A week after Harry Reid laid the smack down on House Republicans for scheduling their own pay increases ahead of poor folks, John Boehner has changed his mind, saying a vote is likely. Contact your Rep and demand their support.
Give poor people a raise.
According to the
Boston Globe John Boenher has buckled to pressure from Senate Democrats to do the decent thing on the minimum wage. Check this quote out:
Faced with elections that could cost them control of Congress, John A. Boehner, the House majority leader, acknowledged Thursday that Republican leaders are likely to reverse course and hold a vote on a proposed minimum wage increase. Though Boehner said it was a "cynical ploy" for Democrats to make it a campaign centerpiece, polls indicate that voters clearly favor an increase in the wage, and Boehner acknowledged that GOP leaders are "probably going to have to find some way to deal with it."
Nice. Yeah, we'll have to find some way, Lord, some way we don't know how, to deal with giving people their first raise in the minimum wage in nearly a decade.
Jerkoff.
And I'm sure it has nothing, nothing whatsoever, to do with the following. Pure coincidence, dude.
A flurry of moves by Democrats in recent weeks has vaulted the minimum wage to the top tier of issues in Washington and in House races across the country. In one maneuver, Senate Democrats this week threatened to block pay raises for all members of Congress until the minimum wage is increased, vowing that low-income workers should see more in their paychecks before their elected representatives do.
In the House, Democrats are trying to attach a minimum-wage increase to any bill they can to force the GOP's hand on an issue that splits their party. Representative Nancy Pelosi -- the minority leader and a California Democrat poised to become House speaker if her party wins this fall -- has pledged to boost the minimum wage on the first day of a Democratic-controlled Congress.
This is what happens what the Democrats actually act like an opposition party and grow some intestinal fortitude. It pays off, and you can embarass the Republicans with their own bullswill. See how this works?