http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/06/05/senate-republicans-take-down-the-paycheck-fairness-act Comments On: Senate Republicans Take Down the Paycheck Fairness Act by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
I expect the author is one of those people who's never SEEN a monkey evolve into a person, therefore evolution is false. Makes a great argument for a concept that doesn't exist.
Posted by Ziggity]]> Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:38:19 -0700 The Stranger
Show your work, we'll wait.

Posted by delbert]]> Wed, 06 Jun 2012 07:40:16 -0700 The Stranger Posted by venomlash]]> Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:53:18 -0700 The Stranger http://freebeacon.com/no-equal-pay-for-n…
http://freebeacon.com/senate-dems-betray…

Mea culpa: I wrote Cantwell, I meant Murray.

Hypocrites.
Posted by delbert]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:26:14 -0700 The Stranger
His ass...
Posted by COMTE]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:21:08 -0700 The Stranger
Posted by Max Solomon]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:18:54 -0700 The Stranger
Until then, Democrat's have no credibility. None.
Posted by delbert]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:41:58 -0700 The Stranger Posted by ItsAllOverNow]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:19:34 -0700 The Stranger anything!
Posted by Zebes]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:54:43 -0700 The Stranger Posted by care bear]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:28:19 -0700 The Stranger Posted by DOUG.]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:22:02 -0700 The Stranger
Republicans: "I think American Idol is on..."

Typical citizen: "WOO-HOO! American Idol!!"
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:17:12 -0700 The Stranger Posted by DeaconBlues]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:12:45 -0700 The Stranger Eighty-four percent of those directors are men? Well, there must be some other dumbass explanation that you can just make up then.
Posted by the idiot formerly known as kk]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:03:58 -0700 The Stranger Keep voting against women's interests and see where that gets you, Republicans.

It might get them the Presidency. That's what.

There is no evidence that women, as a voting block, are any more enlightened or motivated beyond stark partisanship than the rest of the country as a whole.

The sad fact is the Republicans have been voting against 90% of the electorates interests for over 40 years. And by golly they keep getting elected, don't they.

Tribalism and stupidity are very hard to defeat.


Posted by tkc]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:01:05 -0700 The Stranger
No, it was defeated 47-52. It received a majority and was defeated anyway. That's the whole problem right there and it's completely obscured by reversing the order of the vote and otherwise not mentioning it at all.
Posted by Cascadian]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:54:40 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Ziggity]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:52:16 -0700 The Stranger
Shit, I would like to see those lousy democrats do anything, even just once, to decrease the incidence of what I'll "disposable man syndrome."

Women always get what they want, though. No doubt about it. Society always caves to any and all bawling from women. Women are the limiting factor in reproduction; it was once a good strategy to keep women protected from the dangers of the big, wide world and also from the consequences of their own actions. But the first-world is a lot safer than life was nearly universally just one-hundred years ago. The problem is that we're all socialized with the same psychology that served us so well, and served women so well, since a time before when there was history.
Posted by Central Scrutinizer]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:37:42 -0700 The Stranger Dear Senator Kirk:

When the Senate considered the Paycheck Fairness Act, a piece of proposed legislation that would combat workplace gender discrimination, nearly your entire party voted against it, stalling its progress. Only you did not, choosing instead to abstain from voting.
You have, during your time in office, been one of the few members of the Republican Party (at the national level) who demonstrates more concern about the well-being of the country than about keeping political power. Instead of toeing the party line, you have a track record of listening to your constituents, thinking independently, and compromising when necessary to get things done.
Mr. Senator, this bill is supported by ~90% of Americans and 77% of Republicans. I am a Democrat, but I respect and applaud legislators of either party who have to courage to do the right thing even when their fellows are against it. I am writing, as a voter and a constituent, to thank you for not voting against the Paycheck Fairness Act, and to urge you to vote in its favor when it is reintroduced.
I am aware that Senate Republicans have introduced their own bill to separately address the issue. However, it lacks certain provisions making enforcement feasible, and a democracy in which the minority decides which bill passes and which doesn't is no democracy at all. I call on you to do the right thing, as you have done in the past regardless of political convenience, and cross the aisle to stand with Democratic and Independent Senators in support of the Paycheck Fairness Act. Thank you.

Sincerely,
[redacted]If we can get Kirk to cross the aisle, we might get a few more. But eight good men and women will be hard to find in that festering cesspool of obstructionism that is today's GOP.
Posted by venomlash]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:36:27 -0700 The Stranger Posted by DeaconBlues]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:34:02 -0700 The Stranger Posted by care bear]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:28:15 -0700 The Stranger