Monday, August 23, 2004

 

Welcome To The Working Week

Well, I know it don't thrill you
I hope it don't kill you

If we can ever get our stultifying media to focus on something less new and shiny than the Swift Boat Liars' Choir for maybe five minutes, Kerry might try to change the subject, to point out that the Wrecks-All Wrangler in the Oval Office has now gutted much of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, by revoking overtime pay for millions of Americans.

Yes, that's right; of course the Bush Labor Department will claim that it's extending overtime pay to lots of Americans, but we've all seen this particular hand of Three Card Monte, on this particular streetcorner, before.

Maybe if Kerry got his numbers together, very quickly, (say by tomorrow) and pointed out that Bush just cut most people's paychecks (or extended their already-onerous workweek), without even extending them the courtesy of a reacharound, we might get this class warfare thing up and running nicely in time for the Coronation (uh, I mean the GOP Convention in NYC).

posted by Michael 9:01 PM