One injustice down ...

MANIFESTO

So many more to go.

The very first piece of legislation Barack Obama has signed is the so-called Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act. He's justly proud of it, and it's a microcosm of the havoc the Bushies perpetuated in the last eight years. It also shows where the Neanderthal Republican legislators stand on issues of fairness as not a single House Republican voted for the bill.

One former reader of this blog can complain all he wants about my inability to "get over" the Bushies' horrendous reign, but the legacy—in the form of the oligarchs remaining on the SCOTUS—remains. And in a 5-4 decision, the Republican-appointed justices decided in 2007 that Ms. Ledbetter hadn't been jobbed by Goodyear even though

over the course of her career, she lost more than $200,000 in salary, and even more in pension and Social Security benefits—losses she still feels today.

It's a great day for justice, but this is only one victory in what's going to be a long war.