It seems that the Left is all a-giggle that when Romney became MA Guv, he asked for “binders full of women” when he was in the process of fulfilling a campaign process to have a larger-then-normal-number of women in his Cabinet. Is NOW screaming at the Obama campaign for making sport of Mitt for putting women at the same level as men when considering qualified employees? Nope (like, you really thought that was going to happen??). Look at their post – they’re all in for the Progressive in the campaign (er, that would be Obama). In fact, this is what they said:
…When an audience member asked about equality in the workplace, President Obama rightly pointed to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act as one of his signature achievements;
…In fact, many of Romney’s budget policies are job killers for women…
All that LLFPA does (its main component) is do a reset of the statute of limitation and gives the aggrieved a longer time in which to file a claim – which may well be happening in Obama’s own employ! What Romney should have pointed out was this:
Female employees in the Obama White House make considerably less than their male colleagues, records show.
According to the 2011 annual report on White House staff, female employees earned a median annual salary of $60,000, which was about 18 percent less than the median salary for male employees ($71,000).
That article also had this line in it:
n a 2011 article titled “The White House Boys’ Club: President Obama Has a Woman Problem,” TIME magazine’s Amy Sullivan detailed the president’s fondness for male-dominated environments.
It also wasn’t much better when he was a Senator either:
Obama’s commitment to federally mandated pay equity stretches from the Rockies to Wall Street and beyond. And yet it seems to have eluded his Senate office. Compensation figures for his legislative staff reveal that Obama pays women just 83 cents for every dollar his men make.
So, who is the REAL chauvinist here? Who is the real liar about what he really does (versus what he tells “the masses”)? And two major, high level staffers, Anita Dunn and Christina Romer, have both publicly complained about the atmosphere of “a men club”; would they be willing to file LLFPA complaints for getting screwed financially by Obama?
Once again, we see the hypocrisy of Obama (and the Left, in general) of saying one thing but their actions say a 180.
