By brutally stripping food aid from its farm bill, the House ended a tradition of decency. The choice made by the House in cutting apart the farm bill was one of the most brutal, even in the short history of the House's domination by the Tea Party. Last month, the chamber failed to pass a farm bill that cut $20.5 billion from food stamps because that was still too generous for the most extreme Republican lawmakers. So, in the name of getting something -- anything -- done, Mr. Boehner decided to push through just the agriculture part of the bill. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.