It’s not just corporate pork that is surviving the “merciless” budget axe of the Republican Congress. Feminist pork is making out nicely, too.
The other day the House voted 294-129 to revive the Women’s Educational Equity Act, or WEEA, which it had sensibly left unfunded for a whole year. This boondoggle addresses the bogus problem of lack of educational opportunity for females (who enter and graduate from college in greater numbers than men), as well as the scourge of “sexual harassment” (different, it seems, from childish taunting and adolescent crudeness) in the nation’s schools.
Losing their nerve, 101 House Republicans bowed to the apparently formidable lobbying of colleagues Connie Morella and Nancy Johnson, who backed the Democratic amendment. Democrats, of course, believe in taxpayer funding of feminist advocacy (there is what amounts to a WEEA publishing house) and genderequity watchdogs in the education bureaucracy — but John Kasich?
The case for WEEA rests on research than which it is not possible to be more thoroughly debunked. If Republicans won’t stand up and say so — at a time when urgent problems genuinely plague the nation’s schools — why should anyone vote for them? And will the Republican Senate so foolishly cave?
