The Lilly Ledbetter Act passes the Senate easily, with all of the Republican senators who are women voting in favor of the bill. Obviously they don't share their colleagues' view of gender discrimination as a trivial matter that should be dealt with within a 180-day statute of limitations.
Between Obama's executive orders closing Guantanamo and prohibiting torture, the repeal of the global gag rule and the Senate's passage of the Fair Pay Act, it's been a pretty good first few days for liberals hasn't it? Maybe Obama's been reading Rick Perlstein. Now about that stimulus...
-- A. Serwer
