Lamont over Lieberman is a victory for women

[donsu]

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=21235


Below the belt: That's not morality, that's sexism
Lamont over Lieberman is a victory for women


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Actually they voted for Ned Lamont and against Joe Lieberman, whose progressive voting record had earned him respect and kept him in the senate for 18 years. But the last few years he hasn't lived up to that record. What has Lieberman done to offend women? Let's start with his facilitating the confirmation of both of George Bush's anti-woman, anti-civil-rights Supreme Court justices, and depriving his Senate colleagues of the only way to defeat John Roberts and Sam Alito.

His role in the "Gang of 14" was directly responsible for the confirmation of three of the most Neanderthal circuit court judges in history: Bush appointees Priscilla Owens, Janice Rogers Brown, and William Pryor. And Lieberman's gang was also key to ensuring there could not be an effective filibuster of either Roberts or Alito. Already their votes on the Court have shown them to be the hard-right justices their past records portended.

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He also voted for bankruptcy legislation that was a multi-billion dollar giveaway to big financial institutions while making it harder for women to collect past due child support, and harder for families struck by catastrophe to make a new start. Meanwhile, huge corporations (like Delta Airlines) are permitted to walk away from their debts—their employee pensions for example.

Perhaps the final blow was Lieberman's blithe "short ride" comment about access to the morning-after pill (also known as EC) that would keep a rape survivor from becoming pregnant by the rapist. You might think that providing actual treatment to a rape survivor would be a no-brainer, but when asked by reporters whether Catholic hospitals should be allowed to refuse EC to rape victims in the emergency room, he agreed, saying that "in Connecticut, it shouldn't take more than a short ride to get to another hospital." That is just so wrong in so many ways that I can't begin to count them.

-snip- snip talks about sexist drs., pharms., who to vote for that are pro women, etc.

There are life and death issues at stake for women, and for the country, in this election cycle. Stay tuned for a look at notable House races in the next Below the Belt.
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Lieberman should have known better then to have scorned women

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Lieberman became a shill for the republicans, and they kicked his ass out.

Pure & simple. The worst of it was Iraq and Social Security, but there was a lot more too.