Republican's Filibuster Kills Minimum Wage Hike

Yesterday the Republicans filibuster killed the Minimum Wage increase(remember when the Republicans REALLY wanted to nuke the filibuster option). Here's Down With Tyranny and the list of the American worker hating Republicans who doomed the minimum wage increase for working families. No only did they block it, they actually tried to kill the minimum wage altogether. My own senator Mitch "Mo' Money" McConnell who never met a fat cat he couldn't fellate is on the list (of course) and our senile old fart Jim "I used to play baseball" Bunning. McConnell and his fat cats are up for re-election next year:

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.."not a single Democrat joined this insanity, not even Ben Nelson. And the GOP caucus was split down the middle. These are the Republican senators who voted to abolish the federal minimum wage. (The ones in bold/red are up for re-election next year.)





• Alexander (R-TN)
• Allard (R-CO)
• Bennett (R-UT)
• Bond (R-MO)
• Brownback (R-KS)
• Bunning (R-KY)
• Burr (R-NC)
• Chambliss (R-GA)
• Coburn (R-OK)
• Cochran (R-MS)
• Cornyn (R-TX)
• Craig (R-ID)
• Crapo (R-ID)
• DeMint (R-SC)
• Ensign (R-NV)
• Enzi (R-WY)
• Graham (R-SC)
• Gregg (R-NH)
• Hagel (R-NE)
• Hatch (R-UT)
• Inhofe (R-OK)
• Isakson (R-GA)
• Kyl (R-AZ)
• Lott (R-MS)
• McCain (R-AZ)
• McConnell (R-KY)
• Sununu (R-NH)
• Thomas (R-WY)
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Thanks to Bob Geiger and DWT here's what Ted Kennedy had to say about the hatred of these Republicans for the working men and women of America:

"When does this greed stop?... Do you have such disdain for hard-working Americans that you want to pile all your amendments on this? Why don’t you just hold your amendments until other pieces of legislation? Why this volume of amendments on just the issue to try and raise the minimum wage? What is it about it that drives you Republicans crazy? What is it? Something. Something! What is the price that the workers have to pay to get an increase? What is it about working men and women that you find so offensive?"