Women
If you're a chick like me, you have a theory.
It goes a little something like this: men are fucking up the world. You've had your chance, now step aside and let us clean up your mess. Shouldn't take too long. Oh, and shut your damn pie holes while you're at it.
We don't get a lot of chance to test this theory because men, tenacious gits that they are, cling to power. But things are changing, and if I were you I'd make nice to the women you know, because you never know where this will go.
First we've got Nancy Pelosi.
I have a little bit of a girl-crush on Madame Speaker. She is the closest a woman has ever been to president, and she's pretty fucking close. Two bullets (not that I'm advocating, mind you) and she's there. So that fills me with gyno-pride. More important is that she is kicking some serious goddamned ass. That first 100 hour agenda? Did it in half the time. Whip the Dems in line? Done. Come off smart and together and assured? Done. Nancy is getting things done and making it look easy, and she is sure as hell not backing down from Chimpy and his goons. So here's to you, Madame Speaker. Pelosi '07.
And then there's this other woman. My senator, in fact.
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
How do you solve a problem like Hillary? I'm not her biggest fan. I like her as my senator -- I think she's done a bang-up job at putting NY interests first. I know that given the congress and the president she's had, the amount of progressive legislation she'd be able to pass is exactly nil. But I admit it -- I am suspicious of her DLC triangulating hawkishness. I can forgive her the war vote -- if you're lied to and given bad information, you'll tend to make bad decisions. I want her to apologize for it and make amends, sure. But the war vote itself is not a deal-breaker for me.
It's just that there are so many compromises when it comes to Hil. The biggest of all being that I didn't think she could get elected, and no matter what else I want in this world, what I really, really want is a Democratic White House. And thus my antipathy (or ambivilence, or something in between) towards HRC had a lot to do with my fear that she would steam-roll through the primaries (becaue damn! she has a politcal MACHINE behind her. That woman can raise money like no one you have ever seen) and then be crucified in the general, and we would have President McCain and I would have to move to Holland.
But.
Looking at her this last week since she announced, and reading about her, and thinking about it and all I had this Moment. This moment where I just thought to myself, "she could do it." There's something about her. It's not just that she's smart as hell, or that she's had more shit thrown at her than anyone living and still smells pretty clean, or that she's got the world's most popular politician (save Nelson Mandela, I suppose) at her beck and call. It's just that she seems, I don't know how to describe it -- almost Presidential.
Just remember -- the whole country doesn't have to vote for her. Only the states that went Gore (plus New Hampshire, which is currently bright cobalt blue). Because (and this is another post) fuck the South - the West is where it's at. So Hillary isn't my first choice (Gore/Obama -- just try to think of a way to beat that one. I don't think it can be done) but if it happens, if she can do it, if she does do it, if we have a woman president?
Total girlgasm.
It goes a little something like this: men are fucking up the world. You've had your chance, now step aside and let us clean up your mess. Shouldn't take too long. Oh, and shut your damn pie holes while you're at it.
We don't get a lot of chance to test this theory because men, tenacious gits that they are, cling to power. But things are changing, and if I were you I'd make nice to the women you know, because you never know where this will go.
First we've got Nancy Pelosi.
I have a little bit of a girl-crush on Madame Speaker. She is the closest a woman has ever been to president, and she's pretty fucking close. Two bullets (not that I'm advocating, mind you) and she's there. So that fills me with gyno-pride. More important is that she is kicking some serious goddamned ass. That first 100 hour agenda? Did it in half the time. Whip the Dems in line? Done. Come off smart and together and assured? Done. Nancy is getting things done and making it look easy, and she is sure as hell not backing down from Chimpy and his goons. So here's to you, Madame Speaker. Pelosi '07.
And then there's this other woman. My senator, in fact.
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
How do you solve a problem like Hillary? I'm not her biggest fan. I like her as my senator -- I think she's done a bang-up job at putting NY interests first. I know that given the congress and the president she's had, the amount of progressive legislation she'd be able to pass is exactly nil. But I admit it -- I am suspicious of her DLC triangulating hawkishness. I can forgive her the war vote -- if you're lied to and given bad information, you'll tend to make bad decisions. I want her to apologize for it and make amends, sure. But the war vote itself is not a deal-breaker for me.
It's just that there are so many compromises when it comes to Hil. The biggest of all being that I didn't think she could get elected, and no matter what else I want in this world, what I really, really want is a Democratic White House. And thus my antipathy (or ambivilence, or something in between) towards HRC had a lot to do with my fear that she would steam-roll through the primaries (becaue damn! she has a politcal MACHINE behind her. That woman can raise money like no one you have ever seen) and then be crucified in the general, and we would have President McCain and I would have to move to Holland.
But.
Looking at her this last week since she announced, and reading about her, and thinking about it and all I had this Moment. This moment where I just thought to myself, "she could do it." There's something about her. It's not just that she's smart as hell, or that she's had more shit thrown at her than anyone living and still smells pretty clean, or that she's got the world's most popular politician (save Nelson Mandela, I suppose) at her beck and call. It's just that she seems, I don't know how to describe it -- almost Presidential.
Just remember -- the whole country doesn't have to vote for her. Only the states that went Gore (plus New Hampshire, which is currently bright cobalt blue). Because (and this is another post) fuck the South - the West is where it's at. So Hillary isn't my first choice (Gore/Obama -- just try to think of a way to beat that one. I don't think it can be done) but if it happens, if she can do it, if she does do it, if we have a woman president?
Total girlgasm.
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