| The current House committee chairman sausage fest. |
After enduring negative headlines that all of the House Republican committee chairmanships will be filled by men in the next Congress, Republicans have found their woman.
NBC News has learned that Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mich.) will be named chair of the House Administration Committee. Miller did not serve on the committee during the 112th Congress.
Well so what if she has no experience with the committee? An appointment is an appointment, right?
Just so long it's not some really embarrassing chairmanship that nobody ever really wants, or that involves something kind of sexist like, oh I don't know, house keeping or something like that.
The House Administration Committee deals with the pertinent administrative business of the House. The committee can decide such mundane things as whether or not the House cafeterias will use paper or Styrofoam plates -- or more serious matters such as benefit packages for congressional workers and how the Library of Congress operates. The Committee also monitors the expense accounts of House members.
Oh, so she's in charge of the kitchen, and managing the House money? Oh yeah, nothing sexist about THAT!
House Speaker John Boehner issued this statement: “From ensuring the House runs efficiently and smoothly, to making Congress more open and accessible, Candice has a big job ahead as chairman of the House Administration Committee. In her new post, Candice will provide the leadership needed to keep operating costs down, save taxpayer dollars, and help lawmakers use new technology to better engage with their constituents. And her experience as Michigan secretary of state will be invaluable given the committee’s oversight of campaign finance and election laws.
By the way sources say that after those official remarks Boehner then whispered under his breath, "And besides I am pretty sure she has a vagina, so you liberals can just back the fuck off!" (Okay I made that part up, but you KNOW he was thinking it.)
Okay let's take us a look at this Rep. Candace Miller shall we?
Well nice try Republicans, I mean you work with what you've got right?
Okay I'm going to close this post because she kind of scares me. (So much for sleeping with the lights off tonight.)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that woman has either an Adam's apple or a developing goiter. Not to mention a hell of an attitude, with an expression like that. Just saying...
ReplyDeleteactually it looks like an enlarged thyroid. That may account for her furry face.
DeleteThe look comes from selling your soul to the devil.....just sayin'.....
DeleteI was going to say that too, get your ass to the dr. and have your thyroid checked!
DeleteLooks like she has a thyroid problem. She seems like she can discipline them. She reminds me of the Catholic Nuns that use to hit your knuckles with a ruler.
ReplyDeleteBetter watch yourself anon...I got called a twat, bitch, idiot and all kinds of names for saying the same thing about Holly Petraeus. The regulars around here don't take kindly to you stating the obvious. I went to Catholic school, and to me, the nun look represents the no frills, no nonsense utilitarian look of a woman who could care less about her hair, clothes, or makeup, not that there's anything wrong with that, it is what it is.
DeleteBTW, I am a forty something woman , I just happen to have an interest in hair, clothes, and makeup, call me crazy. The bitches here love to rail on Sarah Palin, but God forbid you do it to anyone else.
But she don't do floors.
DeleteV-Voter, those were just the shit-stirrers from C4P that got on you before. We love the 40-somethings*** over here, and like it when you speak your mind.
Delete*** We also like 30-somethings, twenty-somethings, fifty-somethings...
@anon 6.24 Bahahahahaha!! What lies! Go back and look at the thread; it was regulars mostly, everyone on their high horse.
DeleteI spoke up to call out the hypocrisy, despite not really liking VV's very sexist comment, I certainly did NOT think it warranted the ridiculous freak out that ensued. It really was ridiculous, but to blame it on trolls is so rich! Come on!
Oh...Gryphen...Gryphen...Gryphen!
ReplyDeleteYou know you are about to catch some serious hell in these comments...right?
LMAO...and getting popcorn and pepsi at the ready! LOL!!
Hey GinaM,
DeleteLove your comments but the constant "LOL, LMAO" is getting tired.
Anonymous4:21 PM
DeleteOkay...how bout....BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Better for ya'! LOL X 100!
LOL - LMAO - ROFLMAO - LMFAO !!!!
DeleteDon't leave out....TeeHee...hahahahaha...SNORT...GIGGLE...let's get it all out y'all! LOL!!!
DeleteGina, you're too damn funny. Stop.
