How GOPers Support the Working Poor

The following Senators, all GOPers, voted against cloture on the Senate measure to increase the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour:

NAYs ---43 Alexander (R-TN) Allard (R-CO) Bennett (R-UT) Bond (R-MO) Bunning (R-KY) Burr (R-NC) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Craig (R-ID) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Dole (R-NC) Domenici (R-NM) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Hagel (R-NE) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Kyl (R-AZ) Lott (R-MS) Lugar (R-IN) Martinez (R-FL) McCain (R-AZ) McConnell (R-KY) Murkowski (R-AK) Roberts (R-KS) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Smith (R-OR) Stevens (R-AK) Sununu (R-NH) Thomas (R-WY) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) Voinovich (R-OH)

We the people (remember us) of Colorado voted to enshrine a fair minimum wage into our State constitution in the Great Republican Rejection of 2006. Note Allard, our not-too-soon to be retiring Senator and lover of torture, voted against the will of Colorado. Otherwise the usual suspects are in the list including Man of the People, John Blowin' in the Wind McCain.

These guys have truly lost touch. Try living anywhere in this country on $7.25 per hour. My bet is they'll say they're in favor of increasing the minimum wage, but only if we can decrease Paris Hilton's tax load on her inheritance (Bill Gates referred to the Inheritance Tax as the Opportunity Reallocation Tax, a much more descriptive label of the social function of the tax). So if you want the person waiting your table or cleaning your latrine to get a pay raise, you have to give the Hilton heiresses millions.

Supporting the poor, one millionaire at a time. Today's GOP.