Soulless Republicans Vote To Eliminate Minimum Wage

Well, the Republicans have reached a new low.

First, they decided to deny what 80% of Americans want: the minimum wage to be raised. Then, they tried to eliminate the federal minimum wage entirely.

While the Democrats in the Senate have been trying to overcome the Republican filibuster of a bill to raise the minimum wage (which has not been raised in over a decade), 28 Republicans decided that it was a good time to try to repeal the federal minimum wage.

Senate GOP Leadership Tries To Eliminate Federal Minimum Wage

Senator Wayne Allard (R-CO), evidently convinced that he was beating a dead horse by continuing his quest to ban flag-burning and discriminate against gay people, announced this month that he would not seek reelection in 2008 and the thought of having so little time left to screw the working poor from a comfy U.S. Senate seat must have just been eating him alive.

Allard, who has voted against a minimum wage increase more often than Fox News smears Barack Obama, went for broke this week and introduced a bill that would have eliminated the Federal Minimum Wage entirely and left the wage rate for the lowest-paid workers to each state.

In Kansas, this would mean that workers would revert to the state-mandated minimum wage of $2.65 per hour, which is currently superseded by the federal minimum of $5.15.

So who are these 28 Republican Senators who seem to dislike minimum wage earners so much? Who are these senators who think minimum wage earners deserve a pay cut more than a pay raise? Bob Geiger calls them out:

Who Wanted To Eliminate The Federal Minimum Wage?

Here's the Republican Senators who voted for the measure killed in the Senate yesterday that would have eliminated the Federal Minimum Wage entirely:

Alexander (R-TN)

Allard (R-CO)

Bennett (R-UT)

Bond (R-MO)

Brownback (R-KS)

Bunning (R-KY)

Burr (R-NC)

Chambliss (R-GA)

Coburn (R-OK)

Cochran (R-MS)

Cornyn (R-TX)

Craig (R-ID)

Crapo (R-ID)

DeMint (R-SC)

Ensign (R-NV)

Enzi (R-WY)

Graham (R-SC)

Gregg (R-NH)

Hagel (R-NE)

Hatch (R-UT)

Inhofe (R-OK)

Isakson (R-GA)

Kyl (R-AZ)

Lott (R-MS)

McCain (R-AZ)

McConnell (R-KY)

Sununu (R-NH)

Thomas (R-WY)

For the record, those running for reelection in 2008 are Alexander, Bennett, Chambliss, Cochran, Cornyn, Craig, Enzi, Graham, Hagel, Inhofe, McConnell and Sununu.

Oh, and that guy McCain is probably running for president and Brownback definitely is.

I would also like to add that some of these Senators, like Sen. Hatch, Sen. Ensign, and Sen. Kyl were just re-elected in November. So Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, are you happy now? Unfortunately, you will probably forget their reprehensible votes by the time they are up for re-election in six years.

Hopefully, people like me will be there to remind everyone that when each of these 28 Senators is up for re-election that they do not support the Americans they work for, and that they deserve to be fired. If they are fired, I suggest they find a nice minimum wage job and dicover for themselves what it is like to make less than the cost of living.