Mitch McConnell Compares ‘Obsession’ With Closing Gender Pay Gap To Blowing ‘A Few Kisses’

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Mitch McConnell Compares ‘Obsession’ With Closing Gender Pay Gap To Blowing ‘A Few Kisses’

By Rebecca Leber

On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) honored Equal Pay Day — a day that symbolizes the amount of time it takes women to earn what men make in a year — by accusing Democrats and President Obama of a “never-ending political road show” that merely blows “a few kisses” to their voter base.

“Instead of focusing on jobs, he launched into another confusing attack on the left’s latest bizarre obsession,” McConnell said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “Just think about that. The percentage of Americans in the workforce is at an almost four-decade low, and Democrats chose to ignore serious job-creation ideas so they could blow a few kisses to their powerful pals on the left.”

McConnell argued the fact that women still earn 77 percent of what men make should take a backseat to more serious Republican priorities. These priorities typically include building Keystone XL pipeline and repealing Obamacare (which Republicans have attempted more than 50 times).

Leading up to Democrats’ latest push for equal pay, Republicans have claimed that the gender wage gap is a “myth” and that it is “condescending” to discuss. But the reality is that women still earn less even when they achieve the same education and job level, with gender discrimination accounting for as much as much as 40 percent of their pay gap.

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http://thinkprogress.org/home/2014/04/08/3424354/mcconnell-equal-pay-blowing-kisses/

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[BeyondGeography]

1. Then you have Neal Boortz asking why women are "so easily fooled and manipulated"

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/neal-boortz-war-on-women-manipulated-fooled

Maybe the new GOP coordinated outreach to women voters is, "make them feel stupid."

[LisaLynne]

3. Well, you do have to be stupid to vote Repug, so ...

somehow I think that strategy makes sense to them!

[elaristotle]

2. Looks like a good argument for a woman President

I think Hillary has found one of her campaign planks. Thanks you foolish Republicans.

[sheshe2]

4. Interesting choice of words Mitch chose.

"McConnell argued the fact that women still earn 77 percent of what men make should take a backseat to more serious Republican priorities."

Hmmmm, okay got it.

[Warpy]

6. They will never admit that women are a slight majority

and they've never gotten used to the fact that we vote.

You'd think something that affects the majority, however slight, would be on their to do list.

But it never is. It rarely is for the Democrats, although they've done much better.

The only reason it's 77% now is because men's wages have fallen so steeply.

[3catwoman3]

5. Yertle can...

...blow it out his @$$.

How's that outreach to wimminfolk goin' fer ya, eejit?

[rocktivity]

7. But but but women are FOR Mitch!

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