Tuna-gate

I did a blog yesterday about Nancy Pelosi. In it I referenced the recent minimum wage bill that will go into effect for the entire United States and all of its territories -- except for American Samoa. The reason for the exception is that Nancy Pelosi has protected Starkist Tuna from the wage hike in a back room deal. The wage hike would have cost Starkist millions of dollars. The deal only cost taxpayers the integrity of the Speaker of the House.

Oddly enough, the only place I encountered this story was on the Fox News Channel and the New York Post. Both conservative voices.

However, if she had been a Republican, the mainstream (liberal) media would have had a feeding frenzy. It would have had a "gate" name by now. Such as: Tuna-gate, or Pelosi-gate, or Water-gate II, or Samoa-gate or something. The talking heads would have been yakking non-stop all weekend and Michael Moore would have had a film crew out already. Leno would have had some else write him a wry quip to stumble through and Letterman would have read a Top Ten list about it. And Clooney, and Penn, and Williams, and Baldwin, and every other celebrity asshole would have had their say about it.

But a liberal did it during her First 100 Hours of The Most Ethical Congress in History. So it gets swept under the rug.

And now, her fellow Congressmen will have two reasons to think they smell fish when Nancy Pelosi walks into the room.

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Payback Is A Pelosi

It seems that Nancy Pelosi has set aside her high moral standards for some old fashioned corruption.

WASHINGTON - Red-faced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went into damage-control mode yesterday after Republicans charged she slipped a loophole into the Democrats' just-passed minimum-wage bill to benefit a company in her San Francisco district.

The legislation hiking the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour covered the entire United States and all its territories - except for one: American Samoa.

The GOP said Samoa was exempted because Democrat Pelosi is protecting the food giant Del Monte Corp., which is based in her district. Del Monte owns StarKist Tuna, which employs more than 5,000 Samoans, almost 75 percent of the island's work force.

The company had opposed the legislation, which passed Wednesday. The legislation increases the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour.

Now, it seems to me that if Pelosi is protecting her big business cronies at Del Monte and Star Kist from the unreasonable expense of hiking the minimum wage in Samoa, the same economics should apply elsewhere. If this is bad enough for business in Samoa that she is willing to become what she claims to despise, is it not bad for business for the entire United States and all of its territories?

You see, the Democrats claim compassion. They claim they are for the working man. The little guy. They want to raise the minimum wage, provide universal health care and give away other freebie benefits that would back-door tax many, many businesses right out of existence. So that they can be perceived as caring.

But the truth of the matter is that they are practicing a kind of politics that goes back to ancient Rome. Quiet the masses. Give away free bread, gold coins, and provide the Games as a distraction. Buy votes.

They do not care about about any of the things they are always mouthing off about other than their value as issues. The liberal agenda is one of made up entitlements, class warfare, and phony environmental concerns. They are (and always have been) the worst offenders, by far, when it come to ethics. They truly believe that the end justifies the means and that they are somehow more enlightened and better than other people and that those silly rules are just to keep the lesser people in their place.

Well, Ms. Speaker Pelosi, We the People have your number. And it didn't take long to get it.

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