Politico is reporting:

Wasserman-Schultz: GOP Gave Women "Back of the Hand"

by Ben Smith, Politico

Monday 09 November 2009

On a conference call (.mp3) with reporters today, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz seems to have upped the rhetorical ante in the push to cast Republican parliamentary tactics  as sexist, comparing their repeated interruptions to violence against women.

She told reporters she wanted to "express and underscore my concern over essentially what amounts to the Republicans' 'back-of-the-hand' treatment to women, issues that are important to women, particularly women's health."

"We already have had a clear sense that republicans were opposed to our efforts at advancing women's health interests. Now we know that they are opposed to letting women voice their opinions on health care as well," she said. "I've been in office for 17 years, and I have never seen a more disrespectful display than the one put on by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle Saturday morning, when they literally shouted down a group of female members who were just trying to discuss how the House health care reform bill will help women."