DeleteNo, really, with the shitty week I've had, I've had to bite my tongue to keep from being ugly to people for being TOO polite and TOO respectful. Now that the work week is over, I'm glad I did, because the problem wasn't with everybody else --- it was me, believe it or not.
LOL Yes, LOL goddamit!
After a couple of beers here and a little decompression, I'm glad I disappeared into my office instead of taking it out on a couple of great people.
So I'm gonna stick up for my bud, Gina here. There's no such thing as too much laughter, too happy, too much fun, too much joy, too much love, too much promptness, etc.
I think Gina has a great laugh. So there.
DeleteBoney and hrh...I have been SO FREAKING HAPPY since the election! I REFUSE to let the Debbie Downers pee on my parade!
DeleteAnd let me tell you why...my family and I are going to the Inauguration in January...and my son just told me that he will be transfering from his job on the East Coast and will be in the same state as all of us!
Which is why I can't stop smiling or laughing...and any trolls who don't care for my joy...in the words of Flo from Alice...they can kiss my grits! LOL!!!
So trolls...be ready for me to keep on laughing...and if I'm really in the mood...I may just *GUFFAW*! LOL!!!
You go, Girl!
Delete(Eeek, did I just say that?!?! Oy.)
Congrats on your boy moving closer to ya.
DeleteBut I'm green with envy about you going to the inauguration.
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Way to go Gina! Love your updates, posts and smack downs of the trollie.
DeleteTime to invest in Purina Troll Chow (that IS what you use, right?)
Don't Stop LOL'ing!!
AWWWW SHITTT Boney! No you didn't post "my name is Gumby damnit"! LMAO!!
DeleteAnd Anita...ya' know I watched Baldy acting and looking a fool on Greg's...oppss...I mean Greta tonight...I posted it on the Baldy thread! HeHe!
Boney, glad you got to decompress!
DeleteIts friday.
Its been a shitty week b/c Pluto & Mars is playing in everyone's astrology.
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Glad you feel better now :)
GinaM is a most awesome! And I'm happy too b/c I'm going to the inauguration with her!
CWL
@BoneyBooBoo
DeleteHey darlin'. You know who you'd also really love? Dane Cook! Man, honestly that guy is the greatest stand up; crowds at Madison Square Gardens can't be wrong! Two and a Half Men - great show, and the jokes are so clever, you can never predict what they'll say! It's that good! Also, According to Jim and similar sitcoms are always hilarious. Also that guy with the skeleton terrorist puppet Akmed or something? Gold!!!!
At least they didn't put Bachmann in charge of the Intel Committee, nor Virginia Foxx in charge of, oh, women's issues? Candice was a pretty good Sec. of State, actually. She was at the time a pretty moderate Republican.
ReplyDeleteSally in MI, do you remember how she ran for Sec'y of State saying that her name wouldn't appear on the office signs? Well, her name did appear on all of the signs. I think Boehner will be afraid of her though. Serves him right - nothing but styrofoam plates for Boehner; the rest can have crystal plastic!
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Yes the rethuglicans are sexist dips. However, you judging Rep. Candace Miller on her looks makes you a sexist as well.
ReplyDeleteNews flash G. She's a fairly regular representation of what late 50s to early 60s aged women look like. Why don't we judge her on her actions and abilities, as we judge men, rather than on her looks?
Exactly. This is a what a 58-year-old woman looks like who chooses not to rely on makeup. She looks no-nonsense, not scary; Republicans could use more of those. Her daughter is a member of United Auto Workers. There's hope.
DeleteNot sure where you live but she is not representative of the average 50 or 60 year old in my community. Not that looks matter with regards to this post, but your generalization of what 50 or 60 year olds look like is way off the mark.
DeleteFifty or sixty years ago, that woulda been true.
DeleteThe vitriol should be more spread because of what committee she was assigned to: not transportation, not health, not science...but CATERING??!!!
DeleteIssue should not be her looks.
(Having said that, I'm 58, and don't look ANYTHING like Rep. Miller...so those who are commenting on she is "typical" need glasses)
She's a sick woman. Some thyroid meds she will look completely different.
