McCain ‘Truth Squad’ Surrogate: McCain Supports Equal Pay For Women In ‘Concept’ Only
McCain ‘Truth Squad’ Surrogate: McCain Supports Equal Pay For Women In ‘Concept’ Only
Former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Margaret Farrow, a member of Sen. John McCain’s recently formed Palin Truth Squad, appeared on WISN-TV’s Up Front with Mike Gousha this past Sunday. Farrow claimed that despite McCain’s opposition to legislation that would address equal pay for women, the senator “supports the concept.” “But he’s voted against it and not been there for that,” interjected current Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton.
Farrow tried to defend McCain, saying that he opposed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act because it “would have said we are taking away the statute of limitations.” Lawton reminded Farrow that McCain had “voted against equal pay for equal work as well”:
LAWTON: But Margaret, he’s voted against equal pay for equal work before that as well.
FARROW: But he is clearly supporting the concept, but he doesn’t want to tie the hands in ways that are more mandates on businesses in ways that won’t create jobs.
Lawton replied by noting that McCain had defended his opposition earlier this year by saying that “women need more ‘education and training.’” Watch it:
In April, McCain skipped the vote on the Ledbetter Act, but he told reporters that he opposed it because it “opens us up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems.” The legislation sought to counteract “a Supreme Court decision limiting how long workers can wait before suing for pay discrimination.
McCain has claimed that he is “committed to making sure that there’s equal pay for equal work,” but he has yet to support anything “that would achieve that goal.” Additionally, as Lawton notes, McCain has voted against equal pay for equal work before:
– In 2000, McCain opposed an amendment that aimed to “provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex.”
– In 1985, McCain voted against a study to investigate pay differences among federal employees, and determine whether they were the result of discrimination. [1985 CQ Almanac; HR 3008, vote # 318, 10/9/85]
In May, McCain claimed that strengthening women’s abilities to redress past discrimination doesn’t do “anything to help the rights of women.” But, as Matt Yglesias notes, “If your opposition to pay discrimination doesn’t extend to favoring measures to halt pay discrimination, then what’s it worth?”
Transcript:
LAWTON: Hillary Clinton supporters were excited about a woman who would bring great substance and dignity to a world stage but who would also be there for them to make sure that finally women would have an equal pay for equal work, which John McCain has voted against every opportunity he has.FARROW: But he supports the concept.
LAWTON: And, well, but he’s voted against it and not been there for that. And these are women who want the right to privacy in their medical decisions and want to be respected as full citizens in this nation, so they won’t be switching for that.
FARROW: I guess I just, I want to clarify because these are good talking points, you know, voted with the president 90% of the time, that’s John McCain. And then we have this about equal pay for equal work. John McCain voted against the Ledbetter bill, that would have said we are taking away the statute of limitations, so that you can’t, you have to file…
LAWTON: But Margaret, he’s voted against equal pay for equal work before that as well.
FARROW: But he is clearly supporting the concept, but he doesn’t want to tie the hands in ways that are more mandates on businesses in ways that won’t create jobs.
LAWTON: Actually, his answer to a 14-year old girl who asked him in a townhall meeting about why he doesn’t support equal pay for women, was, “I think women need more education and training.” It was a clear expression that he doesn’t think women are ready for prime time, although he would use one in his…
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I bet he supports drill drill drilling [wink wink]
September 10th, 2008 at 5:45 pmConcept, eh?
So, what’s that supposed to mean to me when I put my paycheck in the bank?
September 10th, 2008 at 5:46 pmTalk is cheap, John McCain. Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally cheap.
September 10th, 2008 at 5:47 pm“But he is clearly supporting the concept”…
He won’t vote for it, but in theory it might work.
” Elect me president then I’ll tell you if I think the concept might be practical if it doesn’t bother my business buddies club too awfully much…”
September 10th, 2008 at 5:48 pmSo McIIIrd is already auditioning candidates for his
‘Ministry of Truth’??
