Oh this is excellent news Christy! Thanks.

Great news. Workers everywhere rejoice. Really great news.

Maybe men will be able to hold their head a little higher. So many years after equal funding in sports. Hope the Harry “Magic Underwear Reid” will support someything good for a change, Thank you for the good news Christy.

YaHoooooooooooooooo!

This is really important to me because in my last job, I found out I was probably getting paid $15-20K less than the guy I mentored and brought up to speed as a new employee…… He spilled the beans when asking the pay scale of a job I was being recruited by a headhunter……. innocently out popped…. “gee that seems way too low”…… AND I sniped back….. currently I’m not being paid the lowest on the scale….. boy was he shocked and profusely apologized……

it’s way too late for me to go after that as that company has been sold twice since I left …….

Please take some time to call your Senators and voice your support.

Ah come on Christy….. Jon Kyle and John McCain….. the two Jon/John’s from AZ who want women to live in like it’s 1950?

Thanks for the news Christy.

I DIGG it when I *hear* it first at FDL.

It is about damn time! Thank you, Christy.

you mean you DON’T want to earn less than the men???

hey stranger!

been there, done that….. own that T-shirt….

excellent. Mom was a Rosie for a while during WW2, and she wants this vote to pass now. Long after she did the job a man would have done. She had to wait until she was in her eighties for a lot of the “american dream” to catch up. She still wonders why so little has really been done.

hey back at ya!!

(((TB)))

How’s all with you?

Waiting on Blago presser.

Family stuff’s been completely insane for the last month, but otherwise good.

I wonder, too. ERA, ERA, ERA!

What has always gotten lost in the struggle for EQUAL pay for women is that women need a little higher pay than men to compensate for the additional expenses women incur for their personal security.

Why a society should tolerate a higher rate of personal violence towards females is beyond me. If we throw up our hands say we don’t know how to provide equal protection then the least we can do is compensate women financially for those restrictions on their freedom and the extra expenses they must incur.

good news sometimes causes delurking.

Blago on now. thx for heads up Teddy.

Please remind John McCain that you don’t just need more education to be paid equally for doing equal work when you call. *g*

Granny McConnell will filibuster the bill if it doesn’t include another $350B for his buddies on Wall St. With no restrictions. In cash. Hand delivered by Larry Summers.

Woot!

Thanks

Which is why calling Senators right now is important. If we can undercut the 60 votes needed for cloture before he even gets his huff on, we’ll be in much better shape.

Great news! What are the prospects in the Senate? And, assuming it passes would it go to President Obama? Or the chimp?

McCain’s statement about education was one of the most insulting comments he made during the campaign, as it belied his complete lack of understanding of the Ledbetter case: she had exactly the same kind of position, with exactly the same level of training, as her male counterparts. Telling her she needed more training was irrelevant to the case.

Dodged a bullet on that one, America did.

That comment really made me pissed….. just how much more education do I need…. Nursing degree and dual degrees in Software Engineering and Business….. gee maybe I need a trade certificate now….

Absolutely!

Me, too — I have a damned J.D. What other education does he think I ought to get after all these years of college and post-graduate continuing legal education hours?

It’s being time, I think, to g to Obama. For good reason…

Fantastic! Way to start the new era!

Is it too soon to have a link to the vote? I doubt that Lamar Smith voted yea, but who knows, maybe my call pushed him into the bright side…
Never mind, I’ll go look for myself.
Now, on to the Senate, and some more pressure for Kay Bailey — TexBetsy – hiya – have you called KBH yet? (no doubt you have, just askin’ – you’re far more consistent an activist than I am. I vow to do better in the new year.)

Snap!

Just one example, I think there are hundreds:

The opportunity for some needed overtime arises, but it means commuting at night or it means going to a nearly empty office building on a weekend. What does she do? Go ahead and be a little scared of footsteps in the hall? Try to round up a co-worker or someone else? Or give up the overtime.

Roll Call of the House on this vote is here.

Five Dems voted no: Boren (OK), Boyd (FL), Bright (AL), Childers (MS), and Griffith (AL).

All kidding aside, I think there will be a number of Rethugs who will sign on to this. I don’t know the number of R’s who are up for reelection in 2010 but I’ve a feeling they’re gonna be mindin’ their p’s and q’s for the next 2 years. At least some of them will. Lot of self-serving pols there. After all, getting re-elected is the most important thing they do.

