Dem clowns in Congress screw up their farm bill veto override, blame Bush; Update: Action on the House floor
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Here’s a side-splitter to start your day. President Bush vetoed the pork-laden farm bill monstrosity this week. The Democrat-led House overrode the veto.
But they forgot to include a substantial chunk of the ginormous bill they wanted passed in the package they sent to the White House. And now, everything’s FUBAR–causing the need for a do-over today. Can’t make this stuff up:
The House overwhelmingly rejected President Bush’s veto Wednesday of a $290 billion farm bill, but what should have been a stinging defeat for the president became an embarrassment for Democrats.
Only hours before the House’s 316-108 vote, Bush had vetoed the five-year measure, saying it was too expensive and gave too much money to wealthy farmers when farm incomes are high. The Senate then was expected to follow suit quickly.
Action stalled, however, after the discovery that Congress had omitted a 34-page section of the bill when lawmakers sent the massive measure to the White House.
That means Bush vetoed a different bill from the one Congress passed, raising questions that the eventual law would be unconstitutional. Republicans objected when Democrats proposed passing the missing section separately and sending that to Bush.
In order to avoid those potential problems, House Democrats hoped to pass the entire bill, again, on Thursday under expedited rules usually reserved for unopposed legislation. The Senate was expected to follow suit. The correct version would then be sent to Bush under a new bill number for another expected veto.
Lawmakers also will have to pass an extension of current farm law, which expires Friday.
Hapless San Fran Nan’s example of leadership? Naturally, she’s blaming the White House for not catching the screw-up she’s responsible for:
“We are trying to understand the ramifications of this congressional farm bill foul-up. We haven’t found a precedent for a congressional blunder of this magnitude,” said Scott Stanzel, a White House spokesman. “It looks like it may be back to square one for them.”
A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., shot back.
“Partisan sniping won’t solve this clerical error that even the White House failed to catch,” said Drew Hammill.
You know all that talk about how you need a woman to clean up the House?
Hooey.
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Speaking of bozos, way to go bozo Republicans:
About two-thirds of the bill would pay for nutrition programs such as food stamps; about $40 billion is for farm subsidies; and additional $30 billion would go to farmers to idle their land and to other environmental programs.
Congressional Republicans overwhelmingly abandoned Bush in voting to pass the bill last week, overlooking its cost amid public concern about the weak economy and high gas and grocery prices. Supporters praised the spending on food stamps and emergency food aid.
Before the problem with the bill was discovered, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the legislation could make the situation worse for struggling families.
“Members are going to have to think about how they will explain these votes back in their districts at a time when prices are on the rise,” she said. “People are not going to want to see their taxes increase.”
Bush said the legislation needlessly would expand government. He cited one new program in the bill that would pay more to corn growers and others if agriculture revenue were to drop significantly in the next five years. This program, he said, could add billions of dollars to the cost of the bill.
He added that minor cutbacks to subsidies for wealthy farmers were not sufficient.
“At a time when net farm income is projected to increase by more than $28 billion in 1 year, the American taxpayer should not be forced to subsidize that group of farmers who have adjusted gross incomes of up to $1.5 million,” the president said in his veto message.
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12:38pm Eastern. Update from GOP leader Boehner’s office…
Attached is the text of the privileged resolution that House Republican Leader John Boehner just offered on the House floor right now.
Yesterday, Democratic leaders knowingly allowed the House to vote on an incorrect version of the legislation. Prior to yesterday’s vote, the Speaker and the Democratic Leadership were informed by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel and the Committee that the certified copy of the bill was erroneous and not an accurate or complete document. The Democratic Leadership deliberately chose to ignore this notification, and instead allowed the House to vote on an incorrect version of the bill. Democrats took this action over the clearly-expressed objections of House Republicans.
