Owning up

After 8000 votes to repeal Obamacare (slight exaggeration for the sarcasm challenged), it was really rich to hear republicans whine today about Democrat's holding a "political vote" on the Paycheck Fairness Act.  Because our Senate is so dysfunctional (and to a degree, because Democrats lack a strong enough spine), the Paycheck Fairness Act failed today despite having 54 votes for to 43 against.  Remember, this is an Act that the American public supports overwhelmingly.

You'd be hard pressed to come up with any significant legislation the modern republican party has enacted which benefitted ordinary Americans.  The plain truth of the matter is that the Paycheck Fairness Act, and likewise, votes to raise the minimum wage, are core Democratic Party values, and that republicans lack the guts to tell the American people what they really feel--that they're fine with women making less than men for doing the same job, and that they don't care if people can work full-time hours and still make little enough to live below the poverty level, as long as their corporate backers keep sending the checks.

It's not about politics--it's about our core values versus their core values.  It's not our fault if the the majority of Americans think the republican party's core values suck.

Peace,
emaycee