{"id":40395,"date":"2013-12-08T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40395"},"modified":"2014-02-20T16:55:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T22:55:22","slug":"keith-ellison-and-barack-rex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40395","title":{"rendered":"Keith Ellison And <i>Barack Rex<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two ways to look at R<a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/mrctv-blog\/craig-bannister\/rep-ellison-we-demand-obama-raise-minimum-wage-executive-order\">ep. Keith Ellison&#8217;s statement to a group of minimum wage protesters <\/a>last week; emphasis added by me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We in Congress will try to raise the minimum wage. We got opponents on the other side of the aisle who say that there shouldn&#8217;t be no minimum wage. So, we are in difficulty fighting these guys.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, we know, at the executive level, <strong>an executive order can change the situation. We demand it, right now. Mr. President, sign the executive order<\/strong>. We demand this federal worker work reform, federal contractors. Give the pay raise, the livable, fair wage. <strong>Let&#8217;s do it now. I gave him a letter to this effect, yesterday<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Ellison walked off stage, the crowd chanted: &#8220;Sign the executive order!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Either Ellison thinks Obama is a King, with absolute control over this country, or he has very little respect for his audience and thinks he can trick them into believing so.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to lean toward &#8220;has very little respect, and thinks he can trick them&#8221;; that a graduate of a Jesuit high school, Wayne State University and a Tier 1 law school thinks saying things like &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t be no minimum wage&#8221; is authentic reeks of distilled cynicism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two ways to look at Rep. Keith Ellison&#8217;s statement to a group of minimum wage protesters last week; emphasis added by me: &#8220;We in Congress will try to raise the minimum wage. We got opponents on the other side of the aisle who say that there shouldn&#8217;t be no minimum wage. So, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,155],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-40395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-mn-congressional","tag-minimum-wage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41970,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40395\/revisions\/41970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}