A little premature, like your ejac… never mind…
September 10th, 2008 at 5:50 pmsatirev, I keep expecting to see McIIIrd come out on stage in a clown suit, replete with Yuk-Ah-Yuks, and a squirting lapel flower..Geez…
September 10th, 2008 at 5:53 pmBy their works shall ye know them, and what they “support in concept” be damned.
Just one question for Gov. Palin: Should she become Veep will she work for 70% of the wage of the current Veep, and should something happen to a Pres McCain, would she take on the office of Pres for 70% of the wage of the current holder of that office?
September 10th, 2008 at 5:53 pmAww, now, Sat don’t be dissin’ McBush! He gave us Princess Sarah! She’s a woman, just like you and me – we all have v*ginas! Let’s vote for SARAH!!
She’s a beauty queen AND a mom!!
YAY!
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September 10th, 2008 at 5:55 pmPerhaps by concept he means Cindy.
September 10th, 2008 at 5:55 pmDoes this mean Sarah Palin would make less than Dick Cheney?
September 10th, 2008 at 5:56 pmHow about if all the people who support him “in concept” actually vote against him on election day!
September 10th, 2008 at 5:58 pmThomas Jefferson supported emancipation “in concept.”
He didn’t free his slaves.
Records talk Johnny. Yours stinks on this issue.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:01 pmWhat the hell does that even mean in concept only?
September 10th, 2008 at 6:06 pmMcPOW is starting to sound “nuanced”. That should scare the base a bit. They hate NUANCE.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:09 pmThey had to form a ’squad’ to fight the truth? Are they being overwhelmed with the truth?
Will she accept 70% of the pay male VPs get? Sounds like a great question. It also sounds like McCain would support that since he said women need more education and training. Although, I’ve been totally against on-the-job training since bush started doing it 8 yrs ago.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:10 pmOf course he supports the constitution… “in concept.”
September 10th, 2008 at 6:10 pmCount Istvan Says:
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What the hell does that even mean in concept only?
It means he’s lying again.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pmMcCain has demonstrated his double standards for all his adult life. His Daddy was an Admiral so it was OK for him to fu(k around with a multimillion dollar aircraft, almost sink an aircraft carrier, and kill hundreds of our own troops. It is OK for him to sing his ass off in Hanoi so he isn’t subjected to “commoner” treatment. It is OK for him to say he is for something and shoot it down the next. It is OK for him to select someone for his VP that would totally destroy this Cuntry when McAss kicks the bucket just so he can cop a feel or two. The fool is not a man he is a worthless piece of selfish shit.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pm“Palin Truth Squad”? They can’t be effing serious?
September 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pmI think Bob said it earlier, the “Palin Truth Squad” is a swat team to search out and obfuscate the truth about our sweet little rabid wolverine Sarah.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:15 pmMcCain supporting the “concept” of equal pay for women while opposing any course of redress when pay discrimination is discovered (with lame excuses, I might add) would be as if George Wallace supported the “concept” of racial integration while standing in the schoolhouse doorway to block it.
It won’t sell, no matter how it’s spun. And how any woman can support McCain is beyond me.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:16 pmLet me get this straight.
Ms. Palin lied for 40 minutes in her first national speech. She offered her children on the alter of the media. She hired legal council for alleged misdeeds as Gov. She has been concealed from the media. And the campaign has assigned her a “truth squad”.
And we are, somehow, supposed to believe she’s a victim?
September 10th, 2008 at 6:18 pmScaryBrownHusseinChick (ThinkOutsideTheBush) Says
September 10th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
How about if all the people who support him “in concept” actually vote against him on election day!
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oooo — now THERE’S a concept!
September 10th, 2008 at 6:20 pmCount Istvan Says:
What the hell does that even mean in concept only?
That means he’s FOR it – before he votes AGAINST it.
