{"id":43475,"date":"2014-07-10T17:30:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T23:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/the-gops-war-on-the-powerpuff-girls.html"},"modified":"2014-07-13T10:46:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T16:46:03","slug":"the-gops-war-on-the-powerpuff-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/the-gops-war-on-the-powerpuff-girls.html","title":{"rendered":"The GOP&#39;s War on the Powerpuff Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Not that they&#39;re criticizing them &#8212; they&#39;re <i>damaging the brand<\/i> by having them be the headline graphic for the John Boehner&#39;s House GOP web page about how the GOP really loves women and wants them to work more hours and burning more gasoline (or something like that).<\/p>\n<p>If I were Cartoon Network, I&#39;d be having my lawyers call their lawyers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/106790394183446968954'>David Badash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just. So. Wrong.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='overflow:hidden;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/90J3ysbiG_MxaPHRQiWbBM4Us0uNXJJXNN4GmbYUDM7eXtEflssbJG20Kyl1zgnMg9v7vu0jCoVTw5MGiJiu2QaXra4W_DZBfuZMeVTbRc4w2ByP6j4OckyLl79-6EgXhcnzBmoh3oOONffNBWI9R65N_RJMoDrfpdKS56n9RFCgOA=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com\/john_boehner_s_miracle_solution_to_bad_press_about_gop_war_on_women_powerpuff_girls'>John Boehner&#8217;s Miracle Solution To Mask GOP&#8217;s War On Women? Powerpuff Girls.<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Speaker John Boehner and his merry band of mostly white mostly Christian and overwhelmingly mostly men on the Republican side of the aisle actually believe putting an animated GIF of the Powerpuff Girls atop a set of anti-women, anti-family policies will solve their disastrous record on women&#8217;s rights. \n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/22bdxhDMc8d' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that they&#39;re criticizing them &#8212; they&#39;re damaging the brand by having them be the headline graphic for the John Boehner&#39;s House GOP web page about how the GOP really loves women and wants them to work more hours and burning more gasoline (or something like that). If I were Cartoon Network, I&#39;d be having &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/the-gops-war-on-the-powerpuff-girls.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The GOP&#39;s War on the Powerpuff Girls&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,9,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51758,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/16\/the-planned-parenthood-sting-video-and-the-inevitable-gop-pile-on.html","url_meta":{"origin":43475,"position":0},"title":"The Planned Parenthood sting video and the inevitable GOP pile-on","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Jul-15 10:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's always a good idea to look at the uncut footage whenever anyone comes up with an edited \"sting\" video. 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If so, and if it stays in the public eye for several more months, it's going to have to hurt the GOP presidential candidate -- and, by extension, the rest of the party. #ddtb Embedded Link Centrist\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26486,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/17\/the-gop-wants-everything-about-the-50s-except-progressive-tax-rates-and-union.html","url_meta":{"origin":43475,"position":4},"title":"&quot;The GOP wants everything about the 50s except progressive tax rates and union&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 17-Feb-12 7:53am","format":false,"excerpt":"\"The GOP wants everything about the 50s except progressive tax rates and union jobs\"(That quote, slightly paraphrased for length, is from the comments.)The time travel here was through three particular Republican kerfuffles yesterday that speak volumes about how the GOP's Right Wing thinks about women (and sex):- Rep. 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