DeleteWhen Gloria Steinem said, "This is what 50 looks like," she didn't mean most 50-year-olds looked like she did.
DeleteI was not suggesting most 58-year-olds look like Rep. Miller. But some do. And I respect the right of her and Mrs. Petraeus and other public figures not to doll themselves up.
"Oh! Well, she's you know...holy crap!
ReplyDeleteI'm shocked you would make such an ignorant, sexist remark, Gryphen. No, seriously. Where are the degrading remarks about all those "stud muffin" men?
Where are those pictures? How did I miss them? I demand a repeat!
DeleteDid someone put in a request for stud-muffins?
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Here I am having fun in Vegas. Please note that the small blemish on my chin has now almost cleared up, so I assure you that I am even hotter now, ladies!
P.S. I'm also saving $10 per paycheck to go towards some new glasses next summer, but until then, I can see just great with these for now!
so you write a post about the sexism shown by the lack of female chairpersons and the type of committee that finally got one, but open and close it by commenting on a woman's physical appearance?
ReplyDeletegryph, that type of sexist behavior is the root of the problem!
gross headline "that's a woman?", and when you said "let's take a look at her" i was expecting that you were being figurative and we were about to "look" at her record in politics..... nope. just going to act like she's a terrible monster because, what? she's older and not thin? you find her kinda ugly? just exactly like nearly every single man she works with? but because she's a woman we should totally judge her on how she looks, not what she's actually done as a politician....
that made me feel pretty ill. and very disappointed in you.
I agree. Take any one of the men's pictures above and let's make comments about their looks. You won't find any great lookers among those pictures from what I can see, but then I don't judge people by their looks.
Deleteand even worse, we know gryph considers himself a feminist, and generally isn't an asshole, SO this kind of thing just shows how very deeply sexism runs in our culture and how fully normalized and "automatic" it is.
ReplyDelete"feminism: the radical notion that women are people."
not brainless baby-makers, not pretty things to look at, not possessions, just PEOPLE!
Amen.
DeleteOkay for the record I am not suggesting that Rep. Miller is not qualified, nor am I judging her on her age.
ReplyDeleteI simply found it rather humorous that after essentially giving EVERY prestigious committee chairmanship away to men, Boehner then gives her one of the two remaining lesser positions. and in doing so chooses somebody who seems rather strikingly unfeminine.
That to me seemed rather of ironic.
As for the photo, that was the first one I stumbled across and it literally reminds me of a woman who watched me as a child and regularly beat me for every minor infraction of the rules that she could imagine.
So yes, the face in the photos is much like the one that once haunted my nightmares.
Other than that, I am sure she is a lovely person.
dick cheney in drag
Deletewhy does it matter if she's "strikingly unfeminine"? some weird "he couldn't have a man, so he found a woman who looked like a man, hahah bro!" joke?
Deletelike when that fox affiliate anchor lady dismissively called rachel maddow "an angry young man" joke?
that still isn't funny.
so this miller woman might have been born less than conventionally attractive, and she's 58 and not wearing makeup. kim f-ing kardashian looks fairly "unfeminine" with no makeup on! the point is that you don't introduce male politicians this way, based solely on their looks. i think you're not getting it yet......
I agree they gave her a non-prestigious position, likely because she's a woman. But then you add insult to injury with your comments on her looks. Sounds exactly like stuff I've read at c4p about the 'ugly' liberal women.
DeleteCome on, we're better than that. Aren't we?
Gryphen: No need to apologise for your comments about Miller. I live in Michigan and could say a lot more about her if I was not afraid that my mother would roll over in her grave.
DeleteWow! I'm so proud of the Grand Old WhiteMale Party! They've found a woman to be in charge of a chair..and not just move it to sweep under it...
ReplyDeleteI read her job responsibilities elsewhere and it sounds like she'll basically be, more or less, a housekeeper. Gee, sounds so..........................Republican.
ReplyDelete"Morality is not determined by the church you attend nor the faith you embrace. It is determined by the quality of your character and the positive impact you have on those you meet along your journey"
ReplyDeleteJust another example of why you need to change the wording of your masthead.