Silly wabbit.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:21 pm37 – AWESOME!! :oD
September 10th, 2008 at 6:24 pmMcBellimoose’s vague support of “a concept” but opposing real-world bills and laws is similar to Bush’s notion of getting out of Iraq on some distant over-the-horizon timeline (which you never quite get to, like the end of the rainbow…). The She-tyrant of the Tundra, McBellimoose, Bush and Cheney are all cut from the same whole cloth: a fascistic polyester weave.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:27 pmFunny stuff satirev. But, it should be the “Untruth Squad”. And, if you can find a use foe “Psycho Psarah” you’re welcome to it.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:37 pmA poem:
Psycho Sarah sold a jet
September 10th, 2008 at 6:40 pmAnd didn’t make a profit
As soon as she came on the scene
We wish she’d just get off it
A member of Sen. John McCain’s recently formed Palin Truth Squad
To compete with the “Mod Squad” ???
September 10th, 2008 at 6:43 pmsatirev Says: “…when it comes to putting my money where my mouth is…”
According to McWarmpebbles it is called “putting my mouth where my money went.”
September 10th, 2008 at 6:44 pmClearly, for Bombin’ Johnny McCumstain, the worst thing that can happen is that a corporation (”we”) might be sued for tortous behavior, not that they committed the behavior in the first place.
Jeesus PHUQUE!
September 10th, 2008 at 6:46 pmOh I’m sure he supports the concept of equal pay for equal work. I mean, he’s not going to penalize companies who do pay women the same as men for the same jobs! But he sure as hell isn’t going to do anything to promote equal pay for equal work. Using the power of the government to ensure basic fairness is just wrong!
September 10th, 2008 at 6:47 pmsatirev suggests: sarah palin: just another bush!
September 10th, 2008 at 6:25 pm.
which one could easily illustrate with a nude, brunette crotch-shot, just the cooter–as in bare-a-cooter?
September 10th, 2008 at 6:50 pmsatirev observes: On another site today, they published all of the ways in which John McCain degraded women with his voting record. It’s not just once; it’s every time a woman’s issue is raised. He’s voted against women all of his life.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
I’d guess he hates women. he’s a little guy, only 5′7″, probably had a napoleonic conquest syndrom…women woulda made fun of him…his treatment of his wives suggests the same thing. He in effect offered the trollop to the bikers in sturgess…lil prickish sob reeks of mysogyny..,.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:55 pmsatirev sez: “They only sully themselves and when I see Sarah (and I definitely try not to because it sickens me that women have been reduced to this misrepresentation) she’s beginning to look charred on the inside. I have a feeling there’s some serious psycho-pathology hiding and buried deep down inside of this woman.”
September 10th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Which, while probably true, does not affect the fact that they’ve used those strategies to take five of the last 7–and 7 of the last 10–national psuedo-elections held in the US. These folks are all Lombardis at heart: “Winning is the ONLY thing…”
September 10th, 2008 at 6:59 pmSatirev. The first time I saw her I thought, “Michele Bachmann clone”. And there ain’t nuthin’ pretty about that!
September 10th, 2008 at 7:02 pmLawton was mostly upset about the lipstick on a pig flap. After all, Sarah Palin owns the word lipstick now cuz of her joke about hockey moms and pitbulls so anybody else using it better not use it in a way that offends her.
September 10th, 2008 at 7:13 pmCorrection:
September 10th, 2008 at 7:16 pmFarrow, not Lawton
So what you’re saying, Senator, is that you’d rather have more gender-discriminated jobs and workplaces than equal pay for equal work just so that you can have the talking point for creating jobs?
You are a sick man.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:46 pmThe left cares about women as long as they are suing someone, or killing their unborn children.
http://palinsexismwatch.blogspot.com/
Keep it up, TP will be on this list soon, and that’s not a very progressive list, lol…but it won’t be the knuckledraggers on the boards, it will be staff, you can feel it coming. The farther the “one” falls, the worse the left gets.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:54 pmAgain excellent satire. You are learning grasshopper
September 10th, 2008 at 10:56 pmCopano_Texian Says:
Well really who cares except as an object of pity for his pathetic level of ignorance and as an object lesson about just how incredibly stupid a wingnut can get he is nothing more than a waste of precious oxygen
September 10th, 2008 at 11:36 pm“… and here’s your ‘conceptual’ pay differential. Don’t spend it all in one place.”
Cheers,
September 11th, 2008 at 12:15 amIt’s like the cap and trade McCain favors… strictly voluntary!
September 11th, 2008 at 12:16 am