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Meet Janis Lane: Tea Party Leader And Anti-Feminist

Janis Lane is the Tea Party leader in Mississippi and she appears to long for the days when women were happy chattel. Lane had made headlines in complaining that women are inherently poorly suited to not just serve as bosses but to vote.


Lane explained that “Probably the biggest turn we ever made was when the women got the right to vote. Our country might have been better off if it was still just men voting.” A former marketing director who now leads the party in Central Mississippi, Lane further observed that “There is nothing worse than a bunch of mean, hateful women. They are diabolical in how than can skewer a person . . . I do not see that in men. The whole time I worked, I’d much rather have a male boss than a female boss. Double-minded, you never can trust them.”

Once again, it is remarkable how some of our radicalized citizens share striking similarity with our enemies like the Taliban who would agree wholeheartedly with Lane on her view of women.

Source: Daily Mail

289 thoughts on “Meet Janis Lane: Tea Party Leader And Anti-Feminist”

  1. Elaine,

    I’ve been thinking and part and parcel of the recent “employers tell your employees how to vote” nonsense is a direct result of that abomination that is Citizens United. Due to the power inequity inherent in the relationship, even if the don’t use direct threats? It’s still intimidation, plain and simple. Fascists.

  2. Bron,

    What the heck have you been investing in that has taken such a beating over the last four years??? Dow Jones had fallen to 6000 the month that George left office. It is now more than DOUBLED – 13500. And you’re complaining about capital gains on home sales? You and your wife can make up to $499K profit and OWE NO TAX. Give me a break!

  4. Once a bully always a bully, Elaine. Apparently Mittens doesn’t think it’s intimidating when your employer tells you how to vote. What a hairpiece.

  8. America Has Now Met the Many Romneys, and America Knows They Can Get Their Asses Kicked: At the Debate
    By Charles P. Pierce
    10/17/12
    http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/last-night-debate-13800806

    Excerpt:
    HEMPSTEAD, New York — Those of us who lived under the barely distinguishable leadership of Willard Romney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (God save it!) know very well that the emotional membrane separating Lofty Willard from Snippy Willard is thin indeed, and that the membrane separating Snippy Willard from Dickhead Willard is well-nigh translucent. Both of those membranes were tested fully here on Tuesday night by the president, by Candy Crowley — who has clearly had enough of your bullshit, thank you very much — and by the simple fact that certain members of The Help tested the challenger’s ideas and found them wanting and, my dear young man, that simply is not done. And both of those membranes failed like rotting levees in a storm.

    Before I arrived to Hofstra on Tuesday, I thought that, given the roll he’s been on, Romney would be able to keep both Snippy Willard and Dickhead Willard in check. I had no doubt that, because the nature of the event required that he mingle with actual carbon-based life forms, we undoubtedly would see English-as-a-Second-Language Willard. And we did. (“Binders full of women”?) And, because at least some of the questions were likely to be wild cards, there was a better than even chance that Zany Improv Willard would put in an appearance, as he did on the very first question of the night, when he told a young man named Jeremy that, “I want to make sure we keep our Pell Grant program going,” when, in fact, one of the under-appreciated consequences of the overall zombie-eyed granny-starving onto which he signed when he picked his running mate is the fact that his running mate’s “budget” would utterly devastate… wait for it… Pell Grants!

    (I have to admit it: When the president let that fat, hanging curveball go by, I thought he was in for another long evening.)

    But not even I expected Romney to let his entitled, Lord-of-the-Manor freak flag fly as proudly as he did on Tuesday night. He got in the president’s face. He got in Crowley’s face. That moment when he was hectoring the president about the president’s pension made him look like someone to whom the valet has brought the wrong Mercedes.

    “You’ll get your chance in a moment. I’m still speaking.”

    Wow. To me, this was a revelatory, epochal moment. It was a look at the real Willard Romney, the Bain cutthroat who could get rich ruining lives and not lose a moment’s sleep. But those people are merely the anonymous Help. The guy he was speaking to on Tuesday night is a man of considerable international influence. Outside of street protestors, and that Iraqi guy who threw a shoe at George W. Bush, I have never seen a more lucid example of manifest public disrespect for a sitting president than the hair-curling contempt with which Romney invested those words. (I’ve certainly never seen one from another candidate.) He’s lucky Barack Obama prizes cool over everything else. LBJ would have taken out his heart with a pair of salad tongs and Harry Truman would have bitten off his nose.

  10. “He just cannot understand that lower tax rates generate the additional revenue. It happens everywhere, in every era it is tried.”

    http://m.xkcd.com/552/

    Also, since you’re so sure, you’ve got some sort of emperical backing for that, like nice charts where the income tax rate and revenue are shown side by side right?

  11. About that ER thing. I went to the ER, picked up a serious infection and was admitted to the hospital the next day with antibiotic drip. Since I had no income or maybe my $600/month had kicked in, I couldn’t pay the nearly $6000 bill. My property ended up with a lien on it. My mother died and left me enough that, adding to it some of my IRA, I was able to pay the hospital off. The lien wasn’t released b/c I hadn’t paid another $3500 to the lawyers. The lawyers said I had been personally served but I was half way across the country caring for my father at the time so I don’t know how that happened.

