USA Today provides one of the most idiotic pieces I have seen to date on midterm election news as they headline with "Elections are likely to trim number of women in Congress."
They start off talking about Blanche Lincoln, Arkansas Democrat, who is fighting for her political life against Republican challenger John Boozman.
The two-term senator starts one recent day making her pitch to a dozen folks in Mount Ida (population 936) before speeding to a lunch hosted by the Pike County Democratic Women's Committee in Glenwood. She drops by the Murfreesboro City Hall to honor the local high school Quiz Bowl team, stops at a chicken-processing plant to shake workers' hands and then — as twilight falls and the marching band tunes up — works the crowd at a tailgate party before the football game at Nashville High School.
At nearly every stop, her vote for the sweeping law that overhauled the health care system draws hostile questions, including from former supporters.
Smith and friends filled dozens of paper bags with homemade sandwiches and cookies, hoping to draw a noontime crowd to hear Lincoln speak in Glenwood. But the turnout is small, and most of the lunches go uneaten.
"When I go around the county, what I hear is, 'Oh, I did vote for Blanche Lincoln before, but I'm not this time because she voted for health care,' " Smith says during the question-and-answer session, her singsong mimic making her exasperation clear. Lincoln launches an 18-minute defense of the law that expands Medicaid, imposes new regulations on the insurance industry and mandates that in 2014 nearly every American must have health insurance coverage.
When she's finished, John Plyler, 53, remains unconvinced.
If Congress wanted to control health care costs, he says, the bill should have done more to curb medical lawsuits. He's worried about the legislation's effect on the lumber yard he owns, which has 37 employees.
The bill doesn't affect small businesses with fewer than 50 workers, Lincoln tells him. "I know what it's going to cost me from what the Chamber (of Commerce) and the NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business) told me," he replies. The groups criticize the law as an overreach of government power.
He voted for Lincoln six years ago, Plyler says, but this time he's casting his ballot for Boozman.
Emphasis mine.
Then, H/T Hot Air, we see the photo USA Today uses is of Barbara Boxer, California Democrat, yet contrary to their headline, Boxer's challenger is Carly Fiorina, ...ummmmm... a woman!!
Hot Air points out the helpful captioning though which informs readers that Boxer has "one of the most liberal voting records."
I don't care if you are a woman or a man, if you start voting for an agenda that is opposed by a majority of Americans, as Obamacare was and still is, you deserve to have your butt tossed out into the street.
Congress works for the voters that elect them, Democrat or Republican, and when those politicians get into office and decide they no longer have to listen to their constituents and instead decide that party is more important than those they were elected to represent, they need to be replaced and that is what elections are all about.
This issue of male or female and how many of each are holding office should have no bearing whatsoever on elections.
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