It goes further than just Donohue

I posted this on Blue House Diaries, in response to a comment Lorraine made. The original comment has been added to here.

Strega, [aka Lorraine], I'm so pissed off about all of this I haven't found the words yet to fully say what is in my heart and in my head, let's just say, for now, I find others to be equally complicit in this.

John Edwards should have refused to accept Amanda's resignation. She could have gone ahead and resigned, of course, but the fact that Edwards accepted it is so in keeping with the Democratic Party leadership not saying a goddamned, fucking word about this war against women for 6+ fuckingass years. Politics above women, campaigns above women, elections above women, they keep resigning us to the back burner, why, could it possibly be because they view our rights, our issues, as too hot to handle, so afraid they will run into the exact shit that the rightwing brought to bear?

My vote, YES, and if that is indeed true, what the fuck does that say about what kind of president he will be? Where the fuck will women's rights play in an administration that does not, forcefully and relentlessly, state that they will not accept a resignation of a woman that is being forced out of the fold of a political campaign by the fuckingass rightwing that has been doing this for decades?

Edwards could have been the person who stood up to them, he should have yelled and screamed from his bloody pulpit, we will not give into such slander. Edwards, and Elizabeth, should have found their convictions and stood solidly behind them.

So, yeah, Donohue is a bigoted son of a bitch but, IMO, the Democrats aren't far behind.

Women's issues and rights have been glossed over since this administration first started the war against us, the silence has been as deafening as Donohue's words are.

When Obama posted his diary telling us to be more civil to our elected officials on Kos, I fuckingass went ballistic, screaming that this party had continually told women our time would come, they fuckingass told us to have our little coffee cake parties, to raise money for them, all in the same breath as shushing us. It's been going on as long as I've been a member of this party, for forty fuckingass years and I'm sick of it.

I'm fed up with the politics on both sides of the aisle, what jesus didn't say, the Democrats say, over and over and over, shut your fucking pie hole.

I'm really so fuckingass pissed off I can't even make sense but there will come a day, very, very soon when I can, few will be spared the wrath of this woman, as I've truly had it, I'm fed up, it's fuckingass lunacy and we can't stand silent, we must tell them all, we're not going to take it anymore, not one more day.

The response to all of this by many, many women makes me so proud to be a woman, and it gives me hope, real hope, that there are enough of us to stop the persistent calls that tell us to shut the fuck up.

Equality is the key, in my opinion, not in empty words or in trying to placate us, equality in the Constitution with laws that give us true equality above and beyond words written in black and white.

It also needs to be said, loudly and clearly, to the Democratic leadership that we won't stand for it any longer. The scorn of thousands, even millions of women must be as forceful as their attempts to silence us. Nothing less will do.

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