Joe Biden, Feminist

[medicswife]

In January 2000, when the Supreme Court assembled to hear oral arguments attacking a pivotal section of the Violence Against Women Act, Joseph Biden was front and center. VAWA legally protects women from domestic abuse and gender-based violence, and Biden has proclaimed it the "most important legislative accomplishment" of his Senate career. But, long before the law had reached a congressional vote, Chief Justice William Rehnquist had attacked the "Civil Rights for Women" section, with which Biden sought to define gender-motivated crimes as bias or hate crimes.

As Rehnquist prepared to open the morning's first argument, Biden did not sit somberly. Rather, the senator swiveled in his seat (conspicuous to most of us in the court's press section), smiling cheerily and talking with nearby allies, including numerous female attorneys who had helped him shape the bill. Although Biden had no official role, he sought to signal that--in what he described that day as a "titanic struggle"--neither he nor the women around him would go quietly in defeat.

The rest of the article is here: http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=685a4524-9702-49c0-b062-7d9ecd21a854

It's a long article, but so far good enough I wanted to link to it from here. :)

[jillan]

1. What a great article!

I'm so glad that someone else, besides us, is talking about this.

Have you posted it out there? If not, you should.
Just let us know, and we will kick and rec :)

[medicswife]

2. lol out there can be scary!

I'll never forget when that one asshole decided to eat me for dinner and accuse my husband of being a murderer and shit because he's in the Army. Let me look and see if anybody else has put it up, if not, I'll stick it out there. :loveya:

[Muttocracy]

3. I'd like to post the other one on New Republic too, about his constitutional approach. nt

[Muttocracy]

5. Here it is:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7094564

[medicswife]

6. I just kicked it and commented. :) Great article nt

[Muttocracy]

9. OK, get yours up and I'll return the favor. nt

[jillan]

4. Don't let those people get to you.

I remember a thread I posted out there when Biden got the Mraps for our troops and someone said they didn't deserve them.
Or when someone was dissing Joe for leading us into Bosnia because there wasn't genocide going on there - only ethnic cleansing.
You just got to wonder about some people.


Ok - going to look.

[medicswife]

7. It's up now, my 8 year old just started barfing, lol so I got a bit

"distracted" shall we say? Then I noticed that our blue tongued skink was shedding and poor little guy didn't have any wet moss to burrow into so he was having a hard time of it.

Lord I'm a busy woman. I should be doing dishes and stuff, not sitting here on the old 'puter!

Guys, only about 60 more days 'til my hubby is supposed to come home............can you all help me keep my chin up? The last couple of months are the hardest. I have started to have nightmares again and stuff, because once they've been there this long, (a year now), they start to get really tired and they start to daydream about going home and stuff...and bad things can happen. So, can you guys send a shout out to the big man upstairs for the 1/327 Inf. Reg. of the 101st Airborne?

[jillan]

10. You bet I'll keep him in my thoughts and prayers!

[medicswife]

11. thanks, pirhana......

:hug:

[PatSeg]

12. Oh, that's going to be a LONG 60 days

I hope it goes by quickly. Meanwhile, you all will be in my thoughts.

[Muttocracy]

8. the last two paragraphs of the piece are wonderful. nt