By Baxter
Now, this is very Inside Baseball. But we cats are having a hard time seeing a downside to the Senate Parliamentarian putting the kibosh on the $15 minimum wage — despite certain journalists casting it as "a big loss for Democrats."
Whut? It's not like we tried to pass a damn bill and failed.
We were on the cusp of a big fight over including the minimum wage in President Biden's COVID relief legislation, and the talking heads were simply salivating over Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema balking because of it. You could see the headlines already: "Dems in Disarray!"
(Seems like the Republicans are in that very state right now. Why doesn't the press write "disarray" crap about them? It is the lack of alliteration?)
Anyway, now all that Manchin-Sinema stuff can be avoided, and the Democrats in the Senate can still bring up the minimum wage in a separate bill and make heartless Republicans vote against it. They'll already have to go on record against the COVID bill — without their minimum wage excuse. So now there could be two potential pieces of wildly popular legislation that the GOP will be on the wrong side of.
Sounds good to us. And it just might be okay with Joe Biden, too — for now — because he understands the Senate, and knows it could all come out in the wash. We cats PURR.
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