Hooray, let's stick it to up for the common man:
A week after the GOP-led Senate rejected an increase to the minimum wage, Senate Democrats on Tuesday vowed to block pay raises for members of Congress until the minimum wage is increased.
What a showing of solidarity! Until those at the bottom of the pay scale get $7.25 an hour (never mind how many of them it will drive out of work), members of Congress will have to subsist on the pitiful scraps they get now.
I also loved Reid's whining about how Congress is allowing itself to be distracted by such issues as "gay marriage, the estate tax and flag burning" instead of dealing with the important stuff. Flag burning, I seem to recall, took up all of a day and a half. That's not much of a distraction. If they'd managed to keep that issue going for, say, two weeks, just imagine how many of the "important issues" they could have stayed away from instead of screwing them up royally.
The way Congress has been going lately, I'd prefer gridlock. In the meantime, bring on the distractions.
