MICKEY KAUS notes that the Democrats are abandoning the working class:

Weren’t Democrats (especially liberal Democrats) the people who wanted chicken pluckers–and others doing lousy jobs at the bottom of the pyramid–to be paid $10 an hour? Yet here we have the putative lion of liberalism declaring this modest goal (less than $3/hour above the new scheduled minimum wage) to be impossible. Employers just won’t do it! They’ll hire illegals instead. . . . Does anyone on the Left think the Grand Bargain will on average improve the earnings of those Americans now making $6, $7, $8 and $9 an hour?

If Lou Dobbs were running for President, this wouldn’t be happening.

UPDATE: He’d be making a stink about this, too.