They are masters of the farcical, these congressional Democrats who propose to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 this election year while calling Republican resisters Scrooges and painting themselves as heroes to the helpless. Clearly, this is the crowd that ought to be running the Senate and the House.

Not to be impertinent, but I can’t help wondering why their eye is trained on so tiny a percentage of the American work force, many of whom are hardly poor.