Patty Murray: Congress Wouldn't Be Such A Mess If Women Were In Charge

Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-10-19 18:28

Article here. Excerpt:

'If women ruled the country, the government wouldn't be on the brink of shutting down or defaulting on its debt, according to Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.).

Murray spoke to a largely female audience on Wednesday, at an event that was part of The Atlantic's Women of Washington series.

She decried Republican legislation that would shut down the government unless Obamacare is defunded. "The rational thing to do," Murray said, "if there were a group of women in charge, is that we would keep the government running for the next several weeks, and we would say [on] the debt ceiling [that] we're going to pay our bills, and now let's do what we need to do, and sit down and solve our budget problems."
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Murray isn't the only female senator who believes Congress may be less dysfunctional if there were more women.

When asked about regulatory reform legislation at Fortune magazine's "Most Powerful Women" dinner in April 2010, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said, "well, I actually think that if we had all women [in the Senate], we would solve the problem."

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who was sitting in the front row at the event, enthusiastically clapped in response.'

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Bothers me.

It's been said that Japanese culture creates people who are more likely to compromise and seek harmonious solutions to problems than other cultures. Maybe if we had more people of Japanese cultural heritage in Congress, things would work better, too.

What, you say, such a generalizations may or may not stand up to scrutiny? It may in fact be a kind of "golden bigotry"?

Yeah. And you'd be right.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2013-10-19 20:27