The Senate's 'iron woman' - TheHill.com

Operative quote:

"“Her body of work, the fact that she’s now the longest-serving female senator, her efforts on behalf of educational initiatives, veterans’ affairs, women’s health issues, I think all combined to make her an exceptional candidate,” said Christine Moulton, executive director of the Hall.

“I am so honored to be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame,” Mikulski wrote in an e-mail to The Hill. “My fellow inductees inspire women around the world with their strength, courage and commitment to service.”Among the other 2011 inductees are such trailblazers as jazz great Billie Holiday and civil rights advocate Coretta Scott King. This year’s class also features a familiar face for the Maryland senator: that of the namesake of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which passed in 2009 and for which Mikulski was a co-sponsor."

 So I read this: “My fellow inductees inspire women around the world with their strength, courage and commitment to service.” I first thought who is this woman? I've never heard of her! Then I wondered what is the "National Women’s Hall of Fame?" I had no idea this even existed! So I wondered, if I, an American citizen, who has never heard of the "longest-serving female senator" and the "National Women's Hall of Fame" how "inductees inspire women around the world" when 99.9% of the women in the world have never heard of these people. It is clearly a stretch to imagine the Honorable Sen. Barbara Mikulski having anything but a breath of influence to the World. Then I reread her accomplishments and suddenly it all became clear. "...educational initiatives, veterans’ affairs, women’s health issues..." and "Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act" are why I have never heard of her - these are non-issues. These are problems conjured up in Western Universities - Women's studies courses to conjure up victims needing the Honorable Sen. Barbara Mikulski's to muddle around in their business. Which is why she has no influence over 99.9 % of the Worlds women these are non-issues to them also. If she really wanted to have an influence she would co-sponsor real bills addressing real problems like: clean water, vaccinations for childhood diseases, China's one child policy - female genocide, the slave trade in women, persecution of Christians, increasing western style democracy (So women can be born, live, go to school, not be prostituted, vote, have children, granchildren and great-grandchildren and the ability to choose all this, receive protection from their governments and not have it taken away from them at any moment)