Congressman Joe Walsh hit a new low this week when he attacked Sandra Fluke for testifying before Congress on access to affordable birth control. He said, “Think about this, a 31-32 year old law student who has been a student for life, who gets up there in front of a national audience and tells the American people, ‘I want America to pay for my contraceptives.’ You’re kidding me. Go get a job. Go get a job, Sandra Fluke.”
Rep. Walsh’s attacks were wrong and demeaning. Sandra Fluke is a young woman who stood up for a friend who lost an ovary when she couldn’t afford the very expensive contraception she needed to treat her polycystic ovarian syndrome. It is disappointing to see a sitting Member of Congress attack a young woman who was so brave to come forward. Walsh also issued a blatant falsehood when he accused Fluke of being “a student for life.” America is fortunate to have Ms Fluke, a smart and courageous woman, studying law.
If Walsh is truly concerned about the families in his district who are struggling financially, then he should support policies that make it easier for women to afford the medication they need.
Sadly, these aren’t the only sexist comments Walsh has made this week. He also made a misogynistic accusation about his opponent, Tammy Duckworth this week, saying, “The only debate Ms. Duckworth is actually interested in having is which outfit she’ll be wearing for her big speech.”
I worked with Tammy Duckworth when she directed the State of Illinois Veterans Affairs. I watched her tirelessly look out for Illinois military families. She too is a smart and courageous woman, and America will be fortunate to have her serve as Congresswoman.
Residents of Illinois’ 8th District deserve a representative who respects women and their choices. They deserve better than Joe Walsh.
—Jill Morgenthaler, Retired Army Colonel, Co-President, Illinois Democratic Women
Yes, go get a real job!
Tammy is a stool of Rahm! Look at Rahm now. Rahm's bully tactics caught up with him. Now, Karen Lewsi is a stud!
Jesus would never endorse or be a member of any party whose platform supports abortion. Radical left is taking hold in the middle east.
Bottom line.............If you're in your middle 20's and you cannot support yourself, you should be very ashamed! Get out there and get to work! You are not a helpless child! You are an adult, so please begin to act like one.
What the colleges are doing is nearly criminal. They sucker these kids into borrowing huge amounts of money, teach them a lot of useless stuff, and then send them out into the world to flip hamburgers or wait tables for a living. Mark my words. The next big financial crisis, in this country, will be a massive default on student loans. There is absolutely no way most of these kids are going to be able to pay these crazy loans off. Like any other business, colleges should be held accountable for the products they produce. If they offer a degree in something and a kid pays them the big bucks to "earn" that degree, then the college should be made to cover the loans if the kid finds out that the "knowledge" he/she has gained cannot be translated into gainful employment.
Lemmings....please follow Joe Walsh as he heads for a cliff. You spout the same tired "lines" from the same tired script. Walsh is an ignorant blowhard, doing nothing constructive and collecting a paycheck (with benefits) on our dime. He's the one who should "get a job" because he's not doing the one we are paying him for. Birthcontrol at $10.00 per month....on what planet? It never ceases to amaze me the amount of vitriol that is spewed over contraceptive coverage. Why not the same outrage over coverage for Viagra? Contraceptives are prescribed for many reasons besides birth control (which shouldn't be an issue either)....Viagra is for one thing only. Somehow, we never hear any hue and cry about that.
Showing ignorance of the well publicized facts of the story only reinforce the perception that you are the person spewing lines from a tired script. In what was well documented at the time, "..a Target store only 3 miles from the law school currently sells a month's supply of birth control pills for only $9 to people who do not have insurance plans covering contraceptives. That would make the total cost for birth control pills for a student who decided to use them for all three years of law school just $324." This was in response to Ms.Fluke's testimony to the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee that contraception can cost a law student $3,000 over three years and that some of her fellow students could not afford it. If the facts in this case don't make you question Ms. Fluke and her ilk for their utter lack of self reliance, you are beyond the point of having a rational discussion on this issue.