Posted on 02/12/2014 6:31:30 PM PST by Libloather
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Democrats were also pleased by Obama’s executive order raising the minimum wage for several hundred thousand federal workers, which plays into their drive to raise the wage nationally to $10.10 per hour. House Republicans are opposed to such a move.
And Pelosi and her top lieutenants — many of whom played big roles in the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act — were very happy to hear that more one million Americans had signed up for state and federal health exchanges during January, bringing the total Obamacare sign ups to 3.3 million.
So while most House Republicans believe that their legislative work is essentially done for the year, Democrats signaled they want to enact lots more legislation. They can’t force Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and the GOP Conference to take up any of their measures, but Democrats believe they can score big political points by pushing the majority to act.
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For the first time I agree with the Democommies, it is now about survival, not politics.
Everything the Democrats do is about politics. What’s good for the citizenry comes in second, or maybe third, or more.
Exactly right. What is good for the citizens be damned. What is good for the survival of the dimoKKKRAT party is what is right.
Aren’t givermint contractors required, under davis-bacon required to pay “prevailing (union) wages? One of the major reasons givermint projects are so costly!!!
The ignorance of this country is mind-boggling. We, the collective we, tend to think the people in our history were ignorant. I say they were far more educated about their Government than the average voter today.
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