The year of the vagina

That’s my ruder rendition of the headline of this bit of feminist triumphalism in the Albany Times Union on how women are taking over New York state politics:

ALBANY — Liz Krueger, a Manhattan Democrat in charge of recruiting candidates to expand her party’s majority in the state Senate, had a simple message for the crowd of party brass, labor leaders, lobbyists and political consultants: “I believe this is actually the year of the woman.”

They all clapped, including U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — who was being feted at the June 14 “Women for Gillibrand” luncheon of Caesar salads and chocolate mousse at the Crowne Plaza — and Ellen Malcolm, the founder of the national group EMILY’s List, which funnels money to female Democratic candidates.

As did three other women in the room: Didi Barrett, Susan Savage and Joanne Yepsen. The three are part of a class of 10 women challenging state Senate Republican incumbents — all of them older men — and join 10 women already in the chamber. Eight of them are Democrats.

You hear that, you old white men? The new wave of gender equality is washing over the craggy mountains and depucelated forests of the Empire State! The tyranny of the phallus has finally come to an end! All hail the glorious New Girl Order!

Eric Blankenbaker, a spokesman for the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, said that in a year in which Democrats — who control all the levers in Albany, including the Senate — are running a slate to bring a “fresh perspective” to Albany.

But why so many women running now, and why are Democrats — anxious to grow their razor-thin 32-30 majority in the Senate — turning to them as insurgents?

“The guys kind of screwed things up a bit for all these years, and maybe they’re realizing that,” said Liz Abzug, founder of the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, an organization named after her mother, a former congresswoman. “When you see now how it’s fallen apart, and how nothing passes through, and you see the three guys in control, it shows that you’re not moving forward. We’re not moving. So why not? It’s a perfect time for women to seize the reins.”

The shoddy state of journalism, revealed! Here Bella Abzug is described as merely “a former congresswoman,” which is like describing Charles Manson as a cult leader – technically true but so inadequate it boggles the mind how the person who used it could be so pig-ignorant. Abzug was one of the worst women’s libbers of the 70′s, part of the same class of man-hating Jewish feminists like Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem who spent their lives taking a wrecking ball to American gender relations. Hell, she even LOOKED evil. These are the people who report the news, folks. Take a REALLY good look at how far we have fallen.

And I love this feminist meme, being constantly broadcast through the misandrist media, that masculinity and manliness are at fault for the state of things. Masculinity, the very thing that the government-media complex has spent the past two decades trying to crush in all its forms, is somehow responsible for the fact that a state with a bloated public sector, a shrinking tax base, and a Byzantine governmental structure can’t pay its bills. Plus no ever points out that the women who usually go into politics tend to be rather masculine themselves. Take a look at Stephanie Miner, the mayor of my hometown of Syracuse, for starters. You could cut glass with that manjaw! Kinda blunts the feminine influence if the only females around have bigger clits then the men have cocks.

Indeed. A poll released last week found 47 percent of voters rated the Legislature’s approach to the state budget — now 109 days late — an “F.” When asked if they would re-elect their current state senator, only 30 percent of voters said yes while 52 percent preferred “someone else.” Additionally, top Democratic officials in the chamber are being investigated and former Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno was sentenced to prison after his conviction last year on federal corruption charges.

What a crock. The voters in this state are rucking fetarded. They talk about being fed up with the government and voting the bums out in every election every two years, yet somehow 99 percent of the Senate and Assembly incumbents manage to win their races every single time. Aside from one or two marginal Republican seats flipping to Democratic control in each cycle, everything remains the same. I’ll believe change is coming to Albany when I actually see it.

The thinking is that women — who do not hold positions of power in the budget process — could do better.

“I will just jump to the conclusion now: If there were more women in the state Legislature, we wouldn’t need to be doing a budget extender today or even fighting about it,” Krueger said in June. “Because we’d have had the common sense to know ‘It’s going to be a lousy budget this year, we don’t have any money, but we would have gotten it done long before today.’ Because women have a lot of common sense.”

Savage, currently the chairwoman of the Schenectady County Legislature, agreed.

“I think the skills that I have as a parent and as a chair of the Legislature would give me the ability to try to work with people when I get to the state Legislature,” Savage, a mother of nine, said. “I think probably as a woman and as a mother it’s something that I do all the time, so it comes very naturally to me, to get people to work together to get things done.”

Yes, the “common sense” and “maternal instincts” of women are going to end political gridlock that has existed in Albany since Benedict Arnold tried to invade Quebec. We haven’t heard that one before.

Savage is running against Sen. Hugh Farley, R-Niskayuna, a well-financed incumbent who has served for three decades. She thinks voters will focus on her record more than her gender in November.

Blankenbaker said gender played a part in candidate recruitment, but explained it this way: “We saw that in New York state, representation especially among women has been lacking. You have a population that at this point has been 51 to 49, and we need to bring this representation to Albany. Because historically, it hasn’t been there.”

Nice to see that the feminasties still have their castrati spokesmouths to create a facade of gender harmony. But could it be that women are uninterested in being politicians for the same reason men are disinterested in being nurses? Could it be that the sexes are – GASP – different?

According to the Center for Women in Politics at Rutgers University, New York ranks 24th in the nation for the percentage of women in its upper legislative house. (New Hampshire ranks first; women hold more than half its Senate seats.) Researchers at the center additionally found in a 2009 report that women need to be encouraged to run.

“Because women are so much less likely than men to have planned to run, far fewer of these women would probably be in state legislatures today were it not for the encouragement they received,” the report said.

Blankenbaker also was taking a shot at Republicans, who controlled the Senate for 40 years before losing the majority to Democrats in 2008. There are four Republican women running for Senate seats: two incumbents and two challengers, one of whom is facing a primary against Assemblyman Greg Ball.

Nooooo! Women really aren’t interested in entering a male discipline without being dragged kicking and screaming into it? This is a hatefact, a crime against our egalitarian utopia, to be explained away with a mess of rationalizations and fabrications!

“New Yorkers care less about the gender of their candidates than they do about what those candidates will do when they get into office,” said Scott Reif, a spokesman for the Senate Republican Campaign Committee. “Will they raise taxes and spend more than the state can afford, as Democrats have done over the last two years? We don’t believe voters are going to reward the Democrat dysfunction in Albany by electing more Democrats, regardless of their gender.”

The inability of state Republicans to field decent candidates or run campaigns says otherwise.

Democrats seem to think differently, and are looking toward a larger picture. At the luncheon, Gillibrand lamented that she is one of only 17 women in the U.S. Senate, and then mentioned the three candidates before her by name.

“It really matters, because the pipeline for women is very short,” Gillibrand, said. “Please do everything you can to support them.”

My sweet Gilly, thou art a sellout.

I think it was The Fifth Horseman who noted that feminist, white-knighting propaganda has been on the upswing in the media since the beginning of the year. I fully expect we’ll see more misandrist, female-worshipping nonsense like this for the foreseeable future. We’ve got a LONG way to go, friends.

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