I did not realize that John Boehner once said that he would rather commit suicide than vote for a hike in the minimum wage. Sure, the comment came back in 1996, but he has remained opposed to raising the minimum wage ever since. The only time he actually voted to raise it, it was part of an election year show-vote that slashed the Estate Tax and was dead on arrival in the Senate.
You have to wonder about someone who would say something like that. You know, that he’d rather kill himself than give working people a small raise. That’s fucked up. That’s almost crazy.
Politically, it’s sub-mental. You’d think he’d be afraid to make a remark like that, but I guess it made him more popular with his corporate golfing buddies. Back in those days, Boehner was passing out checks from tobacco lobbyists on the floor of the House. So, we know he had his priorities right.
Nothing has changed in the interim.
