Liberal Senators' Gender Pay Gaps

Liberals' gender pay gap ploy is flopping badly, even among some liberals. The Washington Post's Fact Checker awarded President Obama 2 Pinocchios for his '77-cent' gap claim, and Ruth Marcus post is headlined Democrats' Revolting Pay Demagoguery.

There's plenty from the right on it, but the best on the web is Jennifer Rubin's Right Turn post, in which she lists several embarrassing 'oops' cases where "the war on women is causing Democratic casualties," including this:

Next, the folks at the National Republican Senatorial Committee are blasting out an e-mail telling the press that it started looking at the pay rates in offices of incumbent red-state Democratic senators. You guessed it:

It turns out President Obama isn’t the only hypocritical Democrat, in fact Senate Democrats have their own problems when it comes to equal pay. We pulled the official payroll records of various offices and calculated the average pay for men and women in each office for the most recent 6 month period available. Since some employees only worked a portion of the six month period, we calculated how much each person was paid per day in order to give an accurate representation. Here’s what we found:

• Mark Udall pays women 85 cents for every dollar that a man makes.
• Mary Landrieu pays women 88 cents for every dollar that a man makes.
• Mark Begich pays women 82 cents for every dollar that a man makes.
• Mark Warner pays women 75 cents for every dollar that a man makes.
• Gary Peters pays women 67 cents for every dollar that a man makes.

That means on average, these five Democrats on the ballot in battleground states pay women in their office 79 cents for every dollar made by a male employee.

Yup, oops.