Of planet-eating proportions.
His excuse... "It will lead to more lawsuits." Now, I am a lawyer, but I fail to see how lawsuits are inherently bad. Particularly when brought against sexist jagoffs.
This "anti-lawsuit" crapola -- the sprawling, be-tentacled bastard stepchild of the pharmaceutical industry -- this idea that somehow, pursuing justice is bad, like only whiny babies want to you know, use the courts to vindicate rights and punish the bad, is, to me, about the same as saying, "You know all those great Englishy freedoms and stuff? Yeah, well I want to burn the Magna Carta. I want to be medieval France."
Not a real democratic contention. Sort of thing only someone who regards himself as king can get behind. "Oh me, I can just use my vast wealth and privilege to get what I need. I don't need no stinking equality before the law." Of course, we all know how well things turned out for the kings of France...
More on the Ledbetter bill available here. And I know that everyone is currently suffering campaign fatigue. I personally am not on or off any bandwagon for any particular Democratic contender. At the end of the day, I don't care whether the president is Clinton, Obama, or a scarecrow made out of old White House post-it-notes and banjo wire. Just as long as it isn't McCain.
Eyes on the prize, people!
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