"Rather strikingly unfeminine"? Gryphen, you better quit while you're ahead.
ReplyDeleteCandice Miller can't do much about her physical appearance. She's a woman in late middle age who doesn't appear to have been blessed with extraordinary looks.
LIKE MOST OF US.
Don't hate on her for what she can't help.
Hate on her for her shitty record.
Very well said - thanks
DeleteYou defend Hillary Clinton, who face it, even on her best days, even when she was younger, was truly no "looker" but you take on all haters when anyone dares to say anything about her physical appearance. Pamela Gellar is a totally hot and very doable woman, but she is a complete republican rightwing lunatic. However, based upon this most recent post, you perhaps would rather see someone hot and pretty like Pamela, or even aging hot like Sarah Palin, be in this committee position rather than this rather dowdy older conservative woman. Make up your mind.
ReplyDeleteDepends on the weather. Nutcases need not apply.
DeleteAh, the REAL power in any household, as any housewife will tell you, is who holds the checkbook. Looks like this committee holds has the power so to speak over the daily activities of Congress. So no boys, you will not be able to have those Hooter's waitresses serve at your next "committee" meeting luncheon. LOL.
ReplyDeleteShit! I make a motion that we impeach our fellow congressional lady friend here!
DeleteNo Hooters for lunch? That's unpatriotic!
I think it's funny that the repugs always claim that THEIR women are more attractive than Democratic women.
ReplyDeleteSeems they found a look alike for an old white man.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Anon 4:48, for posting Miller's appalling voting record. I'd never heard of her until John of Orange dubbed her the paper-or-plastic go-to gal... Everybody, click on that link!
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, dear lady. You've been missed.
DeleteI always thought you had a deep and abiding respect for women. You joking about your crass remarks is making it worse. First rule of holes is: As soon as you realize you are in a hole, quit digging. Man up and apologize.
ReplyDeleteI judge no woman on their looks - but I do wonder about their choice of political party. No woman who cares about her female friends, relatives and/or descendants could possibly be a friend to members of a party who treat women with the utter disrespect thrown around by the old white men of the GOP.
ReplyDeleteI would respect Ms Miller more if she told them what to do with their job - and she worked from within to stop the never ending attacks on women's right to control their own bodies and lives.
Well said.
DeleteI live in Michigan. This woman has frightened me for years. She used to be the Secretary of State. I could care not a toot what she looks like, it is what she did and does that is scary.
ReplyDeleteThose Repug Congressional Committee Chairmen all look like a bunch of Howdy-Doodies to me. If they're getting any "strange" hooty-hoo-hoo in D.C., rest assured they're paying for it.
ReplyDeleteWhat Candice has is a big ol' goiter that she really out to have checked out.
ReplyDeleteI'll reserve any comment on her looks because it's been covered already (Though I do think she should get her thyroid gland checked, just in case), but after clicking the link on her record, what makes Orange Man think she's capable of carrying such a high pressure job? (cough cough)
ReplyDeleteWith the results of the election, and the demographics problem, wouldn't a spanish speaking african american woman help them check off more boxes? (I'm using GOP logic here, in other words, it's reality based observation on my part from their past behavior).
Sounds like they made her their administrative assistant, or what used to be called a secretary. I don't think making fun of what she looks like is appropriate though. She has little enough respect from her Republican colleagues.
ReplyDeleteExactly my thoughts Nancy. This is the oldest Good Ole Boy trick in the books. She can't do the heavy jobs, let's just give her admin. The little lady can't do much harm there and we have our "girl". And, speaking of her looks, Griff's picture is much kinder than the one Rachel used. She surely fit in with the old geezers with that picture.
DeleteOh, and I don't know what the hell it is with the ageist comments, but you have 60's readers too. And, speaking personally, some of us look pretty darn good.
DeleteCan't find the pic that Rachel had on her show last night, but she had very little hair, again probably thyroid related. This was the best I could do picture wise.
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Your rude comment about this woman's appearance negated everything else you had to say. I love coming to this blog,but lowering yourself to the level of the people you are railing against is not helpful.
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