I suspect there are many Americans who will greatly benefit from that minimum wage increase, assuming the Senate passes it.

This is simply the first month of their session. Already they have promised to work harder than the previous session (where Republicans only held session in the House 72 days), have already passed the first minimum wage increase in 10 years and the long overdue 9/11 commission (a bipartisan recommendation) recommendations, AND, as I made clear, brought in the moderate Republicans to their side, restoring bipartisanship for the first time in awhile...

Yeah...I think that is a fucking good start and I for one am going to encourage it.

And if Edwards is going to go on record opposing this stupid surge, then I am going to encourage THAT as well. As, I suspect, would most of the world which hates Bush's policies in Iraq.

So I am not really sure why you are eager to discourage these changes.