  12. Bron,

    “I dont know what line of work you are in but in mine the reduction started in 2008 and has only gotten better in the last couple of months, it seems there is some activity but that is probably from more stimulus spending to pump the economy up before the election.”

    My line of work is none of your business, Bron. I just think it’s so like you to see economic realities delineated and bound by executive administrations.

  13. Bron,

    “You have made yours, Mike, you have a nice retirement, a house in Florida a nice family. How about help making it so the rest of us can have the same thing?”

    This is a callus, insulting, and hypocritical statement, Bron.

    “With this economy, I can never retire, can never sell my house for enough to buy one in Florida or somewhere else warm. Bush and now Obama have stolen from me and my wife and millions of others just like us.”

    This is the fallout of the race to the bottom, Bron; a race you so seem to love, encourage, and argue the other side of consistently with your, “free market,” mythologies.

    Maybe you should reassess some perspectives you hold and realize that your own philosophy doesn’t care about nor has time for you.

  14. gbk:

    I dont know what line of work you are in but in mine the reduction started in 2008 and has only gotten better in the last couple of months, it seems there is some activity but that is probably from more stimulus spending to pump the economy up before the election.

  15. Bron,

    “Yes, it has been terrible for the middle class in the last 4 years under Obama. Thanks for Pointing that out OS.”

    That’s really funny, Bron. From my perspective things started getting bad in mid-2005, and the only relief has been the last year and one-half.

    I know we live in different worlds, (thank you, entropy) so I’m not surprised that you think things have only been terrible under Obama.

  16. GOP Rep. Contradicts Romney, Says Uninsured Do Die From Lack Of Coverage
    By Scott Keyes
    Oct 17, 2012
    http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/10/17/1023151/joe-heck-romney-insurance/

    Excerpt:
    HENDERSON, Nevada — Last week, Mitt Romney justified his desire to repeal Obamacare by arguing that “we don’t have people who die because they don’t have insurance.” And so on Monday, ThinkProgress spoke with Tea Party freshman Rep. Joe Heck (R-NV), a former emergency medicine doctor, at a candidate forum and asked him whether Romney’s comments jibe with his past experience. Heck took issue with Romney’s assertion that emergency room care for individuals without health insurance is a real solution. “I’ve seen people presented later in the course of their disease because they didn’t health insurance,” Heck said. At that point, “it’s certainly much more difficult for them and it’s much more costly to the system”:

    KEYES: You’re a doctor. Mitt Romney took a little heat the other day for saying that there aren’t any folks in the United States who have died because they don’t have health insurance. Is that something you agree with in your experience? What have you seen personally?

    HECK: I’ve seen people presented later in the course of their disease because they didn’t health insurance. So they put off getting help until they’re far along and then it’s certainly much more difficult for them and it’s much more costly to the system.

  17. October 17, 2012
    Small-Time
    http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/small-time-mitt/

    So, I was amazed to hear Mitt Romney describing himself as having “come through small business”, as if his private equity firm were just like a mom-and-pop store or something. But Digby informs us that he made similar claims in his convention speech, making Bain sound like a scrappy little start-up. And it’s true it had only 10 people at first — that, and $37 million, yes, $37 million, in seed money.

    Where did that $37 million come from? A large part from foreigners, in many cases investing via Panama-based shell companies. Also, funds from families of Central American oligarchs, who were sitting things out in Miami while death squads sponsored by their class, and in some cases by their relatives, were roaming their home countries.

    Hey, doesn’t this sound like just your usual small-business success story?

  18. Bron,

    FYI:

    Planned Parenthood, Abortion & Federal Budget
    DONNA CASSATA
    04/ 8/11
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/08/planned-parenthood-federal-budget_n_846933.html

    Excerpt:
    WASHINGTON — Republicans portray Planned Parenthood as primarily focused on performing abortions and – intentionally or not – using American taxpayer dollars to do it.

    Not so, say Democrats who counter that the group’s 800-plus health centers nationwide provide an array of services, from screenings for cancer to testing for sexually transmitted diseases. Abortion is just one of many procedures, and the law bars Planned Parenthood from using tax money for it.

  19. Bron, for the same reason I think education through 4 years of college or post high school trade schools should be entirely publicly funded, it’s in the long term and short term interest of the nation. I’d have liked to have that done for me and for my parents but it didn’t work that way. I don’t begrudge succeeding generations the shot. The country and world would be a better place. I would consider it one of my few tangible legacy’s to the future. Same for a lot of things, single-payer health care, all that socialist stuff. I pay well over 500$ a month for health insurance, between my ex-employer and I we pay almost 14K a year. The price could drop, we could pay it to the national health-care trust and probably get better care. It evens out over the long haul. If you’re not in it for the long haul, well, you must be al Qaeda or something! 🙂

  20. lotta katz:

    that is funny but we are paying 8.5% interest on student loans, I am not sure how good a deal that is when the interest rates are around 3%.

    Why should planned parenthood be funded with tax money? You want to support abortions go ahead and support them. But to force people to pony up who disagree? Well that isnt very “liberal” is it?

    Romney isnt going to outlaw abortion and he isnt going to prevent gay marriage. Romney is a flawed candidate but he is a lot less flawed than Obama.

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