Republicans For Raising The Minimum Wage

• December 21, 2006

It’s looking like President Bush, with some backing from Congressional Republicans, is ok with raising the minimum wage as long as it is coupled with “coupled with tax and regulatory relief for small businesses.”
Which is a total joke. This, coupled with the President’s apparent support for raising taxes in exchange some Social Security reform (which I’m a little more open-minded about) has me worried. It’s beginning to seem to me like the President is willing to exchange core conservative principles (low taxes, less regulation on businesses) for some nominal progress on issues he could then claim as a legacy. Like Social Security reform, etc.
Now that the Dems have control of Congress I don’t want a “go-along-to-get-along” president. This is something I became worried about around the time of the President’s joint press conference with the resigning Donald Rumsfeld. At that time I was worried about the President letting the Dems have their way with domestic policy to get them off his back when it comes to foreign policy and the war in Iraq.
And I think that’s pretty much what we can expect from the President over the last two years. He’s going to pick a couple of key issues to promote for his legacy (the war, Social Security) and then pretty much let the Democrats do as they please outside of that.
Not a very heartening reality for principled conservatives.

Tags: Domestic Issues, Politics, War On Terror

http://pencilnub.com/ Steve

Missourians voted to raise the minimum wage, which I found bizarre. The bizzrre part being that the state allows people to get something like the minimum wage on a statewide ballot initiative. Apparently, they collected enough signatures to get the state law changed, but fell short of the number needed for a constitutional amendment, since, you know, the minimum wage belongs in the constitution.

This is clearly a state issue. The federal government just needs to get rid of the federal minimum and tell the states to do their jobs. All these clowns that keep complaining about congress not raising it need to talk to their state legislatures instead. $6.50 (or whatever) goes much further in North Dakota than it does in San Francisco.
http://pencilnub.com/ Steve

And I think that’s pretty much what we can expect from the President over the last two years. He’s going to pick a couple of key issues to promote for his legacy (the war, Social Security) and then pretty much let the Democrats do as they please outside of that.

Which really pisses me off because no Democrat would play that game with a Republican Congress. How many times did Clinton veto welfare reform and the partial birth abortion ban?
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Republicans lost in states where minimum wage increases were on the ballot.

That’s because the Dems prefer the minimum wage as a political football. During the first two years of Clinton’s presidency, the Dems controlled the White House and both houses of Congress, yet no effort was made to enact a higher minimum wage until after the Dems lost the House.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

I thought that the House was willing to pass a minimum wage bill as long as we got tax breaks (death tax in fact) with it. The Demoncrats would have nothing to do with that.
aNONOMISLY

a sad but true, …

raising the minimum wage is so wildly popular amongs the voters (even amongst registered Republicans, which shouldn be confused with fiscal conservatism) that the Democrats won’t bother to take Bush’ announced compromise on the issue. They realize its a good political move to send Bush a minimum wage hike, dare him to veto it, and then dare Repulbican in Congress to vote not to override said veto. ..it’s politically better for them to keep is as an issuie for the next election. ..my opinion is that Bush’ comment was all bluff and nothing much, i.e. the Dems will write it ..won’t compromise much. Bush will sign what they send him.
aNONOMISLY

Neither of the parties has my overall interests at heart and both are taking us to hell in a rowboat. The only difference is the Republican are rowing slower
Stormy70

Republicans lost in states where minimum wage increases were on the ballot. This does not bother me as it is good politics to raise it, especially if we get more tax relief.
LoadTheMule

I’ve said from the beginning that President Bush is a Republican, but not necessarily a conservative. I’m a conservative, but not necessarily a Republican. I vote Republican more often than not, but that’s something of a Hobson’s Choice. Neither of the parties has my overall interests at heart and both are taking us to hell in a rowboat. The only difference is the Republican are rowing slower.

Regards…

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