As a reminder, when similar constitutional questions were raised on the Deficit Reduction Act in 2006, then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi brought a privileged resolution to the floor (H.Res. 687). Portions of the text are as follows:
“Whereas although the Senate Enrolling Clerk had mistakenly changed critical numbers which had major financial significance… Leadership deliberately chose to ignore that notification and instead allowed the House to vote on an incorrect version of this legislation… Whereas the effect of these actions raises serious constitutional questions and jeopardizes the legal status of this legislation… Resolved, That the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct shall begin an immediate investigation into the abuse of power surrounding the inaccuracies in the process and enrollment…”
As a side note, I would note that in 2006 Democrats raised objections about two digits in the DRA. There are 8,332 words in Title III of the Farm Bill.
The resolution:
RESOLUTION
Raising a question of the privileges of the House.Whereas the Democratic Leadership has engaged in a continuing pattern of withholding accurate information vital for Members of the House of Representatives to have before voting on legislation;
Whereas the conference report on H.R. 2419, which was adopted by the House on May 14, 2008, and the Senate on May 15, 2008, contained title III, relating to trade,
which contained sections 3001 through 3301;Whereas the Speaker and the Clerk certified that the enrolled copy of H.R. 2419 transmitted to the President was a true and accurate reflection of the actions taken by the
House and Senate;Whereas the enrolled copy certified by the Speaker and the Clerk and presented to the President failed to include title III and sections 3001 through 3301 and was not an accurate or complete document;
Whereas the President vetoed and returned to the House said certified copy;
Whereas before laying the President’s message before the House, the Speaker and the Democratic Leadership were informed by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel and
the Committee on Agriculture that said certified copy was erroneous and not an accurate or complete document;Whereas on May 21, 2008, the Democratic Leadership deliberately chose to ignore that notification and instead allowed the House to vote on an incorrect version of this legislation;
Whereas a veto override requires 2/3 of the House to vote in the affirmative, and knowledge of this mistake may have influenced each Member’s decision and therefore changed
the outcome of this vote, which is why the Democratic Leadership chose not to pursue a correction of this legislation;Whereas the effect of these actions raises serious constitutional questions and jeopardizes the legal status of this legislation;
Whereas Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Hoyer knowingly scheduled and began consideration of the President’s veto of H.R. 2419, without regard to the serious
and obvious constitutional questions and detrimental implications to the sanctity of the House and its process;Whereas at the direction of the Republican Leader, senior staff contacted the Chief-of-Staff to the Speaker and the Floor Director for the Majority Leader, requesting that they immediately halt consideration of the veto message until the facts surrounding the errors could be sorted out and all Members could be notified;
Whereas the Democratic Leadership refused that request;
Whereas in the 109th Congress, the current Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, offered a privileged resolution, H.Res. 683, accusing the Republicans of concealment, incompetence, and corruption with respect to the enrollment error of the Deficit Reduction Act;
Whereas the Deficit Reduction Act was the subject of numerous lawsuits questioning its validity due to the enrollment error, including a lawsuit filed by several Democratic
Members;Whereas in a memorandum from the Clerk of the House to Speaker Nancy Pelosi entitled ‘‘Farm Bill Omission’’ and dated May 21, 2008, the Clerk stated ‘‘Enrolling Division
staff expressed concern in receiving direct calls from Leadership and the Committee to accelerate the enrolling process.’’; andWhereas the Democratic Leadership’s repeated efforts to thwart the normal legislative process by cutting corners, ignoring requirements of the Constitution and House
rules, and rushing through legislation with major errors, forces Members to vote on controversial legislation without thorough time for review and must be denounced:Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That—
(1) the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct shall begin an immediate investigation into the abuse of power surrounding the inaccuracies in the process and enrollment of H.R. 2419, Food and Energy Security Act of 2007, vetoed by the President on May 21, 2008; and,
(2) the Speaker, Majority Leader and other Members of the Democratic Leadership are hereby admonished for their roles in the events surrounding this enrollment error.
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Nan: “The dog ate my homework.”
The Democrat Socialists in Congress have achieved the worst Congressional approval in history. Proving incompetence can get you rewards.
