children from low income families from the free school lunch program. democrats have introduced a bill called the pregnant workers fairness act which would require employers could make reasonable workplace accommodation for pregnant women. this won t get the cover of time magazine because it s not as sexy as breast-feeding until they re four in the mommy wars. the buffett rule, we heard it was a scam it was only going to raise $50 billion and not going to put a dent in our budget crisis, but a lot of the items on this list, with $50 billion, you could eliminate the cuts to the block grant program. like suddenly kind of $50 billion becomes really important to cut out of the budget deficit when it s coming out of programs for women and children. i think there s a relationship between being able to pass those things as a republican and still say you re pro family.
can be toward other people and create expectations where you have to breastfeed or do certain things, even the time magazine cover, are you mom enough omen catty to other women, frankly, i don t think men carry how long you breastfeed. we re creating, this mother culture where you re judging other mothers and saying you re not doing it right, i m doing it right. is she doing it right. i hear it all the time. she has weekend baby sitting. all of these strange judgments, who cares what goes on. who sets that up? who sets that up? when you come up with an idea like mommy wars, like who creates that term? right? i mean i, mommy war, first of all, we re not at war, we re not killing each other, war is where you shoot each other and you die, right. so this construct that gets set up. it s kind of elevated the cat fight. that somebody has an idea of like you re either a working mom
stage of development. they don t breastfeed in france. the lowerest rate of breastfeeding in the western world. the highest birth rate. the much better health outcomes, no mommy wars and more pragmatic. the government supports moms in a way that american moms are not supported. how much of what we have in the u.s. at this moment is a product of a certain set of cultural expectations and how much of it is the policy framework? you talk bur child in the creche in france which is the universal day care pre-k. which i was terrified of. i was terrified of the french public day care. i m sending my kid to the post office. it s wonderful, all the middle class moms are competing to get a spot. it s the preferred type of child care and of course it makes everything much easier. it makes it easier to go back to
of course, yeah. she is a very, she is a very effective surrogate. she is humanizing for romney. he plays off her really well. but the thing is, this mommy wars stuff is always, this is just ongoing. this is just something that you ve heard about it and read, if you re a woman and have kids or you re a woman and you work. there is always that divide. and this obviously was stirred up a few week ago with the hilary rosen comments. but these women are going to be a key target demographic. and that s why you re going to see restore our future and other groups try to bring it back up. all right. thank you very much. great seeing you. and you re one tough boy. developing now, president obama getting ready to land in seattle for some star studded fund-raisers on the west coast. the main event, i m sure you ve heard by now. dinner in george clooney s home in studio city. that by the way, the most raised
women s issues as we saw dramatically re-enacted in game change from the 2008 election. republicans cannot win if they have a gender gap in double digits. and right now, that looks exactly like what we have right now. and you look at women voters, it is a double digit lead for president obama. ahead 49% to 39%. among women. joe, this isn t a gender gap. it s a gender canyon we have got going on between the democrats and the republicans at the moment. and you re right, they can t win unless they do something about trying to reach out to women. and i think the underlying issue here is not only stuff about mommy wars that we have seen recently. i think that s kind of irrelevant frankly. it s the perception that republicans have been trying to push positions on women s health that are not supportive of women. and i think that s what women in the center particularly of this political spectrum are finding so distasteful, if you like,