Minimum Wage Increase Being Delayed By Democrats

This was the only real piece of legislation that the Dems promised to pass if elected that actually passed. Every other promise they made has yet to come to fruition. Now the minimum wage increase is being delayed because Democrats were trying to use it to get their message across about Iraq.

AP:

Increasing the minimum wage should be easy for a Congress controlled by Democrats, especially with President Bush's pledge of support.

But a $2.10 boost for America's lowest-paid workers is again being delayed, this time in a tussle over whether to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq.

Even the President has vowed to pass this legislation, but the Dems will have none of that.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., decided to attach the minimum wage provisions to the Iraq war spending bill. Normally that's must-pass legislation. Now it's certain to be the subject of Bush's second veto after Democrats loaded it up with a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops.

So instead of getting legislation through, that was promised to their constituents, on its own merits ... the Dems decided to play political football with the minimum wage increase.

This is exactly why we need a line item veto for all presidents. They can cut through the pork and partisanship to get things accomplished. The Democrats have promised to get the increase through, and they will, but thousands of poor folks depending on that increase they were promised will now have to wait until Reid and Pelosi are done farting around with Iraq.

You can this delay to the delay of new armored vehicles getting to our troops on the front line because of the Dems antics.