In between speculating that Tom Daschle may enter the 2006 Senate race in Minnesota and playing a horribly unfunny prepared bit that sought to mock State Senator Michele Bachmann, local Air America talk show hostess Wendy Wilde unleashed a statement of such stunning incongruity this morning that it left me shaking my head in disbelief. She had been discussing the proposal to raise the minimum wage, especially Senator Bachmann's opposition to it. Then, just as she was going to a break, she mentioned the $28,000 in pay raises that members of Congress had given themselves since 1996 (the last time the federal minimum wage was increased) and calculated that those raises totaled somewhere around $9 million (not exactly sure how the math works on that one). She then asked:
"Couldn't they have spared a few pennies of that $9 million to go toward raising the minimum wage?"
Just try to wrap your noggin around that one. Then take a couple of aspirin and wash 'em down with a stiff drink.
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