Not quite the icon for the $10 bill Republicans would pick if they really knew anything about her.
Asked which woman they would pick to put on the new $10 to replace Alexander Hamilton, several of the Republicans at Wednesday's CNN-moderated debate were flummoxed and had to dig through their weary synapses to find a woman of prominence. It appeared for a moment that Chris Christie was going to pick Morticia or Wednesday of the Addams Family, but he meant the nation's founding Adams family and selected Abigail instead. Quite a bit better than Jebya's choice of Maggie Thatcher or the family members suggested by Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee, both apparently unaware that only the dead can appear on our currency.
Three of the candidates, first Marco Rubio, then Ted Cruz and—having given it a second thought—Donald Trump picked civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
Quite a good choice, although I personally have preferred Harriet Tubman since writing last March about the
grassroots campaign to get a woman on the $20 bill to replace Andrew Jackson.
As Laura Bassett and Julia Craven at the Huffington Post point out, however, there's a little problem:
... the Republican candidates might be surprised to learn that Parks sat on the national board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, one of the GOP’s biggest political enemies.
Cruz, ironically, is leading the Republican attack on Planned Parenthood, trying to pressure his colleagues in the Senate to threaten a government shutdown to end federal funding for the family planning provider. But the Texas conservative praised Parks in the debate Wednesday night, calling her “a principled pioneer that helped change this country, helped remedy racial injustice.”
Whoops.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2005—If It Looks Like a Duck, and is Soft and Supple Like a Duck...:
OK, I'm feeling much better now.
I was worried for a bit there, but now I can honestly say I feel much bet OH SWEET JESUS WHAT THE HELL IS THAT COMING RIGHT FOR US?
O'REILLY: The secular progressive movement would like to have marriage abolished, in my opinion. They don't want it, because it is not diverse enough. You know, that's what this gay marriage thing is all about. But now, you know, the poly-amorphous marriage, whatever they call it, you can marry 18 people, you can marry a duck, I mean --
LIS WIEHL (co-host): A duck? Quack, quack.
O'REILLY: Well, why, you know, if you're in love with the duck, who is the society to tell you you can't do that?
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If there was one person on the face of this planet who I would really, really advise to keep his personal fetish laundry list private, it would be Bill O'Reilly. I have no possible explanation for the conservative notion that if we allow gay people to get married, it will lead to duck orgies.
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