Mitt Flips on the Minimum Wage

Mitt Romney flips on the minimum wage:

Automatic increases to the state minimum wage were a key part of Mitt Romney's campaign platform for governor--No. 39 on the list of promises he offered Massachusetts voters in 2002.

Now that Romney is seeking the 2008 Republican nomination for president, he is shying away from minimum wage indexing at the federal level.

His enthusiastic support in the past for raising the minimum wage is now making trouble for him with the right-wing base.

Thanks to the Democratic Congress, the federal minimum wage was raised today for the first time in a decade. About 5.6 million workers will now make just over $15,000 a year, due to raises of 70 cents an hour.