Keystone cops comes to mind.
I wonder if they’d subsidize the pork bellies I want to buy futures in? Congress needs more pork.
This is the part that bothers me. They certainly are free with our money it seems. One can only hope that the president will stand by his veto once the rest of this pork makes it way to his desk and maybe some of our Rinos will grow a pair and regain some testicular fortitude in the meantime so we can defeat this illegal redistribution of funds. 30 billion here, 40 billion there and pretty soon that adds up to more than us common people make! Give me some of that and I promise to not grow anything on my desert land!
And I hereby promise to try not to use any more wordy sentences the rest of the day.
Yeah, like larger majorities in the House and Senate this November because the national Republican Party is indistinguishable from the Democrats.
ajmontana,
The dog didn’t eat Nancy’s homework. The paper was reduced to biofuel for her Government-paid-for Lear Jet. Unless she was allowed to upgrade to the Boeing 757 she was demanding.
Here is the answer to our problems! I have had about all I can take of goverment.
http://lonsberry.com/writings.cfm
Pelosi is an idiot. I didn’t know the White House was in the business of spot checking the House.
Learn to be contrite…it goes a long way.
509th bob,
Here’s the plane she deserves…
pelosi plane
I hate clowns.
Every time I hear the song “Send In The Clowns” I think of Congress …
Please stop making comparisons of the Pelosi crowd to Bozo. It’s highly insulting to hard working clowns everywhere.
She is in the wrong house. She should be in her home fetching slippers for her hubby. NAW, she would mess that up too.
:ducks:
It’s ironic that a Congressman who supports gun control as much as she does ends up shooting herself in both feet. If she had a third foot, I think she would have drilled it, too.
Oh . . . . those jacksasses make me nauseous.
At least bush is doing the right thing here. its about time.
Blame game. Could you see pulosi as obummers VEEP. That terrifies me precisely the way that monster clown terrifies my daughter. While i am personally aghast at most farm subsidies, we have 3 acres on the river and can appreciate taking some of the river corridor out of agricultural production. A forested canopy is a smart way to keep the river healthy. I feel that this should be done on the state level, bolstered by intelligent use of Federal funds.
Ctisa #7:
I’ve never heard of Bob Lonsberry until today. What a great article. Everyone should click on your link and read it! Does he want to run for POTUS? That’s exactly what I am looking for in my president.
She would take one of them and give it to maid, claiming “it’s for the children.” She would then put the other one on and then complain to you that you only gave her one shoe, and that you need to buy another one to replace the one she gave to the maid. She’d also make you buy another one for the maid, since it wouldn’t be “fair” or “sensitive” to make the poor maid walk around in one shoe.
I’d go barefoot before I let that broad touch my shoes.
You know, we should inversely tie Congressional salaries to the budget.
The higher the budget goes the lower Senate and House salaries go. Make it similar to the private sector, where if your company makes less, your bonus is less. On a $160k salary, make it $100k fixed and $60k variable on their ability to reduce spending.
Yea, I know, its too early in the morning to be smoking something…….
Senator Homer Simpson (I) Illinois says:
DOH!
Perhaps Republicans ought to be labeled an endangered species as well.
So I guess Bush should have done the work that the dems didn’t want to do. Couldn’t they hire some one under the table to do all that?
I can’t quit laughing… HAHAHAHAAAAHHAA. And to think it is possible that the REPUBS are losing even more seats to these A$$ Clowns. AHHAAAHAAA
Congress…the most inept, incompetent, worst lawyers in the world…charged with writing laws directed at every American.
I view congressional law makers in the same light with Jocelyn Elders as a Doctor. Neither one I trust doing ANYTHING for me…and probably rank dead last in competence in their fields.
Everything from now on will be “bushes fault” for the next 30 years at least. I can’t believe how unterly useless this congress has been. Take the oil price issue, all congress has done has been to hold hearings. Thats it. Great for sound bites but it does nothing real. Oh and block any drilling that might actualy do some good.
Hilarious!
