Joe Miller, Alaska's Republican US Senate candidate who is endorsed by Tea Party star Sarah Palin, bashed federal unemployment compensation as being not "constitutionally authorized."
Miller hinted at eliminating unemployment compensation before pulling his own moose-poop-stained boot from his mouth following revelations that his own wife received unemployment when she was discharged from a government job where she worked for him.
Apparently Tea Baggers don't see the naked nepotism in Miller having placed his wife on the public payroll as contradicting their oft-spouted claim about wanting to "restore integrity" to government.
Republican multi-millionaire Linda McMahon, the Connecticut US Senate candidate, called for lowering the federal minimum wage, an already paltry figure that keeps a family of four below the federal poverty level even if they put in a 40-hour work week.
McMahon also foot-in-mouth admitted she didn't know the exact amount of the minimum wage in Connecticut, and didn't know if any of her employees in the World Wrestling enterprise she formerly headed were paid minimum wage.
This insensitivity to the plight of the suffering jobless on the part of GOP big-wigs and their right-wing candidates exposes an alarming insanity among non-wealthy Republicans and their Tea Party confederates, who blindly back politicians whose policies work harshly against their own basic economic interests.
My friends are hurting. I can't help them. And that hurts me"
Miller hinted at eliminating unemployment compensation before pulling his own moose-poop-stained boot from his mouth following revelations that his own wife received unemployment when she was discharged from a government job where she worked for him.
Apparently Tea Baggers don't see the naked nepotism in Miller having placed his wife on the public payroll as contradicting their oft-spouted claim about wanting to "restore integrity" to government.
Republican multi-millionaire Linda McMahon, the Connecticut US Senate candidate, called for lowering the federal minimum wage, an already paltry figure that keeps a family of four below the federal poverty level even if they put in a 40-hour work week.
This insensitivity to the plight of the suffering jobless on the part of GOP big-wigs and their right-wing candidates exposes an alarming insanity among non-wealthy Republicans and their Tea Party confederates, who blindly back politicians whose policies work harshly against their own basic economic interests.
My friends are hurting. I can't help them. And that hurts me"
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