House Democrats Praise Obama's Minimum Wage Increase
Says uncooperative Republicans have left Obama with few options other than acting unilaterally
House Democratic leaders say uncooperative GOP leaders have left President Obama with little choice but to act unilaterally.
They are cheering Obama's move Tuesday to hike the minimum wage for federal contractors without congressional approval and also back his promises to take more executive actions.
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Hell yes! Votes at bargain rates!
$5,000 an hour min wage for guv-mint parasites? Hell, yeah, if it gets my party some VOTES!!! What else matters?!?!
Political game plan: buy votes with someone else's money so you can look like you care.
My aunt's sister's cousin's baby mama made $500 an hour working for the guvmint and you can too!
Just go to printdatmoney.gov for more information!
This is not news.
The Congressional Democratic Caucus would praise the smell of Obama's farts if asked to do do.
The morons in the legislative branch are backing his move to seize all power to rule by executive fiat? What country did I wake up in this morning?
"Members of the president's political party support his ideological agenda!"
My faith in the American government is..... still not restored.