Democrats with weak backbones.

Wimp Democrats look to split the baby on minimum wage (Click on this heading to read more)

Rss@dailykos.com (laura Clawson)
Thursday, February 27, 2014, 10:51 am
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There is no amount of sarcasm and resentment too great to read into it when I say this: Fan-freaking-tastic. The Senate's Wimp Democrat Caucus is busy trying to decide how small of a minimum wage increase would be small enough to get their votes.
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Sen. Mark Pryor is definitely okay with a minimum wage of $8.50 an hour, a level being sought in a ballot measure in his home state of Arkansas. Oh, wow. More than $17,500 for a year of full-time work. Talk about making work pay! Meanwhile, Sen. Mary Landrieu is concerned about:
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    ... the tipped wage, which would rise from $2.13 an hour to more than $7 an hour by 2019 under the Democrats' bill and is opposed by the restaurant industry. She isn't sure where she will ultimately land on $10.10 an hour but said there "may be" a middle ground.

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    "I'm considering how high the increase should be," Landrieu said. "So while I'm very supportive and generally supportive, I'm working with a few colleagues to see what maybe we could talk about on that tip wage issue. Republicans, too."
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There's a reason the tipped minimum wage has been stuck at $2.13 for more than 20 years, and it's legislators like Landrieu trying to make the restaurant industry happy by maintaining rock-bottom deep-poverty wages.