<p>Its not too soon that, mini and spouse, be gone to Italy. BTW find some nice prunes.</p>
<p>How do we know fancy technology was used? She’s still in her 30’s; a friend with an eyedropper is all she’d likely need.</p>
<p>I think its usually a turkey baster - or other delivery device ;)</p>
<p>A turkey baster - ewww</p>
<p>I’m glad we’re having pot roast.</p>
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<p>Hmmm…in vivo fertilization?</p>
<p>"What I do have concerns about is how any pregnant mother of 4 could have the time and energy to be deputy assistant secretary of state. Seems that instead of being on a leave, she needs to resign. "</p>
<p>Is this choice any of our business?</p>
<p>I heard that Mary Cheney thought David Crosby was too fine a human specimen. So she went for Danny DeVito (after finding out Andy Devine, Don Knotts, and Slim Pickens were no longer with us).</p>
<p>Me: "What I do have concerns about is how any pregnant mother of 4 could have the time and energy to be deputy assistant secretary of state. Seems that instead of being on a leave, she needs to resign. "</p>
<p>Baseballmom “Is this choice any of our business?”</p>
<p>Since our tax money pays her salary and she also has taken leave from an important government job, yes, what she’s doing is our business.</p>
<p>NSM:</p>
<p>If every woman who gave birth to a child had to resign rather than take a leave of absence, the cause of gender equality would be tremendously compromised. I don’t care whether the woman in question is a government employee or works in the private sector. As for the number of children a woman wishes to have, this is again totally her own business. And we should mind ours–which is not how many children other people have, by what means, and with whom.</p>
<p>off my soapbox.</p>
<p>Should I ask the women who work for me who are taking maternity leave to resign? I think my work is important.</p>
<p>condsidering Bush’s lack of support for family leave, this reeks of hypocracy…yeah, she is Cheney’s daughter, but she got that job because of connections…good thing Daddy went to bat to protect family leave, not wait he didn’t…that would involve being concerned about Americans…</p>
<p>We are at war and Cheney’s daughter is an assistant secretary of state. By her taking a long leave of absence, either an interim will have to do her job or her job will need to be distributed among her coworkers. I do think that being an ass’t secretary of state is a more important job than most jobs.</p>
<p>I have the same problem with this as I’d have if the president wanted to take a long leave of absence. If he needed that much time off, then IMO, he should resign and let the VP permanently handle his responsibilities.</p>
<p>Seems to me that if Cheney’s D cared about the country, she wouldn’t be expecting that her job would be held, but would take time off and then be amenable to being switched to another job. Of course, if when she’s taking time off, no one misses her, that’s another problem indeed.</p>
<p>She is a “principal deputy assitant secretary of state” - not exactly in charge of negotiating with Iran over nuclear weapons. Here is one of the things that she was involved with:</p>
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<p>I think the camel jockeys will deal with her leave of absence.</p>
<p>“So let me get this straight: Cheney’s daughter is not only gay, but now she’s going to be an unwed mother? What are those Republicans coming to?”</p>
<p>Ha! I love it!</p>
<p>NSM:</p>
<p>Sorry, that won’t wash. Either you support maternity leave for ALL women, no matter what work they do, or you don’t.</p>
<p>I don’t support extended leave with a promise of keeping the same job for anyone in a job that is important such as something involving national security. I do think that people who have family emergencies or health emergencies should be guaranteed a job after their time off, but not necessarily the job that they took an extended leave from.</p>
<p>Given what Funding Father has posted, it doesn’t seem like Cheney’s D’s job is in that category. It seems like it’s probably a well paying job with a nice title that she got for being the VP’s D. Frankly, her job sounds like a waste of my tax money.</p>
<p>Oh, NSM, come off it. you would deny her a right that has been hard earned by and for other women because you don’t like her politics. She is not the first woman in an important position who has taken a leave of absence, nor will she be the last. And perhaps, another woman in an equally important position will want to take a leave of absence. If she is on your political wavelength, will you complain about the waste of your tax dollars? There’s plenty of govt waste. Did I not just recently read that about $1 billion worth of Katrina relief was mishandled? What’s Mary Cheney’s salary compared to that?
For the record, I have never supported the war in Iraq. those who go back on CC will recall that I predicted the mess we’re in right now. But fair is fair. Mary Cheney has the same right as other women.</p>
<p>Marite,
I think you have the daughters confused. It is the other daughter Elizabeth who is assistant secretary of state and is taking a leave. She is expecting her 5th child. Mary does not work for the government.</p>
<p>It’s NSM who is confused. I’m just responding to her.</p>
<p>My belief in the value of extended leave for mothers, which honors motherhood, overshadows any concern there might be for taxpayer dollars. We have fought too hard to gain respect as women and as mothers. We should not have to deny our fertility, our motherhood, our femininity, in order to compete with men. We should be empowered as women, and as women, that sometimes includes motherhood.</p>