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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans Worry That Midterm Voters Might Believe Women Deserve Rights :: Borowitz
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/republicans-worry-that-midterm-voters-might-believe-women-deserve-rightsIn the aftermath of the decisive Democratic win in New Yorks special congressional election on Tuesday, Republican leaders are suddenly concerned that midterm voters might believe that women deserve rights.
The Democrat Pat Ryans thumping win in Tuesdays election has made Republicans wonder, in the words of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Is this thing of women having rights going to be a problem for us in the fall?
You look at the results in the Ryan election, and it sure seems like a lot of people thought women should be considered human, McCarthy said. The question is: is this a part of something bigger or just kind of a onetime fluke?
McCarthy said that he hopes midterm voters will think big picture and consider other issues besides whether women should have rights.
With our emphasis on environmental deregulation, book banning, and easier access to guns, the Republicans have created a big tent, he said. It would be a shame to see that wrecked by an obscure special-interest group like women.
The Democrat Pat Ryans thumping win in Tuesdays election has made Republicans wonder, in the words of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Is this thing of women having rights going to be a problem for us in the fall?
You look at the results in the Ryan election, and it sure seems like a lot of people thought women should be considered human, McCarthy said. The question is: is this a part of something bigger or just kind of a onetime fluke?
McCarthy said that he hopes midterm voters will think big picture and consider other issues besides whether women should have rights.
With our emphasis on environmental deregulation, book banning, and easier access to guns, the Republicans have created a big tent, he said. It would be a shame to see that wrecked by an obscure special-interest group like women.
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Republicans Worry That Midterm Voters Might Believe Women Deserve Rights :: Borowitz (Original Post)
erronis
Aug 2022
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Great! There's truth in "his" view of women as an "obscure special interest group."
Hortensis
Aug 2022
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)1. Great! There's truth in "his" view of women as an "obscure special interest group."
After all, women have always been, in effect of oppression, the biggest minority group. If McCarthyite wishes were horses, we'd be forever obscure.
niyad
(112,435 posts)2. So Borowitz is stealing their talking points?
erronis
(14,955 posts)3. Yeah - I guess the repugs should accuse him of plagiarism!
Fun to see this play out in court.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)4. Reality as satire...or is it the other way around...
I'm so confused!