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Senators: If women were running the show, we’d have a cliff deal by now
“I think if we were in charge of the Senate and of the administration that we would have a budget deal by now,” Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told ABC’s World News anchor Diane Sawyer today. …
“What I find is with all due deference to- deference to our male colleagues, that women’s styles tend to be more collaborative,” Collins said.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said by nature women are “less confrontational and more collaborative,” – both traits necessary to reach a deal to avoid the country going over the fiscal cliff.
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True. Look at how efficient things were when Pelosi was House Speaker….oh wait.
Doughboy on December 12, 2012 at 11:23 AM
Females less confrontational? ROTFLMAO.
I had no idea pot was legal in Missouri.
platypus on December 12, 2012 at 11:24 AM
What a stupid thing to say.
So in essence what Collins is saying is if women had been running the country they would have sold us out to communism decades ago.
Thanks for the heads up.
darwin on December 12, 2012 at 11:25 AM
But remember, if a dude says something about the difference between dudes and chicks:
sexist
misogynist
glass ceiling
anti-science
condones rape
get back in the kitchen
/cue the dancing vajayjays
The Schaef on December 12, 2012 at 11:27 AM
Actually, I think I’ll duck.
platypus on December 12, 2012 at 11:28 AM
Yeah, but what about sammiches? Would we have those?
greggriffith on December 12, 2012 at 11:31 AM
No Thanks. I like my government consistent.
HotAirian on December 12, 2012 at 11:32 AM
Actually I think she is right…which is why as a young kid, liberal women were so valuable to us guys…but we married conservative women.
right2bright on December 12, 2012 at 11:32 AM
The problem with her theory…while they negotiated, who would be making dinner and cleaning the house??
right2bright on December 12, 2012 at 11:33 AM
FORWARD – LADY PARTS!
Pork-Chop on December 12, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Is that sexist? Why yes, yes it is. Not that I’m going whine and get the vapors over it. That’s only for the perpetually offended Left-wing hypocrites
RadClown on December 12, 2012 at 11:34 AM
They are:
Male: Obama-45; Romney-52
Female: Obama-55; Romney-44
Male: Tester-45; Rehber-52
Female: Tester-51; Rehber-44
Male: Warren-47; Brown-53
Female: Warren-59; Brown-41
Etc.
besser tot als rot on December 12, 2012 at 11:34 AM
Great. So we can expect Sharia compliance with the first woman president. Can’t have confrontation now can we.
darwin on December 12, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Then run for president, majority leader, speaker, etc. and get in position to do something about it. Otherwise, don’t come up with stupid hypotheticals that you can’t prove, i.e. if aliens invaded the Earth, the economy would improve.
change is for suckers on December 12, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Another problem…each meeting would start later and later, as they try to figure out what dress to wear?
What color goes with capitulation? Or do these pearls make a strong enough statement, or should I go with diamonds to show power? Can we move the meeting to 3pm, my Botox is at 2pm…
right2bright on December 12, 2012 at 11:37 AM
Imagine the kind of regulations we’d have:
The “Make Your Bed Every Day Act”
“Brush Your Teeth Every Day Act”
“Clean Undies Act”
“Don’t Forget Birthday and Anniversary Act”
“Kiss And Make Up Act”
“No Means No Except When It Doesn’t Act”
BobMbx on December 12, 2012 at 11:39 AM
I’ve never heard passive-aggressiveness described that way.
RadClown on December 12, 2012 at 11:40 AM
Winner winner, chicken dinner…
SWalker on December 12, 2012 at 11:41 AM
Fear not. In the coming years the teachers’ unions will have beaten the more confrontational and less collaborative nature of boys out of them.
Oh, and yes. Those are sexist remarks made by those who like to point their fingers at others. Grrr…
Fallon on December 12, 2012 at 11:41 AM
This is true. I’ve never been at a meeting with women who hesitated to spend money, especially other peoples’ money.
Rocks on December 12, 2012 at 11:43 AM
I am sure there will be more significant statements in this interview. I suspect half of them will be left on the cutting room floor. The message of the day today is: Make a deal, any deal. We have to pass it to find out what is in it.
Fleuries on December 12, 2012 at 11:44 AM
I am a woman, Claire, and I wouldn’t agree with you, Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Mikulski, Kirsten Gillibrand, Debbie Stabenow, Amy Klobuchar, etc.
It’s Thelma and Louise time, baby!
Resist We Much on December 12, 2012 at 11:45 AM
I like the “No, I’m Not Mad Act” and its companion the “No, Nothing is Wrong Act”
These two rare bills actually said nothing, but we were all still expected to figure them out.
Nick_Angel on December 12, 2012 at 11:46 AM
How could you overlook Wasserman?? The queen of “collaboration” and extending the gracious hand of negotiation…
right2bright on December 12, 2012 at 11:50 AM
We’d have a cliff deal and sammiches.
gwelf on December 12, 2012 at 11:52 AM
As long as they aren’t dealing with another woman, maybe.
Moesart on December 12, 2012 at 11:52 AM
LOL.
albill on December 12, 2012 at 11:53 AM
Are you saying that womyn and men are not equal? Are you saying that the womyn’s lady parts somehow make them smarter? Or possibly, since the public will be the recipients of their special knowledge, that the public will feel better being pranged by womyn than men? In answer to my second statement, womyn’s lady parts DO make men stupider,
Old Country Boy on December 12, 2012 at 11:59 AM
LOL!
Night Owl on December 12, 2012 at 12:01 PM
Florida has not yet sunk to the level of California and elevated one of the more irritating haemorrhoids on the anus that is Progressivism to the “world’s most deliberative body.”
Resist We Much on December 12, 2012 at 12:02 PM
Well, I’m sure you’ll figure both out before you pass the same petrol station for the 6,987th time.
Asking for directions is to men what parallel parking is to women. Now, if Garmin would only come up with a parallel parking solution equivalent to GPS, everyone would be happy….well, except for the people behind the 92 year-old doing 40mph in the fast lane on the Interstate with his left-turn indicator light flashing.
The NHS figured out how to deal with him…Liverpool Care Pathway. Y’all just have to wait until Obamacare and the “death panels” get really going. /
Resist We Much on December 12, 2012 at 12:09 PM
Bwahahahahaah!
That’s funny.
Bob's Kid on December 12, 2012 at 12:12 PM
Check out the Around View Monitor on the 2013 Nissan Pathfinder.
Nick_Angel on December 12, 2012 at 12:17 PM
McCaskill s/b shunned by all honest and hard-working women.
She is a political harlot and cheat.
Misouri people, you are duped fools.
Schadenfreude on December 12, 2012 at 12:38 PM
Missouri
Schadenfreude on December 12, 2012 at 12:39 PM
Yes, women would be very effective over the social and even national defense. But if you’re talking bout the fiscal cliff, you’d be in for a rude surprise.
tommy71 on December 12, 2012 at 12:40 PM
BS. If women were in charge, there’d be cat fights on the floor of the house and senate.
LincolntheHun on December 12, 2012 at 12:53 PM
“I just talked with the Sec Treasury, and she assures me we have plenty of checks left”
BobMbx on December 12, 2012 at 1:00 PM
BobMbx on December 12, 2012 at 11:39 AM
The “Not Tonight, I Have A Headache Act.”
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on December 12, 2012 at 1:00 PM
Ahem….this is known as “recon”
BobMbx on December 12, 2012 at 1:02 PM