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Our friends at People For the American Way send us this:

Senator Edward Kennedy and a bipartisan group of fourteen of his colleagues have introduced the Fair Pay Restoration Act to vastly reduce the damage done by the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire. The sharply divided, 5-4 ruling left many workers who face persistent pay discrimination based on sex, race, religion or nationality with no legal recourse.

“Congress has a rare opportunity to correct a terrible decision by the Supreme Court,” said Ralph G. Neas, President of People For the American Way. “The Roberts Court made it more difficult for Americans to recover wages unfairly denied them and much easier for employers to engage in pay discrimination with impunity. Congress must act now to undo the Court’s unjust assault on the individual rights of American workers and the laws passed by Congress to protect them.” . . .“We must do everything possible to prevent what happened to Lilly Ledbetter from happening again,” said Neas. “Congress has the authority and the obligation to ensure that justice is not denied to those Americans who face discrimination in the workplace.”

Hear, hear! Watch Lily Ledbetter discuss fair pay:

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    Surprise, Surprise, Surprise (none / 0) (#1)
    by squeaky on Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 04:50:45 PM EST
    Criminals on the court. And it is not over, brought to you by the party of hate.

    Can you folks play the whole video? (none / 0) (#4)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 05:01:15 PM EST
    I can't now.

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    Yes (none / 0) (#5)
    by squeaky on Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 05:05:39 PM EST
    No problem. I checked and it is the same lenght as it is on the youtube site.

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    Cool (none / 0) (#6)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 05:06:29 PM EST
    HATE is how they did it (none / 0) (#7)
    by Sumner on Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 05:28:10 PM EST
    ...brought to you by the party of hate.

    In mythos, Achilles' mother, Thetis, dipped him into the river, Styx, to give him INVULNERABILITY. (All except for his heel, by which she held him and where he remained vulnerable.)

    The river Styx is the chief of five rivers, flowing seven times over Hell and upon which Charon ferries the souls of the dead.

    Styx, by which the gods swore their most solemn and irrevocable oaths.

    The river Styx, terrible to the gods themselves.

    STYX (stiks), n. [L. < Gr., lit. HATE]

    Abhorred and dreadful Styx, the flood of Deadly Hate.

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    Quite The Stygian Morass We're In (none / 0) (#8)
    by squeaky on Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 05:52:08 PM EST
    Time to build some dams.

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    More like (none / 0) (#11)
    by jondee on Sat Jul 21, 2007 at 05:23:00 PM EST
    the party that's always sh*tting it's pants with fear: said fear being that reality and history, too busy being in flux, dosnt care one iota about Buckley's description of "conservatives standing athwart history shouting stop".

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    Looking at this from a purely political (none / 0) (#2)
    by andgarden on Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 04:50:48 PM EST
    perspective: a white woman from the deep south being beat up by mean Republicans. I'm sure there's got to be some mileage in that.

    Womans Place (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by squeaky on Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 04:56:32 PM EST
    Is in the home, supporting their wingnut husband while he turns the clock back to the middle ages.

    All I can think of is the picture of Roberts & Family looking like pasty cute wind up toys during the appointment hearings.

    Looked like, and sounded like an activist to me. What were they thinking?

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    Time to... (none / 0) (#10)
    by Alien Abductee on Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 06:03:18 PM EST
    Woman's place Is in the home, supporting their wingnut husband while he turns the clock back to the middle ages.

    break out the burquas, or maybe just wimples, to keep things nicely eurocentric.

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    Too bad (none / 0) (#9)
    by Wile ECoyote on Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 06:03:00 PM EST
    People for the somewhat American Way won't address Kelo.  A far more important ruling, imo.