HOWIE SAYS IT ISN'T JUST MASTER RAHM HE INTENDS TO GO AFTER WHEN HE GETS BACK TO THE STATES--HE'S GOT "TEAM BUSH" IN HIS SIGHTS

Ken, it isn't only Rahm Emanuel I hope to fuck up when I get back to America. In fact there are worse enemies to democracy than Emanuel. Let's start with Team Bush. Rove has come up with a plan for Bush to come out "in support" of raising the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour--or at least of a minimum wage bill loaded with poison pills devised by the GOP allies in Big Business.

George Miller is already all over this. Here's a statement from his office today:

REP. MILLER STATEMENT ON MINIMUM WAGE

WASHINGTON, D.C.--U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the Chairman-Designate of the Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following statement today in response to comments from President Bush, delivered at his press conference this morning, about raising the national minimum wage:

"I am pleased to hear that President Bush supports a national minimum wage increase from $5.15 per hour to $7.25 per hour. But let's be clear: given that nearly a decade has passed since the last minimum wage increase, no one can seriously believe that the proposed increase will harm the small business sector. More than half the states already have laws setting their own minimum wages above $5.15 per hour. The states have been forced to act because Congress, for far too long, has failed to act.

"A minimum wage increase should not and need not be conditional on other legislation or policy changes. Increasing the minimum wage is the right thing to do; it is long overdue; it has the overwhelming support of the American people; and when Congress returns in January, it is what we will do."

Remember how the Republican neo-fascist scum used to warn their automoton supporters that if Democrats won a majority in Congress, committee chairmen would do scary things? They were right. Instead of a corrupt lowlife like "Buck" McKeon chairing the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, we have George Miller, a real patriot fighting for the interests of working families.