{"id":5511,"date":"2014-05-09T19:10:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T19:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2014-05-09T19:10:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T19:10:51","slug":"romney-switches-course-on-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5511","title":{"rendered":"Romney switches course on minimum wage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Do you recall the 2004 presidential campaign political ad that lampooned Democratic nominee U.S. Sen John Kerry for saying he was &#8220;in favor of the Iraq War before I opposed it&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Well, 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney once opposed increasing the minimum wage but now he favors it.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/morning-joe\/watch\/romney-on-minimum-wage-raise-it-251118147687<\/p>\n<p>Romney spoke correctly on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; broadcast this morning by saying Republicans should be the party of more and better-paying jobs. He reminded his hosts that he parted company with the conservative wing of his party by favoring an increase in the minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Romney now is aboard the same wagon with a majority of Americans who favor increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour.<\/p>\n<p>His Republican colleagues in Congress need to listen to the party&#8217;s most recent presidential nominee who, let&#8217;s not forget, received nearly 61 million votes in the 2012 election.<\/p>\n<p>To their discredit, though, congressional Republicans are listening instead to tea party conservatives who don&#8217;t want to lift minimum-wage earners who have to support their families out of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>And hasn&#8217;t President Obama been saying that no family relying on the minimum wage should live in poverty? Strangely, Mitt Romney&#8217;s stance put him squarely in the same corner with the man who defeated him in the 2012 election.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t wait for Romney to extol the president&#8217;s correctness on the minimum wage issue. That would go beyond the pale.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you recall the 2004 presidential campaign political ad that lampooned Democratic nominee U.S. Sen John Kerry for saying he was &#8220;in favor of the Iraq War before I opposed it&#8221;? Well, 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney once opposed increasing the minimum wage but now he favors it. http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/morning-joe\/watch\/romney-on-minimum-wage-raise-it-251118147687 Romney spoke correctly on MSNBC&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5511\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Romney switches course on minimum wage<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[540,3081,3101,4531],"class_list":["post-5511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-minimum-wage","tag-mitt-romney","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}