They want to leave today for the long weekend with the bill passed. They better pass it at 11:59PM or Bush will veto it again.
What really worries me is the attitude of the REPUBLICANS in the House.
I don’t want a Democrat in the White House and a Democrat controlled Congress but the two Parties might as well merge.
It is time for someone new.
by the way…how much did this blunder cost tax payers?
you probably don’t want to know
Last time I checked was there not this growing food shortage going on; yet Congress wants to increase the subsides to stop farming?
truesoldier, of course, because the enviroment comes before people, duh.
The incompetent leadership by San Fran Nan continues. She continues to do one hell of a job of screwing up this country.
I’m still trying to figure out why food stamps are part of an Agricultural bill unless they are trying to guarantee a market for their production. Considering the growing worldwide food crisis along with the associated rioting taking places in the third world hell holes you think this industry would be able to sell just about everything they produce.
Yep! Most ethical Congress ever! If you screw up blame the President after all he is the evil genius causing all the problems in the world. Right Nan? Right?
A couple of weeks ago on a news forum, I read about a farmer in South Dakota who was spending 180 million to convert his farm to ethanol production. I grew up surrounded by farms, most of them are subdivisions now, but I never knew a farmer who had 180 million to spend. And we’re subsidizing that?
how many amendments did that thing have and how many committees and sub-committees did that go through that it got so fouled up?
should be a text book case as to why there should be no paper clip amendments to laws..
Boomer, just FYI, the food stamp program is administred by the Dept of Agriculture, so that is why it is covered under this bill.
There should have been a warning to put one’s drink down before reading. I have to clean my computer screen now LOL.
Michelle, you are so right! You cannot make this stuff up!
And this is why the democratic congress is the only political entity in the usa with a LOWER approval rating than the current president.
1/ Can do nothing more than hold worthless hearings DESPITE holding a majority.
2/ Blames everything on bush reguardless of wiether or not bush had anything to do with the issue at hand.
3/ Refuses to drill for new oil sources DISPITE an oil supply problem that is hurting the country.
4/ Can’t pass any bills without loading them up with pork.
5/ Refuses to expell democrats literaly caught with bundles of bribe cash.
And this is the part I REALLY don’t get,
6/ Will probably get more seats in november, DISPITE a horriable track record.
Someone please correct me, if I am wrong. But, hasn’t the latest cries included how the production of ethanol and such has cut into food supplies, etc.?
If that were the case, wouldn’t “idle” land make that worse?
there you go.. using reason to figure out how DC works..
hit your head with a ball peen hammer a few times, drink some lead paint, then teach public school along side LGM and THEN you might see reason in idling farm land in a food shortage..
barry f. There you go with that logic thing again.
Having a derelict congress gets exhausting. Are there no men (figuratively speaking) in Washington?
Solution:
Explore domestic supplies of oil
Drill domestic supplies of oil
Build new refineries for domestic supplies of oil
Nuke baby, nuke!
It’s supply and demand just like we all learned in economics 101.
I don’t see how Nancy Pelosi whining helps my children…
More importantly, is it helping Michelle Obama’s?
Suprise suprise, not a word about this on huffpo….
Thanks Branden I did not know that. You would think it would fall under Housing and Human Services instead. I learn something new everyday!
Maybe it was a corporate farm? Alot of the farm land is now owned by corporations, not individuals. And I’ll just add to that that I also grew up in farming communities and the farmerse I knew were doing very well for themselves, I don’t know if it was $180 Million worth but millions of dollars were in pocket books of many a farmer.
It is an honest mistake, Boomer. It may start at that on the federal level. But, by the time it reaches the state level for the government handouts to take place, it is done by Human Service. The Tennessee Department of Human Services handles that here.
Let me see, The President’s executive powers have been sliced to that of reviewing for clerical errors of San Fran Nan’s congress? He said he was going to veto the bill before it arrived, why would he review it ‘just to make sure’ there weren’t any clerical errors? OMG, can’t these people just own up to their incompetence instead of passing it off onto the President and/or his staff?
