I was hoping for a chance to cover this again:
WASHINGTON – Under a portrait of George Washington and a sign proclaiming "A New Direction," Democratic lawmakers boasted of their accomplishments their first five months running Congress.
Their press release covered two pages.
Yet most people might be excused for hardly noticing, except maybe those who are paid the minimum wage or who live in hurricane-ravaged areas.
Wait, here it comes!
Even the Democrats’ most clear-cut legislative victory – raising the minimum wage to $7.25 from the current $5.15 over three years – has questionable impact.
Only a small fraction of workers earns the minimum wage, and Democrats had to buy Republican support with $4.84 billion in new tax cuts for small businesses.
Might I point out that 140 Democrats in the House, and 10 in the Senate, including Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, and Barak Obama, as well as Obey, Ellison, Frank, Harman, Hastings, Jackson-Lee, "Cold Cash" Jefferson, and Woolsey. Some of the most prominent Democrats, "champions" of the poor and middle class, and all voted against their own "accomplishment."
Sure, it wouldn’t have gone through without some Dem support, but the GOP is the Party who made it happen.
If you want links to what the actual vote breakdown was, hit this post.
Nice try Pelosi & Meatballs – George Washington didn’t LIE, prayed and is the Father of our country! General George Wahington would have hung the Pelosi & Meatball cronys for treason!!