Dollars for Diversity

As I mentioned earlier, your taxpayer dollars are being used to create a GOP themed calender championing their civil rights successes. I wonder which day they will celebrate this one:

House Republican leaders want to exempt members of Congress from laws against discrimination that apply to private employers, despite the Republicans' Contract With America pledge that "all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress" and a decade-old law that placed Congress under antidiscrimination statutes.

Last week, in response to a discrimination lawsuit filed against a Democratic House member, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, majority leader Tom DeLay, and majority whip Roy Blunt submitted a "friend of the court" brief on behalf of the House, saying members of Congress should be shielded from discrimination suits

Nice to see the usual suspects getting involved, too.