Dear Democrats: Here's the thing. A full 74% of Americans polled favored raising the minimum wage..

[phantom power]

Central to the ads that TBOTP helpfully collected for us all was an invitation-only hootenanny held by the Kochs last June to which a veritable All Star team of prospective conservative political porn stars showed up to demonstrate their facility with the money shot, and I do mean money shot. And nobody auditioned for his close-up more enthusiastically than did Mitch McConnell, the Minority Leader of the United States Senate. The Nation got a hold of an audiotape of Mitch's audition and, boy howdy, this guy has the potential to be the Ron Jeremy of the Koch grindhouse.

So in the House and Senate, we own the budget. So what does that mean? That means that we can pass the spending bill. And I assure you that in the spending bill, we will be pushing back against this bureaucracy by doing what's called placing riders in the bill. No money can be spent to do this or to do that. We're going to go after them on healthcare, on financial services, on the Environmental Protection Agency, across the board (inaudible). All across the federal government, we're going to go after it...And we're not going to be debating all these gosh darn proposals. That's all we do in the Senate is vote on things like raising the minimum wage [sic]—cost the country 500,000 new jobs; extending unemployment—that's a great message for retirees; uh, the student loan package the other day, that's just going to make things worse, uh. These people believe in all the wrong things.

Dear Democrats: Here's the thing. A full 74 percent of Americans polled favored raising the minimum wage. Mitch McConnell just spit in their eye to curry favor with two Americans. A full 69 percent of Americans polled favored extending unemployment benefits. But none of them are named Charles Koch or David Koch, so Mitch McConnell believes they don't count. Mitch McConnell has handed you a nice juicy steak out of which you can make a meal. Please don't waste time waiting for the sauce.

Mitch McConnell has pronounced to himself, and the Republican Senate majority, that he proposes to lead in the next Congress, completely open for business on behalf of two radical conservative yahoos who have maintained their fortune by buying politicians and despoiling the planet. (By the way, screw them and their charity work. Mobsters used to buy stained-glass windows for the church, too.) For the love of god, whatever you do, don't listen to people like Mike Allen.

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[Fred Sanders]

1. 74% want to raise the minimum wage but in midterms only 40% want to raise their hands to vote.

And no amount of voter registration or GOTV or being on the right side of the issues, even all of them, seem to make much of a difference.

My suggestion, since you ask?

GOTR, Get Out The Rage.

Ferguson proved a big clue as to how to do that. I am not above a little rage against the machine being taken out at the ballot box.

Fighting fascism is as easy as that and as important.

[Laelth]

2. Hear, hear!

Increase the minimum wage!

-Laelth

[world wide wally]

3. If Democrats can't beat this bunch of traitorous, self-righteous Republican idiots and retain the

Senate, there is less hope for this country than I thought

[Eleanors38]

4. But the DNC must get corporate power's OK.

[cstanleytech]

5. Problem still exists though that raising it wont solve the problem which is

that congress needs to be stripped of the power to raise it and it should be given to the CBO.