President Obama's newfound enthusiasm for the minimum wage is the political equivalent of a ruse of war.
With an eye on the approaching midterm elections, the Demagogue-in-Chief hopes to lure his Republican enemies into a discussion on his ideological home turf so he can pound away at them mercilessly and distract from his own political problems.
As his approval rating slides, Obama has heartily embraced the red herring as the cornerstone of his public relations strategy. Bearing his by now familiar deer-in-the-headlights look, he officially knows next to nothing about what his administration is doing and is constantly on the lookout for scapegoats and other distractions.
Democrats, as well as those leftists not disillusioned with Obama, desperately want to recapture the House and hang onto the Senate in the hope of imposing even more destructive progressive policies on the populace before a new president takes over in January 2017. The November congressional elections give these left-wingers their last kick at the legislative can during the Obama presidency. It is Obama's final opportunity to drop-kick America over the cliff and into the bottomless socialist abyss.
Obama promises that 2014 will be "a year of action." The president plans to keep the chattering classes busy blathering on endlessly about stuff that doesn't matter to normal people. He knows dragging voters to the polls in an off-year election is hard, so he wants to excite his base.
Obama is pushing a minimum wage increase, an otherwise marginal issue voters place well down on the list of national priorities, because he needs to get left-wing voters emotional. Even though under 3 percent of all workers in the nation (and an even lower percentage of full-time workers) earn the minimum wage, Obama knows that whipping up indignation over the issue gets voters to the polls.
Obama's former employer and legal client ACORN, the huge community organizing network that went bankrupt in 2010, viewed raising the minimum wage as an electoral crowd pleaser.
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