Women saved the Affordable Care Act.
Women Senators and the countless women who have been deluging Congress with phone calls and emails. (86% of these contacts were from women according to Cecile Richards.)
http://www.gq.com/story/women-saved-the-affordable-care-act
At around 1:30 in the morning, after he was sure that he finally had the attention of the Senate clerk and of his nervous, exhausted colleagues who had been watching his every move, John McCain dramatically plunged his outstretched arm downwards, finally sealing the fate of Mitch McConnell's "skinny repeal" bill in a gesture that had all the drama of a WWE heel turn. It was a wild, shocking moment that drew gasps from the gallery, and the only reason it mattered at all is because, from the very beginning of this debacle of an effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, two women Republican senators—Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska—never gave a fucking inch.
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in the Health Care debate in many ways. They've been held out, and yes many have stayed out, of the discussion for far too long.
Repubs will be in trouble if women start exerting their power politically. But I suspect the country will be in far greater shape if they do.
