Senate passes Jobs and Medicaid bill but Republicans deny poor food stamps

[JohnWxy]

http://www.examiner.com/x-56656-DC-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m8d5-Senate-Republicans-agree-to-state-bailout-only-if-poor-are-denied-food-stamps

Minutes ago, the Senate passed state aid package (H.R. 1586). After months of months wrangling, $26.1 billion in needed help cleared its last major hurdle before going back to the House for reconciliation. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has already called back vacationing Representatives to Washington for an emergency session next week. At Republican insistence, funding for a food stamp program to feed the poor was removed to get the votes of Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Susan Collins (R-ME) to give Democrats a 61-39 pre-midterm election victory, albeit Pyrrhic, being that children of indigent mothers may have less to eat in the future.

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Jay Gould, the Godfather of the modern Republican Party said it: "I can hire half the working class to kill the other half" .....ha-ha-ha...so funny!

John Boehner: "We will be the pary of 'NO!'"

[theothersnippywshrub]

1. How very republican: If you feed the poor, they will breed.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x427117

[KoKo]

2. Games....Games...and More Games? How does a Dem Reply to this?

:shrug:

[JohnWxy]

3. well, first of all they have to mention it when being interviewed on tv.

this is the ONLY way it will ever be brought up. M$M talking heads won't bring it up. ..or that the Republicans have been voting against the bill to loan money to small businesses to help them hire and stay in operation. Republicans have crowed for years how they support small business cause they are the inubators of new jobs. But if it means helping the country build out of this REPUBLICAN DYSTOPIA then they're against it. but, of course, the GOP's confederates in the M$M won't call attention to this fact.

Any failure at getting the economy going is all OBama's fault. That's the GOP party line and M$M is sticking to it!!