Where’s the National Organization for Women when you need it?
Or Sandra Fluke, who led a cheering Democratic Convention through the so-called Republican War on Women?
Or Nancy Pelosi, who in her own attack at that same convention asked of Republicans, “Where are the women?”
Someone ought to ask these women what they think of Democrats who tried to take advantage of a Republican mom who left the Washington state Senate floor for a few minutes to breast-feed her baby.
The senator is Janea Holmquist Newbry, part of a Republican-led coalition that enjoys a one-vote majority. The Washington State Wire reports that earlier this week she took a break to nurse her four-month-old son. Quickly, the Democrat minority moved to demand an immediate vote on a bill not on the schedule.
In the end, Holmquist Newbry made it back in time to cast the deciding vote against the bill. The irony, as WSW also reports, is that it all went down almost 20 years to the day after a similar incident in the same legislative chamber.
Back in 1993, Sen. Lisa Brown was ordered to remove her 1-year-old son from the floor during a late-night session, where she’d brought him after failing to find a babysitter. That garnered national attention — but then, Lisa Brown was a Democrat.
We’re still waiting to hear from the state’s two female US senators, Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray. Or from former Gov. Christine Gregoire.
They’re all Democrats, too.