Posted on 08/24/2005 5:20:04 AM PDT by OESY
When Anthony Kennedy was nominated for the... Supreme Court in 1987, the president of [NOW] called him "sexist" for ruling against a comparable worth pay system for Washington state when he served on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. This time around, Senator Olympia Snowe is doing the honors for John Roberts.
Comp worth... was a feminist rallying cry taken up by Walter Mondale in his 1984 run for President. The idea was to guarantee that women who worked in jobs dominated by women (say, nurses or secretaries) would earn as much as men who worked in "comparable" jobs dominated by men (say, plumbers or truck drivers). It's not to be confused with equal pay for equal work, whereby men and women in similar jobs get paid the same salaries....
The Maine Republican hasn't gone so far as to use the 's' word, but she's made known her displeasure at Judge Roberts's remarks in a 1984 memo on the subject. "I honestly find it troubling that three Republican representatives are so quick to embrace such a radical redistributive concept," he wrote. "Their slogan may as well be, 'From each according to his ability, to each according to her gender.'" Good line, that. But guess who one of the Republican representatives was?...
Our own hope is that Ms. Snowe had used the last 21 years to learn more economics. But since she claims to be such a fan of comp worth, we called her office to find out where she stands on two comp-worth bills pending in the Senate. Senator Hillary Clinton proposes authorizing the Labor Department to set voluntary wage guidelines for various occupations. Senator Tom Harkin wants to leave the job to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and make compliance mandatory for every business with 25 or more employees....
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Not all snakes appear on the trail before you, grasshopper.
Beware the snake in the tall grass.
Bwaaahaha!! Snowe better get her PR staff in gear. I read an article last weekend (UK paper) where she was called a Democrat Senator. Not that she isn't, she just calls herself a Republican, but if journalists don't know... that isn't too good.
To me it would be like the NY Slimes calling Tony Blair a Tory.
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