By Michael Woyton
A few women Republican members of Congress have been getting vocal of late, surprisingly, about presidential and congressional leadership.
What has been said, you ask?
Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene was on the TV machine talking about death threats against her family and herself, laying the blame on things that the president has said, and she has accused her party’s leadership of marginalizing GOP women.
And she’s really pissed that the Epstein files haven’t been released.
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Florida’s Anna Pauline Luna is trying to force a House vote on banning stock trading by Congress members and is not pleased that Speaker Mike Johnson is not moving quickly enough on it.
Meanwhile, New York’s Elise “I Wanna Be Governor Now” Stefanik “publicly unloaded” on Johnson, calling him a liar, over an issue in the national defense bill.
And South Carolina’s Nancy “Bathroom Gender Inspector” Mace penned an opinion piece in the New York Times basically saying the problem with Congress not getting anything done is because of, well, the Republicans in Congress.
Mace actually said in her op-ed that “Nancy Pelosi was a more effective House speaker than any Republican this century,” after saying, of course, that Mace agrees with Pelosi on “essentially nothing.”
Is what is happening the beginning of a shift in dynamics for the Grand Ole Party?
I seriously doubt it. You know, leopard and spots, as the saying goes.
Look at the adjudicated rapist and his attitude toward women over the years and, checking notes, as recently as yesterday when he berated yet another woman reporter who dared to ask him a question, which is kinda sorta what reporters do.
ABC News senior political reporter Rachel Scott asked Trump about releasing the full video of the bombing of an alleged drug smuggling boat on Venezuela on Sept. 2.
According to The Independent, the elderly golfer snapped, saying, “You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place,” adding that she was a terrible reporter.
That isn’t the first time he’s done that to a woman in her place of business and likely won’t be the last.
Trump has no respect for women — look at his three marriages and the scandals surrounding them. Look at how shaken he seems to be about the Epstein files.
So why should Republican men in Congress treat their women colleagues any different? They are following their leader.
I mean, it’s built into Project 2025, the 900-or-so-page Heritage Foundation handbook for the transition of American democracy to Christian nationalism.
The National Women’s Law Center analyzed the handbook and said that “[a]ttempts to roll back civil rights protections and end the federal government’s efforts to achieve gender justice are embedded throughout the entire plan.”
In the handbook are efforts to limit reproductive rights, penalize unmarried women, gut diversity, equity and inclusion and reduce assistance to low-income families.
These are all designed to harm women, first and foremost, with the bonus being harm to pretty much everyone else.
So how does Johnson react to being called a misogynist by Greene?
He brings his wife to the Katie Miller Podcast — Miller is the wife of Temu Goebbels Stephen Miller, the man running the government while Trump plans a ballroom and hugs his FIFA peace prize — for a sit down chat.
During the interview, Kelly Johnson, the wife, talks about how men are mentally capable of compartmentalizing things and women are not, according to Baptist News Global.
As author Rick Pidcock wrote in his analysis, “Of course, all this is pseudoscientific nonsense.”
He goes on to say, “But a lot of conservatives think it’s fun to imagine men are able to handle pressure and make decisions without being overwhelmed by emotion while that is all too much for women.”
I’ll go even further, a lot of people who call themselves Christians believe that women can only be inferior to men, and that is what this administration is all about.
I don’t believe the likes of Margie Greene, Nancy Mace and Elise Stefanik are ever going to join the Democratic Party.
But I do believe that they see the writing on the walls, that incompetent men have for too long been in charge.
Here’s hoping that conservative people who might just listen to them will come to the realization that, by supporting the convicted felon and the men who will do anything for him, they are working against their best interests.
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