Emily's List President Stephanie Schriock with Hillary Clinton

It's a little schizoid with Democratic leadership saying they will support anti-choice candidates in what can only be called an abandonment of the party's long-standing commitment to a woman's right to control her own body autonomy. The Boys Club is rolling in high gear in Democratic politics, giving us more migraines in Trumplandia. Who do we trust? The Washington Post shares good news.

EMILY's List is putting 50 House and Senate Republicans "On Notice" for 2018 in a new campaign. Hopefully, Emily's List will also take seriously the threat from Democratic leadership and develop -- in concert with Planned Parenthood, NARAL and other non-negotiable stalwarts of women's rights -- a strategy to deal with this self-defeating Democratic-leadership male stupidity. We can then contribute to special campaigns targeting anti-choice Democratic candidates wooed by the new Democrats Boys Club. They've got my money.

Maybe Hillary Can Help

Onward Together, the political action group formed earlier this year between Hillary Clinton and former Vermont governor and DNC chair Howard Dean, has hired Emmy Ruiz and Adam Parkhomenko, political operative veterans of her 2008 and 2016 presidential campaigns, according to BuzzFeed.

Some Democrats don't want Hillary to have a role at all in Democratic politics. They are often the same Dems who are now willing to sell-out women's rights as identity politics, with a new strategy to court anti-choice candidates if their economics are in concert with Democrats.

Ruiz and Parkhomenko, who both started their work at Onward Together this summer, will join a small core team that includes Dean, the former Vermont governor and DNC chair, along with Judith McHale, an undersecretary under Clinton at the State Department, and Amy Rao, a Silicon Valley businesswoman and a longtime supporter and donor. The aides in Clinton’s New York office, including former campaign vice chair Huma Abedin, finance director Dennis Cheng, and press secretary Nick Merrill, are also working on the project.

This is the EXACT strategy that I said about the Bernie Sanders campaign from day one. As president, I never doubted that Bernie would trade the defunding of Planned Parenthood for an infrastructure bill. His new influence in the Democratic party -- as an Independent -- and this announcement about the party courting candidates not committed to women's body autonomy confirms my deepest suspicions about him and his disproportionately white male supporters. Welcome to Trumplandia. ~ Anne

Texas Congressman Blake Farenthold (right in 2014) says that if three Republican women senators -- Collins, Murkowski, and Capito -- were men, he would challenge them to a duel for their actions in stopping the repeal of Obamacare.

What do you think? I just suggested to my W. VA Dem friends, who are doing such a bang-up job at organizing in Trump country, that they respond to the big shot Texas Congressman Blake Farenthold, who says if the three Republican women Senators were men, he would challenge them to duels -- and presumably be the last man standing, writes the Texas Tribune.

If you remember, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Shelley Moore Capito of W. Va brought the Senate health care strategy to a screeching halt last week. Interviewed by local Corpus Christi radio host Bob Jones on Friday, Farenthold said: "Some of the people that are opposed to this, there are female senators from the Northeast... If it was a guy from South Texas, I might ask him to step outside and settle this Aaron Burr-style."

I'm not sure the way to repeal Obamacare is by holding a gun to people's heads, but we all know gunslingers get their way in Texas. Apparently, Congressman Farenthold is a colorful Texan -- as many are -- having been charged with sexual harassment in 2014, writes ProgressTexas. I'll bet the 3 Republican women senators are just shaking in their high heels right now, reading about Farenthold's desire to shoot them dead..

If Texas Republican men hadn't raised maternal death rates in the state to third-world country levels, I could laugh over this nonsense. But you are looking at the dudes who make it their business to control the lives, bodies and most every move of Texas women -- and American women nationwide. This East coast elitist is not impressed. Gross!

At least in W. Va, my friends might take him out without firing a shot, given how strategic and successful they are at organizing. Brains over brawn, a true battle of the sexes, and may the ladies take out Texas Congressman Blake Farenthold! ~ Anne