{"id":11302,"date":"2012-06-12T09:13:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T14:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=11302"},"modified":"2012-06-12T09:15:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T14:15:49","slug":"brilliant-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/06\/12\/brilliant-diversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Massachusetts Liberal<\/em> blog has the post Brilliant diversion<\/strong><\/a> which makes the point:<\/p>\n

And while Brown is anything but consistent between rhetoric and action, his campaign has shown it consistently thinks one or two moves ahead on the tactical chess board. Which brings us to the pay equality vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Though Elizabeth Warren’s latest ad<\/strong><\/a> is very good, I wonder shy she doesn’t make the more explicit points some place else that I made in my previous blog post, Senator Brown casts vote against wage bill<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The law\u00a0 \u201crequiring employers to provide a reason for pay gaps when asked\u201d doesn\u2019t seem to be that onerous.\u00a0 If any of the supposed legitimate reasons mentioned by Republicans for a pay gap were the real reason, then all the employer would have to do is to say so.\u00a0 However, don\u2019t you have to wonder why the Republicans think that there might be systematic differences in pay \u201cbased on performance\u201d?\u00a0 Do they really think men do the job so much better than women that they merit a 30% wage differential?
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\nScott Brown claims to be working for all of Massachusetts, but he always finds a reason why a particular law to help the middle-class would be bad, and he never finds a reason why a particular law to help the wealthy would be bad. Is this sort of like Faux Noise\u2019s \u201cfair and balanced\u201d?<\/p>\n

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The Massachusetts Liberal blog has the post Brilliant diversion which makes the point: And while Brown is anything but consistent between rhetoric and action, his campaign has shown it consistently thinks one or two moves ahead on the tactical chess board. Which brings us to the pay equality vote. Though Elizabeth Warren’s latest ad is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11302"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11307,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302\/revisions\/11307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}