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Can shame be felt by a United States Senator?

by: Zappatero

Tue Dec 11, 2012 at 12:54:15 PM MST


Not hardly:

Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (R. Ala.) proposed an amendment to the Farm Bill earlier this year that would have removed $11 billion from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over 10 years. Fortunately it failed.  

Yes, this pig literally wanted to take food out the mouths of hungry children, and, of course, he opposes allowing the Bush tax cuts to end on the wealthy.

Soledad O'Brien of CNN did some of that journalist stuff on the Confederate Senator:

O'BRIEN: You voted in fact in 2002 and 2008 to grow the program yourself. I think first under President Bush in 2002, and when it comes to fraud, this Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said SNAP has "the most rigorous quality control systems of any public benefit program in recent years, it's received its lowest error rates on record."

Most people who are on it aren't working the system, they are just hungry people.

When you're thinking of things to cut, people basically say, why are you trying to balance the budget on people making less than $23,000 a year, I think that range roughly, is the national average of a family on food stamps. So why not cut something else? There are other things that could be on the table before you pick a program that is feeding the nation's poor children.

SESSIONS: I'm not picking a program. (LIE - he did obviously pick it. - z)

I say all programs need to be examined in this government. This government wasting money every day. There is no doubt about that. We have got to do better. And food stamps is a program that was totally exempt from any oversight (Another LIE - there is tremendous oversight and the program is very efficient and fraud-free. -z).

O'BRIEN: Two of those times you voted for it, sir. 2002 and 2008 you voted for it under George Bush. Some people are saying, it's growing because people are hurting.

SESSIONS: I voted for the ag bill that had that in it.

So no fact could shame this senator. No reminder that he insisted that poor children shouldn't have the most basic of human needs in one of the poorest states in our nation.

This is a United States Senator in the 21st century.

This is a man whom Mark Udall and Mike Bennet long to be bipartisan with no matter the policy, no matter the results.

Shame on all of them.

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