Nothing seems to turn out right.
And the congressional Democrats harass them mercilessly. One of the Democrats' favored instruments for harassment is insistence on a periodic increase in the federal minimum wage. It leaves the Republicans speechless, defenseless, and terrified that Arianna Huffington will publicly cast doubt on their claim to being compassionate conservatives. It apparently matters not that since at least the 1950's a sound body of scholarship has been amassed indicating that if a politician were truly compassionate he would leave the minimum wage to be decided by market forces. Years of economic study has demonstrated that raising the minimum wage usually puts poorly trained employees out of work and marginal businesses out of business.