s policies are antithetical to women’s interests.
When Cleaver, a United Methodist pastor, lit into the GOP’s claim that President Obama is anti-religion, social conservative Ralph Reed retorted, “Congressman, is it similarly wrong, then, for Democrats to say that the Republican Party is engaged in a war on women? Is that wrong?”
“Yes, that is wrong. And I’ve never said it, not one time,” Cleaver responded. “I condemn it. If it’s a Democrat, if it’s my cousin, it’s wrong.”
Oh, bullshit. It is NOT wrong to say that the Republican Party is engaged in a war on women! All one has to do is take a look at the headlines in the news to see what's happening in states all over the country that are dominated by white, rich old Republican males and their female helpers against women and their families.
Constituents in Rep. Cleaver's district need to call him up, and give him a talking-to about what's happening to his female constituents and women in this country. His phone should ring off the hook for making such a stupid statement like this to placate Ralph Reed, the very guy who made a racist remark about President Obama earlier this week.