"Because when Democrats regain power, choice, the environment, worker's rights -- the whole gamut -- will be protected"

Roberts:

As a Reagan White House attorney in 1984, John G. Roberts criticized three Republican congresswomen for supporting the "radical" idea of "comparable worth" to create pay equality between men and women.

Among the women was Olympia Snowe, now a senator from Maine, and key moderate member of the Senate, who will be voting on Roberts' nomination to the Supreme Court.

"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.' "

Via Jeanne, who also points out that the Dems will not fight the Roberts' nomination.

But all is not lost, my dear Y-chromosome-less harpies! "W" still stands for "women" ...if your last name is "Walton".

Comments

[Hubris]

I should state this carefully.

-I believe that there are still significant problems with respect to gender discrimination, with respect to hiring, advancement, and compensation. The government has an important and continuing role in remedying these problems.
-That being said, isn't the "comparable worth" theory rather controversial? If I understand correctly, it's the idea that occupations that traditionally employ women should yield compensation similar to different yet "comparable" occupations that traditionally employ men and pay a higher wage. I never really understood how this would be implemented or enforced, e.g. who would decide which occupations were "comparable." Was it only to be for government workers or was it meant as regulation for the labor market in general? My knee-jerk thought is that it would be better/easier to remove remaining barriers to women obtaining jobs in the higher-paying occupations.

At the least, it seems that the headline "Nominee Roberts, in '84, called equal pay for women 'radical'" is extremely misleading.

[Roxanne]

Hubris:

I agree with nearly everything you've written. The post is in reference to insider blogosphere stuff having to do with Kos, who --as one of his commenters recently put it-- has NO credibility when it comes to "women's" issues. Kos believes that if we elect Dems, all of the gender inequalities, etc. will simply disappear ... you know, the way the did under Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. And when Dems controlled the Congress.

And, yeah. The Newsday headline is misleading.

[JDC]

I heart transcripts.

No, Moulitsas isn’t the Gatekeeper, the Key Master, or the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. Nor is he Chi Chi’s favorite Ghostbuster. He’s the Little Dutch Boy trying to keep the dike from busting.

From Brian Lamb’s Q&A interview with Moulitsas, which aired April 10, 2005, on C-SPAN:
LAMB: What happens to Daily Kos when you start making more and more money, and you can buy nicer things and live in fancier houses and drive bigger cars and become a part of the establishment? Then what happens to you?
MOULITSAS: Oh, boy. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen. Let’s hope the part about making lots of money and a house – buying a house. This is a rental, and it’d be nice to own a house someday.
But it’s – you know, this is something I actually grapple with quite a bit. And there’s no doubt that I straddle the line between establishment and non-establishment. And the fact that I have a direct line to a lot of campaigns and a lot of the party structure is something that most people do not have. And it kind of sort of makes me a little bit establishment type.
But I’m also not afraid to take on the party and criticize the party and criticize our officials. And I do so with, a lot of times with a lot of gusto.

[Rita J. King]

I am an award-winning journalist and I recently called for essays from coast to coast for my Ruminations on America project...(www.ruminationsonamerica.blogspot.com). So far, many participants have sent in essays on core American values and the current state of the union, and I'd like to invite you to participate also. You might be interested in an article wrote that's posted on the site today about the evolution of global education. Other topics frequently explored on the site are human rights, environmental issues, the war, and other important topics that affect all Americans.

[tas]

I think what galls me the most about Markos, after a few re-readings of this quote, is his snake oil salesman attitude. All we have to do is support "netroots" and give money to Democrats, vote for Democrats, and then suddenly everything will be OK? Suddenly the Democrats will fight for us? If, and only if, they are in power? The same party that voted for the war in Iraq, the PATRIOT Act, the bankruptcy bill, many of Bush's judicial appointments, his tax cuts, etc... These assholes are going to fight to protect "the whole gamut" just as long as we give money to them? Why haven't they been fighting for us as a minority party? How are we supposed to trust the Democrats when they say one thing and do another? We're supposed to think that money just solves everything in politics?

If this is the fabled "netroots" revolution then count me out, because it sounds just like another money making scam to me.

[toothelss in Kansas]

Fuck Roberts, Fuck Scalia, and Fuck Thomas; calling them fascists is too kind