The Rat is terribly amused that a growing number of Republicans are so quick to express dismay at the initiatives Shrubbery chose to highlight in the first 45 days of Shrubbery Term 2: Revenge of Shrubbery.
Shrubbery promised to push an anti-Gay Marriage Amendment.
No vote on such an amendment is likely this year.
Shrubbery has all but promised to continue undermining Roe vs. Wade...but still won't appear with anti-abortion foes during their annual march.
Best of all, here's what he is going after:
Social Security, which, as I understand it, is pretty popular with many of the same "family values" voters that got him elected.
His party is also happily working to abolish the 40 hour work week, overtime pay, minimum wages for employees (think waiters, waitresses, bartenders, valets) who make the bulk of their income off tips, and prevent states from passing their own more liberal minimum wage laws.
And when poor or middle class Republicans who got screwed out of wages and retirement money want to get out from under the crushing debt caused by Shrubbery's Economic Recovery*, well, it looks like they're screwed there too.
This is hardly the Preznit they elected. And the Rat will only offer them scant comfort. In fact, the Rat turns to the words of the immortal poet John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) on a fateful summer night in 1978 in the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco:
"Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Cheated?"
Economic Recovery may not apply in all states.
WussGawd aka The Rat
Crossposted at Desert Rat Democrat