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

[kpete]

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.”

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

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More than a few kisses-
here you go Mitch:

Women represent nearly two-thirds of minimum wage workers. 22% percent of minimum wage workers are women of color.More than three-quarters of women earning the minimum wage are 20 or older, and do not have a spouse’s income to rely on.70% of restaurant servers (the largest group of tipped minimum wage worker) are women – and their poverty rate is nearly 3 times higher than the rate for the workforce as a whole.

Women represent 76% of the low-wage workforce, defined as the ten largest low-paying occupations. Women of color are 37% of the low-wage workforce.

4.8 million working mothers would get a raise if the minimum wage was increased. Increasing the minimum wage would boost annual earnings by $5,700 – enough to pull a family of three out of poverty

More, plus links:
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2014/04/equal-pay-day

[BeyondGeography]

1. Cuz Mitch is all about job creation, you see

[FSogol]

2. McConnell is a petulant child.

[The Blue Flower]

3. Same talking points out here in WA state

Kathy McMorris Rogers (I think that's her name) an R Congresswoman from WA state was quoted as slamming the "politicization of women" over the gender wage gap. She wants us to deal with policies that "really affect families." These people are such morons, and they think their constituents are as well.