Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) Opposes Equal Pay Laws Because Women Just Want To Be ‘Recognized’

[Purveyor]

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Sunday said that Washington should stay out of the business of ensuring equal pay because “what women want” is just to be “recognized.”

During a panel discussion on NBC about a recent Pew report that found women had become the primary source of income in 40 percent of U.S. households, Blackburn said that it was “up to companies to make sure there is a level playing field and that women are not shortchanged as they try to get on that latter to success.”

“How about pay equity laws to ensure that women are treated fairly in the workplace?” former White House senior adviser David Axelrod asked the Tennessee Republican.


“I think that more important than that is making certain that women are recognized by those companies,” Blackburn replied. “You know, I’ve always said that I didn’t want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job.”

“And making certain that companies are going to move forward in that vein — that is what women want,” she added. “They don’t want the decisions made in Washington.”

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[Mr. David]

1. Then Ms. Blackburn, resign from your position, give up all assets

and get your a$$ back in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant.

[hrmjustin]

2. Wow, just wow!

[elleng]

3. She specializes in The Stupid.

[kestrel91316]

4. Yeah, give us an engraved plaque instead of a raise and

we/ll be just fine.

What a disgrace to her gender. Hell, what a TRAITOR.

[sakabatou]

5. Marsha, you're a fucking hypocrite.

[Warpy]

6. Then we can cut her pay by 30%, right?

After all, that's all she's worth and she's "recognized" every day by her Representative title.

Fuck that, Marsha, I'd prefer the money and so do you.

Asshole.

[ZRT2209]

10. Ha!

[Arkansas Granny]

7. Um, does she enjoy they same pay rate as her male counterparts in they house,

or has she volunteered to work just for the recognition?

[freshwest]

8. +1

[VanillaRhapsody]

9. there is no depths of stupid and hypocritical that R's will not plunge for

[Tippy]

11. OMG I knew she was stupid...but I didn't think she was this bad

When will TN Women wake the hell up...

[spanone]

14. her district is gerrymandered to hell and back...she could be in office forever

[spanone]

13. she has about one gram more intelligence than louie gohmert....and that ain't shit.

[marmar]

20. Is that possible? I heard a Box of Rocks talking about how dumb Gohmert is.

[spanone]

21. you may have a valid point there.

[chowder66]

15. Recognition doesn't pay the bills you stupid….dipshit... politician.

Hell! why pay women at all if recognition is all "women want".

What a disastrous thing to say.

[booley]

16. why would businesses want a level playing field?

Blackburn said that it was "...up to companies to make sure there is a level playing field and that women are not shortchanged as they try to get on that latter to success.

But why would they (business) do that?

Oh some might. However, plenty won't since what incentive is there for them to do that?

I mean, if the whole point of you is to make money, why wouldn't you want workers you could pay less for doing the same job? Yes it unfair to the worker but that unfairness benefits your bottom line. (at least in the short term)
Yet when I bring this up to free market conservatives I get either stony silence or some off hand remark about the "free market"

Things like this makes me feel conservative economics is more religion then anything else.

[indepat]

17. My hope is for Rep. Masha Blackburn (R-TN) to be recognized in early Jan. 2015 as a lousy former

Congressperson.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

18. "More important than that is..." is a wonderful formulation; I shall remember it.

It completely avoids having to address the question, while making it sound like you support the cause.

[MrScorpio]

19. IF Congress voted to raise the salaries for only the male members and NOT the female members…

And instead of a raise, the female members would merely be "recognized" for their contribution.

I just wonder what HER vote would be.