10 Lunacies From the Right-Wing Fringe This Week: Women Want Malls, Not Equal Pay Edition

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http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/10-lunacies-right-wing-fringe-week-women-want-malls-not-equal-pay-edition



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1. Minnesota Rep. Andrea Kieffer: Equal pay equals women whining.

The word "equality" is a lightning rod for Republicans. They don’t like it. They don’t believe in it. People are not equal, and equal pay for equal work just does not compute. The party has thrived on inequality of all kinds and it is bound and determined to keep it that way. And anyone who objects is just a lily-livered sob sister.

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2. Cari Christman of Red State Women: Women are too busy to need equal pay laws.

Turns out there is such a thing as being an idiot and an asshole simultaneously. The leader of a recently launched political-action committee aimed at female voters in Texas made the nonsense argument during an interview this week that women don’t want equal pay laws because they are “extremely busy.”

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3. Beth Cubriel, executive director of Texas Republican Party: Women will get better pay when they learn to negotiate like men.

Casting about for yet another lame excuse for not supporting equal pay laws, another Texas Republican good ole gal offered up this: "Men are better negotiators. I would encourage women, instead of pursuing the courts for action, to become better negotiators."

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4. Ralph Reed: Making divorce harder is a better solution to hunger than food stamps.

Faith and Freedom Coalition founder Ralph Reed does not like divorce. He has gone as far as to compare it to other scourges like, “drug use, human trafficking and legalized gambling.” On “Morning Joe” this week, he explained why he feels this way to Mike Brzezinski.

“I personally think the no-fault divorce revolution in the '60s and '70s has not been good for society,” he said. “Certainly, I recognize that couples are not going to be able to stay together. That’s been true throughout society, but do we really want to make it easier for a man to discard the wife of his youth than it is for him to fire his secretary, for him to basically go in and say goodbye when 40 percent of all child support is never paid?”

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1. I just read the whole article. loved it.

particularly the bit about why god hasn't struck down bill maher.

wingnuts are, well, nuts. insane. crazy motherfuckers infected with hate and stupidity.

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2. Stuck in their own bubble, yet they do show up at the polls, unfortunate for the most of us!

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4. Do they show up or...

are their votes counted more accurately than those votes from the left?

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3. You find great stuff. Thanks for posting this.