How quaint. Democrats are attempting to extort votes from their own party in the US House while simultaneously pushing stalled legislation in the US Senate through the back door.House leaders have added legislation raising the federal minimum wage to an emergency spending bill for the Iraq war. They hope to break a logjam with the Senate over the wage bill, a top Democratic priority that was once seen on Capitol Hill as a relatively easy compromise. House leaders also hope the addition of the wage provisions will induce House liberals to vote for the $105 billion war package, which authorizes funds for Iraq while setting a timeline for withdrawal that would require combat operations to end by August 2008.
The “Culture of Corruption” era appears to have been replaced by the “Ethnicity of Extortion”.