NOW gets in a huff with Jake Tapper:

We asked Terry O’Neill, the new president of the National Organization for Women, what she thought of those Democratic women and others quietly complaining about a “boy’s club” atmosphere at the White House, as exemplified by the president playing basketball earlier this month with 11 members of Congress and four Cabinet Secretaries — all men.

…In his first year, President Obama has appointed more women to his Cabinet and Cabinet-level positions — seven out of 22 positions — than any president before him. President George W. Bush appointed four women to positions of that status; President Bill Clinton appointed six.

But to O’Neill that’s not enough.

“It’s extremely important now especially for the president to have as many women as men in his closest circle of advisors. … If women had been at the heads of the companies on Wall Street instead of these masters of the universe then we might not be in the predicament that we’re in today.” She says the ratio “needs to be 50/50. Women are 52 percent of the voting public so obviously there needs to be 50/50 of any Cabinet.”

We need quotas!   Nothing Barack Obama will ever do will please these people.  He gets no sympathy, because he and his ilk are the ones who constantly stir them up.  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again:  when you live by identity politics, you die by identity politics.

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