The next two paragraphs tell you everthing you need to know about today’s Republican party:
House Republican leaders, giving in to political reality, plan a vote to raise the $5.15 minimum wage before leaving Washington this weekend for a five-week recess.
“Whether people like it or not, we need to go ahead with it,” said Rep. Mike Castle, R-Delaware, who supports the idea. “There’s a general agreement among Republicans (opposing the raise) that “maybe we don’t like it much, but we need to move forward with it just for political reasons.”
Only doing things for political reasons, not because they’re the right things to do in the first place:
Today’s Republican Party: Inconsistent Integrity, Unquestionably Unprincipled.
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and sons Carter and Colton.
