{"id":7551,"date":"2012-04-15T12:35:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T19:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7551"},"modified":"2012-04-15T12:35:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T19:35:35","slug":"which-mitt-on-working-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/15\/which-mitt-on-working-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Mitt on Working Women?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multiple Mitt Romney has been squirming to extricate himself from the disastrous effects of the Republican War on Women.  To that end, he has tried to take advantage of a poorly worded statement by Hillary Rosen.  Romney says that stay-at-home moms are working women, and I agree.  However which Mitt says that?  As always, there is another Mitt that says the exact opposite.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"15Mitt\"In case it wasn\u2019t already clear that last week\u2019s controversy over stay at home moms was entirely manufactured, this should put the question to bed. <\/font><\/p>\n

Romney and allies cried that Democrats had declared \u201cwar on moms\u201d after a Democratic strategist said Romney\u2019s wife hadn\u2019t worked a day in her life. Romney\u2019s camp said<\/a><\/font> this meant Democrats don\u2019t value stay at home moms and motherhood, while they believe that women who stay home are doing real work.<\/font><\/p>\n

But for every Romney action, there is an equal and opposite Romney reaction, and this morning, MSNBC\u2019s Chris Hayes dug up a video of Romney from just January in which the Republican presidential candidate said he wanted to require women who receive welfare to work outside the home, even if their children are very young. He told a New Hampshire audience<\/a><\/font>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to increase the work requirement,\u201d said Romney. \u201cI said, for instance, that even if you have a child 2 years of age, you need to go to work<\/strong><\/span>. And people said, \u2018Well that\u2019s heartless.\u2019 And I said, \u2018No, no, I\u2019m willing to spend more giving day care to allow those parents to go back to work. It\u2019ll cost the state more providing that daycare, but I want the individuals to have the dignity of work<\/strong><\/span>.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

Watch it:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

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But this is worse than hypocritical because there is a clear difference here \u2014 women who receive welfare benefits, the ones Romney wants to force to work, are poor, while Romney\u2019s wife is very wealthy. And this exactly the point CNN contributor Hillary Rosen was trying to make\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em><\/span>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Now that we have this in context, it appears clear that for Romney, stay-at-home moms are working women, as long as they are rich.  The rest of the context here is that Romney said he considers Ann his advisor on women\u2019s issues.  I\u2019m sure that Ann is very well versed in the issues important to the women of the 1%, but the needs she faces on a day-to-day basis have nothing in common with those of women who have to work outside the home.  Bu picking her to be his advisor on women\u2019s issues, Romney demonstrates just how oblivious he is to 99% of Americans.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Multiple Mitt Romney has been squirming to extricate himself from the disastrous effects of the Republican War on Women.  To that end, he has tried to take advantage of a poorly worded statement by Hillary Rosen.  Romney says that stay-at-home moms are working women, and I agree.  However which Mitt says that?  As always, there […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}