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No sooner than I posted the previous comment, I read this:

For too long, leaders in control of Congress neglected the needs of working Americans. But our new Congress listened to what working Americans said last November. It heard their call for change and acted on its principles, giving a raise to the people who need it most.

Apparently John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, is so convinced Nancy and Harry can’t defend themselves, he has to do it for them. He’s probably right. However, this is pretty sad to me. This is the only accomplishment anyone can list for this Congress. And, I’m not sure who was calling for a minimum wage increase in the first place. The most common logic for raising the minimum wage was not by those living on the existing minimum wage, it was by people who were living on a lot more. Their argument was that we needed one because we hadn’t needed one for nine years. Now, the prevailing argument against it was that it would have no real impact. That those few people living below the proposed minimum wage level were so few and mostly part-time that it would have no relevance to the population at large. So, who was right? Well, let’s look at it this way. When it passed, Congress was more popular than Bush. Now, it’s the worst, Congress, ever. People either have very short memories, or, much more likely, no one benefited from the minimum wage increase John Sweeney seems to think was the root of the Nancy and Harry revolution of last November. Given that I seriously doubt John Sweeney represents one single person affected by that minimum wage increase, gotta wonder why he feels compelled to go to bat the day this Zogby poll is released? My guess, he read my previous post and feels the same way I do. Twelve more months of this kind of numbers and their party of choice’s chances of taking the White House are destroyed once again. Rather than offering up public displays of loyalty, Sweeney needs to be taking Nancy and Harry to the woodshed and telling them it’s time for someone else to take the helm. The Democrats have sold out to organized labor many times in the past, and usually won doing it. From the looks of things right now, they need to in the worst possible way now.

Just don’t let John Sweeney deliver the message. Get one of the Obama girls.

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Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, afl-cio, barack obama, harry reid, hillary clinton, john-sweeney, minimum-wage, nancy pelosi, organized-labor

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