GOP taps its top woman, mom of three, for Obama rebuttal

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By Carrie Dann, Political Reporter, NBC News

Alex Wong / Getty Images, file
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., speaks as Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner, R-OH, and House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., (L) listen during a news briefing after a House Republican Conference meeting January 14, 2014 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

After hearing from the leader of the free world at Tuesday’s State of the Union address, Americans will hear a rebuttal from a woman unfamiliar to many of them.
Most of the national television audience hasn’t heard of Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the highest-ranking Republican woman in Washington, D.C. and the standard-bearer tasked with delivering the GOP response to President Barack Obama’s address. But Republicans hope that she’ll make an impression with her unapologetically conservative message, her journey from humble origins to the U.S. Capitol, and her family-friendly biography as a busy mother of three young children.
All three of her kids were born while she was serving in Congress; her eldest, Cole, was diagnosed with Down syndrome shortly after his birth in 2007. The way she balances her life at home and her career in Washington is something that her supporters say will appeal to voters, and most importantly – women

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1. Let me guess....Suzy Stepford?

[kelliekat44]

2. She may be a good person to put out front but this act is so transparent that many women will

be disgusted because they will know that the GOP will never change their views on women.

[Wilms]

3. "she balances her life at home and her career in Washington"???

Absent from Eastern Washington

McMorris Rogers made more trips to New York and in North Carolina raising money for other Republicans than she did back to Eastern Washington for public appearances with her constituents. She also made trips to New Hampshire, Ohio, Indiana, Las Vegas, Florida, Colorado, and California.

...Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ voting record ranks with some of the most conservative in Washington D.C. She has helped plot the on-going Wall Street takeover, undermining of Medicare, and corporate control of America with House Majority leader John Boehner, Minority Whip Eric Cantor, and Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence. McMorris helped do the same with the sequester, which forced automatic cuts to vital services and “slashed $86 million from family planning and reproductive health care for poor women.” McMorris Rodgers has seldom wavered from the Republican Party line, include her vote for the Paul Ryan budget to destroy Medicare. She voted with the Republican leadership 97% of the time in the 111th congress while casting 1654 votes. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ voting record is so conservative that the American Conservative Union scored her as voting with them 96% percent of the time. Also, the Club for Growth scored her as voting for them 94% of the time, Family Research Council 100% of the time, the National Taxpayers Union 89% of the time, and the National Chamber of Commerce 100% of the time (see WikiPedia).

Her official House website and her entry in Wikipedia do not list any policy achievements either (as of the date of this article, Monday, July 15, 2012). However, she does claim a few political accomplishments on her House website (also as of the date of this article, Monday, July 15, 2012). She was successful at improving “House Republicans’ online influence and engagement.” She states, “the results speak for themselves.”

“In January 2009, only 30 percent of House Republicans were on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.”

“Today, more than 90 percent of House Republicans are on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.”

Really Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers? Twitter? Our country is facing a health care crisis, joblessness, and the worst recession in over a half a century, and you made it a priority to increase the number of Republicans on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Wow. T

http://we-can-do-better.org/

[MrScorpio]

4. Oh, this will be entertaining.

She's not one of the super-geniuses of the GOP, "Suzy Stepford" is an apt description. Basically, her only purpose is to put a non-male face in the crowd, while gaggles of GOPers spin lots of misogynistic BS.

She has all the charisma of a rented U-Haul van.

The audience will barely notice that she's on television. She also has the interesting abilility of coming across as a consummate liar, but yet has the inability to convey those lies convincingly.

Her screen presence should be a painfully awkward exercise in Republican futility to sell their case with any effectiveness.

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5. Boehner's Beard

I call her Boehner's Beard because for the past couple of years she is the woman who walks through the rotunda with him when the media shots B roll for the evening news.

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6. Let me get this straight: It takes one Stepford Wife and two Tea Party idiots to rebut Obama?

Guess they couldn't get Chris Christie.

Republicans are in trouble. They have no leader.

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7. You know what's interesting? The double standard Republican women place on others...

When it comes to THEIR families, they are "real" women who "balance life and home and career". But then they like to tell other women that they should stay home and take care of the family, submit to their husbands, not go out and be career-oriented.

This is something that has always baffled me.

For Republican women that we see on the television: Ann Coulter, Laura Ingram (both, to my knowledge, have never been married and do not have children); Michelle Malkin, Mary Madlin (sp?), etc.

All these so-called conservative women embrace their careers. They write books. They are breadwinners, whether they are married or not. And you're hear them say how proud they are of their careers and what they have accomplished.

However, they tell OTHER women--especially successful Democratic or liberal women--that they should eschew their careers, or that they careers should come after family and marriage. Or, they'll look down on successful business women; or, fight against equal pay and that kind of thing.

So here we have this woman, Rodgers, who the Corporate Media will hold up as a shining example of what a working mother should be--much like they treated Sarah Palin at first. She'll play up her son's Down Syndrome and use that for sympathy. She'll say what we expect her to say--that Washington's broken. They'll lie and say that she cares more about what happens in her district than she does in D.C., yadda, yadda, yadda. And she'll look down on other women for not being just like her and her family, living in the suburbs; being wealthy, no having a care in the world. Why can't other women make it like she has?

These Republican women are the absolute worst! They are just as bad as black conservatives, really. Simply awful.

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8. What? A woman, earning $174,000 a year, and she can't control her libido and

has 3 kids, all born when she's supposed to be working?