How will Harry Reid screw this up? Any guesses?

Is someone whispering in the Blue Dog’s ears?

Quoting Tennyson after reciting his entire “fighting for the little guy and gal” resume.

Sheer, unadulterated ballsupitude. I sure wish he weren’t crooked; he sure has chutzpah.

If it were me, I’d absolutely target Snowe, Collins, Specter, and every other Republican in a blue to purple to only faintly red state. And call them — a LOT.

Either Corkhead or Shellface will put a hold on it and Harry The Spineless will allow it to stand.

it is reason enough to attack them mercilessly. The gop is going to lose any seat not nailed down because they will be blamed for the depression from now on. Make it stick!

I wonder if the lack of a Tweety opponent will make Spectre more likely to vote against this. Arlen will have a Club For Growth primary challenger, who’ll hang him out to dry for voting YES on this, right?

Thanks, Peterr. No surprise, my [non] rep Smith (TX) voted nay.

I hope Obama and Reid check this out – exactly 3 Repubs voted yea.
I think this demonstrates how bright are the prospects for bi-partisanship in the 111th Congress.
Sigh.

And noting the 5 nay-voting Dems – honestly, I’m begining to think Lincoln was wrong not to just the South secede. (Of course, WVa would still have seceded from Va, so that would be all right.)
Okay, done ranting – got to celebrate! (heading to kitchen for last stashed-away Mounds bar…)

I know where I’d like to stick it.

Do women voters outnumber men in PA? They do in FL. If Arlen votes Yay, his Clubfoot challenger may get one broken off in his/her ass.

Will someone please explain to me why it is that Rethugs hate working women?

It’s the patriarchal, authoritarian control issue. A woman’s place is in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant.

Easy. They hate all working people, but especially women.

There’s that too. *g*

Or, is it THIS?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..8;index=11

‘Whatever it is…I’m against it!”

They hate women even if they don’t work. Basically, they are a bunch
of fraidy cats. Scary to death of mommie.

I have a relative who refused to take a job that would have paid her more than her husband. It would have “undermined the authority” of her husband or something. I pointed out the verse in the bible about hiding your light under a bushel, and she wasn’t very happy with me after that.

Women who work don’t know their place and prolly like sex.
Women who don’t work are scum and prolly like sex.
Scary for rethugs.

A life long guilt of the oedipal thoughts they had as a raging hormonal teen.

You just made me snort tea through my nose on that one. ha.

Back to the quarry. Friday. Payday and late lunch day.

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Hugs.

LOL!

But seriously, all of the above explanations are true, IMHO, but also, it’s part of the reflexive pro-employer/business – anti-employee/worker bias: anything that might require paying any employee more for any reason is “too expensive,” “bad for business,” “socialist,” etc., etc.
It’s in their DNA – to think up reasons to pay less to as many people as possible.

And, I’m not sure why, but that ancient belief that women “don’t need to earn as much as men because men are supporting a family and women aren’t”, despite the riduculous obviousness of its untruth, still hangs on in some folks. I have actually heard some recent stories of women asking for a raise or for more starting pay being told that old canard as the reason for denial of their request. My jaw dropped the first time, less the second. Of course, I am here in Texas, a wierd mixture of modern and traditional attitudes that manifest themselves in sometimes astonishing ways.

new post upstairs—>

McCain lives off his wife.

Irony. Not just for regular folks, is it?

Boyd, Bright, Childers and Griffith don’t surprise. Boren does, at least if he’s the child of Senator David Boren, now President of the University of Oklahoma. If he is, he didn’t listen carefully enough to his Dad when he was growing up.

Another participation opportunity is coming from Obama and the DNC, they invite questions to Kaine and note he’ll be responding soon in a video.

I asked:

Living–and voting!–in a small red state that struggled for a thriving Democratic presence before Howard Dean’s 50-State Strategy, I’m concerned to know your plans to sustain that strong policy. Can we count on you and the National Democratic Party to continue to support Democratic grass roots in all 50 states.

There should be some synergy between both contacting our Congresspeople and the National Democratic party, methinks.

Totally embarrased to share a county with Boyd as a representative. Suggestions from FDL’ers about how to find, support and elect a true DEMOCRAT???