Craziest Republican of the Day: Linda McMahon

By Michael J.W. Stickings

For suggesting that the minimum wage, already low, ought to be lowered:

Linda McMahon, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Connecticut, suggested Thursday that the U.S. ought to take a second look at the federal minimum wage.

"The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage," McMahon said at a press conference.

After the event, "McMahon admitted she didn't know what the current minimum wage is or if any of her employees at World Wrestling Entertainment are paid it," CTNewsJunkie.com reported. McMahon was CEO of the WWE before launching her Senate campaign.

In other words, screw the poor and those just barely getting by. The economy is still in terrible shape, but let's just make their lives even more difficult. No matter that McMahon herself is worth millions and doesn't have a fucking clue.

She may be crazy, but she's certainly a Republican, and so her cruelty is right in line with her politics. It hardly distinguishes her from her fellow Republicans.

As her opponent, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, responded:

Linda McMahon laid off ten percent of her workers and takes home $46 million a year so it's no surprise she's thinking about lowering the minimum wage.

Remind me again how Republicans are successfully portraying themselves as populists, as the party of the people, how they're propagandizing voters into believing that they'll do something other than make the rich richer and the powerful more powerful.

It requires astonishing ignorance and denial to buy that bullshit.