Roll Call has just reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked all female Democratic members of Congress “to attend a hastily called meeting Wednesday morning.”
She hasn’t said what the meeting is about, but presumably it concerns passage of the health-care bill. At a guess, it may be the meeting where she admits that she doesn’t have the votes for the bill without an abortion ban to lure in Bart Stupak’s coalition.
At least I hope that’s what the meeting is about. There’s something weird and off-putting about inviting only women, however—since I doubt Pelosi plans to reenact the scene where Lysistrata explains her political strategy to Cleonice.
March 16th, 2010 | 10:55 pm
[...] Bottum at First Things adds: At a guess, it may be the meeting where she admits that she doesn’t have the votes for the [...]
March 17th, 2010 | 3:56 am
maybe women have a better plan
March 17th, 2010 | 5:02 am
If Pelosi were to successfully encourage her fellow Democratic congresswomen to use the same bargaining chip that Lysistrata did, men everywhere would breath a sigh of relief.
March 17th, 2010 | 5:03 am
Oops, sorry; I meant “breathe” a sigh of relief above. :)
March 17th, 2010 | 9:44 am
Thronging tambourines to you, Jody Bottum, for the Lysistrata analogy. And for that lovely, useful link.
If we are lucky, the good women will “lie in bed instead of coming.”
March 17th, 2010 | 8:19 pm
I wonder why this appeared nowhere but in J. Bottum’s little note. If Pelosi lacks the votes, it’s a sensational story, and the best news on this subject in a long time. How appropriate that intransigence on abortion should sink the Dems’ ship. All “right”-thinking persons need to honor the Democratic holdouts like Stupak, a latter-day Lincoln.
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