Once again, despite the ReThugs hatred of women and their endless policies designed to enforce that hate, one of our Democratic "brothers", Max Baucus, is giving these hateful ReThugs another chance to get votes from women.
There is only one solution to this ongoing problem: MORE DEMOCRATIC WOMEN IN POLITICAL OFFICE. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. That is what Democratic men have when it comes to women's rights. Since they get ZERO support from the ReThugs, women's rights are left to Democrats, and since far too many elected Dems are men, and far far too many of them are scummy men like Baucus & Edwards, women's rights are left behind. (See: Stupak amendment.)
Abominations like the Stupak amendment are what you get when you have such a ridiculously low percentage of women in office. So please, please, please, support Democratic women in the primaries.
I do not believe things like the Stupak amendment and behavior like that of Edwards and Baucus (and the male suck-asses who defend every act of personal mistreatment of women) are unrelated. When you think it is OK to treat individual women like shit, it will eventually bleed over into leaving them behind politically.
Don't get me wrong, I'd rather have a male politician who treats women bad personally than an entire party of male politicians who are hell-bent on sending women back to the Stone Age. But shit, Spitzer, Edwards, Baucus, all relatively recently, this is really getting ridiculous. (And the assholes who defend these assholes do even more harm.)
So please, support Democratic women in the upcoming primaries.
Please tell the DailyKos community about women running in your locality.
Please encourage women, both already political women and women you may know, to run for offices large and small.
And please, don't defend the behavior of these woman-mistreating men, we've had entirely too much of that already. We need men to speak up and speak out against personal mistreatment of women, as well as the political mistreatment they suffer at the hands of the ReThugs and Stupaks of the world.
(And the Dems should use this obvious case of corruption to take Baucus chair away from him and give it someone who'll get us real health care reform.)
UPDATE:
To all the sexist goober morons weighing in to say there is nothing wrong with a government of men, by men, and for men, do yourself a favor: "It is better to keep silent and have people think you a fool than to open your fool mouths and prove it!" You are willfully ignorant sexist fools, and it is people like you who keep the system in place.