This week saw a convergence of Republican mendacity and incompetence in the failure of the Farm Bill to pass the U.S. House of Representatives. Additionally, a new and sinister threat has been revealed: Congressman Steve Southerland R-FL.
Southerland apparently has a different Bible than the rest us. Reading from the book of Ayn Rand, Republican Jesus said, “Blessed are they that starve the poor in the name of personal responsibility for they shall be re-elected by an avalanche of corporate money.” According to Bob Greenstein of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Southerland offered an amendment so cartoonishly evil and draconian that it cannot be exaggerated.
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