True progressives, with good reason, are very disheartened right now. How about making a renewed commitment to the promotion of women in all areas of endeavor? But especially in politics. As Diane Tucker reminded us last December, while encouraging more women to run for office,

“Governments with more women legislators are more productive,” noted the World Economic Forum.

“National parliaments with the largest numbers of women have the lowest levels of corruption,” reported the World Bank.

So, are you up for it, progressives? Stop the crying, and let’s get started. – Caro

The Female Century

By Brent Budowsky

With the House of Representative’s passage of the healthcare bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has cemented her standing as one of the great Speakers in modern history.

Receiving her Academy Award for Best Director for the brilliant and important motion picture “The Hurt Locker,” Kathryn Bigelow shattered another glass ceiling and brought warmth to the hearts of Americans who honor the men and women who serve our country…

With official Washington unpopular throughout the nation, first lady Michelle Obama has earned sky-high levels of trust and good will from Americans across the political spectrum.

Regarding the scandals of Wall Street and finance, how many perp-walks have involved women? Meanwhile, the National Venture Capital Association recently selected Kate Mitchell, a leading venture capitalist, to be its chairman, making Mitchell a national leader among risk-takers and job-creators.

By no later than 2016, both major political parties could nominate women to lead their tickets to be elected as the president who follows Barack Obama.

As the last century ended, current Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was former President Bill Clinton’s wife. As the new century began, Bill Clinton was Hillary Clinton’s husband!…

In our current season of discontent, l suggest that if the last century was the age when the American idea advanced great aspirations for all, the current century will be the age that brings full realization, across the nation and around the world, of the notion that all people are created equal.

Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and Bill Alexander, then chief deputy majority whip of the House. He holds an LL.M. degree in international financial law from the London School of Economics. He can be read on The Hill’s Pundits Blog and reached at brentbbi@webtv.net.

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