You may know that the Supreme Court recently ruled that a Goodyear employee, Lily Ledbetter, couldn’t sue her employer for paying her less than men doing the same work, because she didn’t find out until after 20 years with the company (apparently Goodyear, like a lot of corporations, doesn’t encourage people to discuss salaries). The court’s ruling was that based on current law, she had six months after the disparate pay started to file a suit, regardless of when she learned about it.

Congress is now looking at a bill to change the law. Sen. McCain, who skipped a vote on it, said that of course he supports equal pay but “this kind of legislation, as is typical of what’s being proposed by my friends on the other side of the aisle, opens us up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems.”

Some support. Apparently someone such as Ledbetter suing because she’s been discriminated against is worse than the actual discrimination in McCain’s view. How does he think these cases should be handled then? Have Ledbetter stare at her boss with sad puppydog eyes?

If McCain is the kind of elitist who thinks it should be legal to discriminate based on gender, fine, but spare me the crap about how he really, really supports equal rights.

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