It seems a mopey Joe Biden is spending his final weeks as president trying to convince Americans that he did great things for the country during his four long years in office.
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Biden spoke Sunday at the Democrat National Committee Holiday Reception and rattled off a litany of so-called achievements:
🚨 BIDEN: “We’ve run a campaign that’s basically scandal free. That’s hard to do in American politics.”
(Except covering up his obvious cognitive decline, peddling his family’s influence, hiding classified documents, etc etc etc) pic.twitter.com/ey4gGYG8W8
— Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) December 15, 2024
It goes without saying that all such claims by the enfeebled president are demonstrably false. Consider: Bidenflation. Botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Pardon-palooza. Mishandling of classified documents. Weaponizing his Justice Department. Failing to secure the release of the hostages in Gaza.
All of that barely scratches the surface of just how bad of a president Biden has been. The fact is that Joe Biden will go down in history as one of our country’s worst, with a recent poll showing his abysmal performance over the past four years has earned him the bottom-most position.
What’s a washed up politician to do to save his legacy with scant little time to do it? Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) thinks she has the perfect solution: Make the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) a Constitutional amendment.
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In the last few weeks of President Biden’s term, he has the opportunity to enshrine equality in our Constitution and protect reproductive freedom for all. Let’s get it done! pic.twitter.com/CI5HF8K5Oq
— Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (@gillibrandny) December 13, 2024
The Sunday version of The New York Times published a grotesque leftist wish list of things a weird assortment of people — Rick Steves and weed? — want Biden to do before he’s booted from The White House. The premise? Biden couldn’t debase himself anymore than he did by pardoning his own son, so he might as well do all sorts of additional shameful things.
Gillibrand is running with the idea, writing:
With Republicans set to take unified control of government, Americans are facing the further degradation of reproductive freedom.
Fortunately, Mr. Biden has the power to enshrine reproductive rights in the Constitution right now. He can direct the national archivist to certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment. This would mean that the amendment has been officially ratified and that the archivist has declared it part of the Constitution.
She thinks she’s got it all figured out, saying “I’ve never done more legal analysis and work since I was a lawyer.” Here’s the gist of it:
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Both houses of Congress approved the amendment in 1972, but it was not ratified by the states in time to be added to the Constitution. Ms. Gillibrand has been pushing a legal theory that the deadline for ratification is irrelevant and unconstitutional. All that remains, she argues, is for Mr. Biden to direct the national archivist, who is responsible for the certification and publication of constitutional amendments, to publish the E.R.A. as the 28th Amendment.
Leave it to the Democrats to think this fossilized amendment will save their fossilized president. One tiny problem: Biden doesn’t seem to want to meet with Gillibrand. She’s reportedly trying to get to him through Kamala Harris, but, well, Kamala is dealing with some things right now.
The late Phyllis Schlafly wrote her seminal “What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women?” essay back in 1972, and every one of her points from then holds true today.
Why should we trade in our special privileges and honored status for the alleged advantage of working in an office or assembly line? Most women would rather cuddle a baby than a typewriter or factory machine. Most women find that it is easier to get along with a husband than a foreman or office manager. Offices and factories require many more menial and repetitious chores than washing dishes and ironing shirts. Women’s libbers do not speak for the majority of American women. American women do not want to be liberated from husbands and children.
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Schlafly circa 1972 is pure gold: “The ‘women’s lib’ movement is not an honest effort to secure better jobs for women who want or need to work outside the home. This is just the superficial sweet-talk to win broad support for a radical ‘movement.’ Women’s lib is a total assault on the role of the American woman as wife and mother, and on the family as the basic unit of society.”
The ERA is like something from a time capsule; it seems vaguely familiar but completely foreign all at the same time. Gillibrand’s harebrained idea to resurrect it in order to rescue Joe Biden’s “legacy” will never work, mostly because, as Schlafly so ably pointed out all those years ago, it’s not needed.
