NOW Draws A Line In The Sand

The Tennessee chapter of NOW is aflame with trepidation regarding the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor. With her gone, their over-riding fear is that President Bush will replace her with someone who will return women to the days when they were unable to vote, were allowed only the job of housework and cooking, and were kept in an eternal state of barefootedness and pregnancy.

Oh ya...they are also worried about their right to abortions, currently the most popular choice for birth control among NOW members, and Bush economic policies, which are...somehow...disproportionately oppressive.

Dempsey wants to focus on attracting younger members and opposing President Bush's economic agenda, which she says inflicts disproportionate harm on women.

"We were effective in the 70s, and we're effective now," Dempsey said. "But there has been a backlash. Most young women don't know about NOW these days. If NOW is visible and relevant where they (young members) live, that's what makes NOW powerful."

Like most uber-lib's, Dempsey wishes it were still the 70's and is bent on doing everything in her power to see to it that they are recreated right her in the early 21st century.

It appears though, that the Democrats recent efforts have escaped her attention. She refers to Bush's appellate nominees as "extreme," leaving one suspicious that she did not hear the words of fearless leader Ted Kennedy, who noted in a speech on the senate floor resently, that the filibuster compromise sends a "clear message" that extreme nominees would not be tolerated.

Bush's appointments were confirmed after that compromise and therefore, according to Ted Kennedy, are not extremists. Since those appointments can only be described as mainstream given the paramteres set forth for filibuster by the compromise, one can only conclude that it is NOW, and not conservative judicial nominees, that are the extremists.

On that note, I agree with Dempsey. I am sick and tired of extremists and we should make sure we do everything in our power to insure that they do not have a voice at the federal level.