minimum wage

Boehner honored on the front page of Hanabusa's official websiteAs we've been warning she would, corrupt New Dem Colleen Hanabusa has already, albeit inadvertently, shown her true colors when it comes to choosing between her wealthy business donors and ordinary working families.

Is it really a mystery why President Obama-- and almost every incumbent Democrat in the Senate, from the most liberal to the most conservative-- have endorsed Brian Schatz for reelection and not corrupt New Dem Colleen Hanabusa?

I have no idea why, but corrupt conservative New Dem Colleen Hanabusa has me on her mailing list. Usually I just delete all the EMILY's List-generated spam she sends out, but this morning I opened one because "minimum wage" was in the subject line. A consistent shill for Big Business and K Street lobbyists, I wanted to see if she was using Republican talking points in her argument. As it turned out, she claimed to be in favor of raising the minimum wage-- just not as much as any other Democrats!

By Ron Unz | February 9, 2013

If it works for Sunny John, it works for me.by KenAs I've had frequent occasion to note, Howie and I tend to respond to remarkably similar stories, and so it is that while I was still thinking about the hoped-for suicide of Housa Speaker "Sunny John" Boehner, Howie was already asking: "Will Boehner Commit Suicide Over The Minimum Wage?

Cook's Amy Walter penned a warning for Republicans on the minimum wage yesterday: "when it comes to the debate over the minimum wage, there is more risk than reward for Republicans."

by KenI hope it's not news to you that nobody has come anywhere close to figuring out a new working model for providing and paying for content on the Internet, or that the idea that content is and should be "free" has now spilled over into more and more print media.

Since 2007, Democrats have been predicting that demographics, coupled with Republican knee-jerk bigotry and xenophobia, will turn Texas blue within a decade. When Texas-born Rand Paul confirmed this yesterday, he neglected to mention that Georgia is turning blue just as quickly.

Late last night, we looked at the uncomfortable fact that progressives are not in control of the Democratic Party and that their values and ideals more often than not take a backseat to the career-driven needs of centrists and corrupted corporate shills.

Last year-- in fact just short of a year ago-- the House voted on a Democratic proposal to raise the minimum wage. It failed 184-233, with every single Republican and 6 of the most corrupt, right-wing Democrats voting with the GOP, these six: