The Battle Biased Against Women
In American history, the battle between Congress and the president has never stopped for even one second. The check and balance system guarantees both Congress and the president can oversee each other`s powers and veto its opponent`s decisions. Especially when the ideas come from female, Congress is always hard to be persuaded on these opinions. In the very beginning, there was no business related to women in this inherent war because those sexist founding fathers did not give voting right to female voters. After ladies got right to vote from the Amendment XIX of the Constitution, American women thought that they finally have same discourse power equal to men. However, actually, even in today, it is harder for any female candidate to compete for power than a male candidate. It is because that the whole government system, which includes legislative, executive, and judicial, is biased against women. And people can easily find the evidence from Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Elena Kagan`s experience and encounters.
Congress had defeated Hillary Clinton`s healthcare bill when she was still First Lady. This tarnished her reputation considerably, and was looked upon as a rebuke from Congress. The 1993 reform of health care was considered a bill would be submitted by Congress by most citizens. However, after an over one year debate, neither the Senate nor the House wanted to enact First Lady`s proposal into the law. Republican senators Bob Dole and Phil Gramm smeared Ms. Clinton with many sexist words. Congress made all the effort made by Hillary Clinton meaningless (Marafiote 1). By contrast with Obama, who also struggled to reform the health care, though there was also a long debate among those congressmen, the Obamacare finally got approved by both of the Senate and the House. What if the 1993 health care plan were claimed by President Clinton not his wife? Congress would probably consider the plan in a different angle because it is not biased to a male. On the other hand, many people had expressed a certain annoyance at Hillary Clinton since before Bill was elected President. They hadn`t liked the Clinton`s boast of “you get two for one” as a characterization of the next Presidency, and there was a shrewd and sometimes not-so-subtle undercurrent of grumbling that Hillary was trying to push through legislature when she was, in fact, an “unelected” First Lady. Many in Congress harbored certain resentment toward the Clinton way of doing things, so Hillary`s re-emergence as a candidate in 2008 awakened early semi-grudges. Despite having been elected Senator to the third largest state in the nation, there were still mutters among Congress about “qualifications”, despite her having arguably more qualifications than Obama. Endorsements in Congress were tepid in the best of times during Clinton`s 2008 campaign, and were insufficient (Finlay 59).
Sarah Palin, as she had been elected vice President, would have held an important position in Congress, as the official tie breaking vote in the Senate. Naturally, the Senate takes a hard look at those who would become its president, and Palin was held too much scrutiny. The tone of much discourse in and out of Congress divided very sharply among party lines, although somewhat less sharply among women. Much of Palin`s role in the campaign was as tireless stump speech giver, and rallyer of crowds. As such, it led to many bloopers that revealed potential flaws in Palin as a viable candidate. While candidate bloopers and blunders during a campaign has always been fodder for merriment among the opposing party, with Palin the ridicule took on towering proportions. The ridicule focused on her general knowledge, her parenting skills, her family, and how she looked. For instance, Democratic Congressman Charlie Rangel described Palin a handicap (Finlay 163). Another example would be the issue gay marriage, when Obama was justifying for homosexual relationship, in fact, Sarah Palin had vetoed an anti-gay legislation during her governor term, but during the election, most people just ignored this (Finlay 162). Male candidates have not been subjected to such openly hostile derision in or out of Congress. Although Palin had done her best in the debate with Joe Biden, those senators and representatives still thought Palin was not qualified to lead a nation (Finlay 164).
Obama appointee Elena Kagan had to undergo a grueling vetting process and vote by the Senate in order to become confirmed as justice on the Supreme Court. The familiar “lack of experience” argument was brought up again, as were strongly worded questions and comments from the conservatives in Congress, who responded very unfavorably toward her nomination. In the Senate Judiciary Committee`s vote, only one Republican senator support Kagan`s nomination. And in whole Senate`s vote, only five Republicans voted to confirm, and one Democrat voted against her nomination (Halloran 1). And even Kagan has become the fourth female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; her authority is still suspected and challenged by Congress. Because of Kagan was the former administration’s Solicitor General, Congress tried to prove that Kagan had involved into the issue of Obama Care. If this conjecture were confirmed by the court, then Congress could impeach her from the seat of judge unless Kagan recuse herself from any cases about Obama Care (Jeffrey 1).
Though American women`s opinion have become more important to the politic issues, they still cannot perform same influence as men. The real question is how much of the negative reaction toward these candidates is due to actual gender bias, and how much is due to policy statements and the actions of the candidate. However, it is clear that there is indeed a bias present, and it permeates itself in subtle and not subtle ways both in and out of Congress. Washington needs more females to let Congress get more done.

Works Cited
Jeffrey, Terence P. "CNSNews.com." Kagan Sits in Judgment of Obamacare-Despite Cheering Its Passage and Assigning Lawyer to Defend It. CNSNews.com, 26 Mar. 2012. Web. 21 July 2012.
Marafiote, Frank. "Who Killed Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform?" Who Killed Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform? Hillary Clinton Quarterly, n.d. Web. 21 July 2012.
Halloran, Liz. "Senate Confirms Kagan To U.S. Supreme Court." NPR. NPR, 05 Aug. 2010. Web. 21 July 2012.
Finlay, Anita. Dirty Words on Clean Skin: Sexism and Sabotage: A Hillary Supporter's Rude Awakening. United States: Golden Middleway Books, 2012. Print.