{"id":755,"date":"2004-10-14T15:51:51","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T19:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=755"},"modified":"2004-10-14T15:51:51","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T19:51:51","slug":"minimum-wage-minimum-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"Minimum Wage, Minimum Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wondered about this last night, and was going to do some checking on it today. Looks like Kevin Drum has done <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2004_10\/004923.php\" target=\"_blank\">the heavy lifting<\/a> for me&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><b>THE MINIMUM WAGE TAP DANCE<\/b>&#8230;.One of George Bush&#8217;s lamest answers last night was his reponse to John Kerry&#8217;s charge that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/politics\/debatereferee\/debate_1013.html\" target=\"_Blank\" class=\"mlink\">he opposed raising the minimum wage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Actually, Mitch McConnell had a minimum-wage plan that I supported that would have increased the minimum wage.<\/div>\n<p>My initial reaction was pretty simple: &#8220;Mitch McConnell is a Republican. You&#8217;re a Republican. The Republican party controls both the House and Senate. So if you supported McConnell&#8217;s bill, why didn&#8217;t it pass?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer, of course, is that there was no such plan and no such bill.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2004_10\/004923.php\" target=\"_blank\">the rest of the sorry story<\/a>&#8230;As expected though, it&#8217;s just more smoke and mirrors from an increasingly desperate Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wondered about this last night, and was going to do some checking on it today. Looks like Kevin Drum has done the heavy lifting for me&#8230; THE MINIMUM WAGE TAP DANCE&#8230;.One of George Bush&#8217;s lamest answers last night was his reponse to John Kerry&#8217;s charge that he opposed raising the minimum wage: Actually, Mitch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}