What a bumbling bunch of incompetent fools. God save our Great Land and our Great Country from this pack of morons.
I am still trying to figure out why our corporation has to pay the DOA $70 a year? What does a non-profit corporation that works in Haiti taking care of babies have to do with Agriculture? Just another tax. Now they are trying to increase taxes – again.
Why don’t they just cut to the chase and take all of our money and start distributing it equally? I need the raise.
cue the music
“all we are saying is give income redistrubition a chance”
end music (mercifully if I were singing)
ctisa, like rainbow, I had never heard of Bob Lonsberry before. He nails it on the suicide of the GOP. Knowing people like him are out there fighting the good fight gives me a glimmer of hope for the future, however small at this point.
How clowns like Pelosi and Reid can be taken seriously enough to rise to power is beyond me. Our country is being run into the ground by a confederacy of dunces. If they get control of all 3 branches, and it appears that they will, even with a McCain presidency, it may be too late to stop them. I fear America’s suicide, the America I know and love anyway, may follow the GOP’s.
Can anyone point me to the individual voting on this in the Senate? I’d like to know how the 2 Texas Senators voted.
thanks
Much too early in the morning to be seeing Pennywise the Clown.
“We all float down here. When you’re down here with us, you’ll float too!”
The only music I want to hear out of Washington is David Lee Roth singing ‘Happy Trails To You’ on Nancy’s and Harry’s exit.
We all need to vote 3rd party and give the 2 parties a real scare.
Anyone running a business like this would have been out of business long ago. They found this mistake when they went looking for the missing pork in the bill.
Delicious. Simply delicious!
Could you have possibly found a *creepier* looking clown to put up there??
YES there are creepier clowns.
Thats the symbol of this and probably the next congress. The creepy clown congress.
There is no shortage of republicans. There seems to be an excess number of Rinos. I think perhaps you meant Conservatives?
As I once stated here before … I am a fairly well educated hillbilly, patriotic, poor and extremely conservative. When I tried to declare minority status on my Census forms, they tried to make me an endangered species … for a hefty price of course.
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Errah, on #7 errah Bob Lonsberry . . . short concise and on the mark. thanks for the link errah. Please forward URL to the RNC errah.
These guys make Hogan’s goat look squared away.
The circus that is our House of Representatives is hardly the greatest show on earth. Can We the People have a do-over??
While I think the “food stamp” program is a worthy program, it is totally mismanaged. Here is an example. My brother who is on disability gets $1,100 a month social security to pay ALL his bills.
Rent,gas,electric,fuel you name it. Social services deemed him to “rich” to recieve no more then $40 a month in food stamps. And now in there infinite wisdom as gas and food prices soar they cut him down to $20!! If he didnt have me to help out I fear he would just do without. This is while professional system workers sell there $150 a month allotment for cash. Sorry to rant but it just makes me mad.
Dude, it ain’t a circus. Circuses are fun! This congress is a HORROR show!
For the House of Reps. everyone is up for reelection, so we CAN have a do-over. Just gotta convince everyone to vote ‘em all out. A nearly impossible task with so many zombies brainwashed to keep reelecting these jerks – especially the ones with “D” after their names.
“an additional $30 billion would go to farmers to idle their land.”
It would have been cheaper to pay each member of congress $1M each to remain idle and not pass any of the bills that have been passed this year.
DON’T RE-ELECT ANYBODY!!!!!
we could just each do a write in to elect ourselves…*chuckle*
My vote would go to Ted Nugent or MM, though if we could get them both on the ticket …
Bush actually said that this?”
“The legislation needlessly would expand government.” Wow, it only took 7 1/2 years for him to figure that one out. Well, it sure isn’t right if he and the reflublicans didn’t do it.
I am grateful for these things though.
Better late than never.
We’re fuqqed.
The tipping point has come and gone. More Americans rely on government to feed them, clothe them, and wipe their azzes than the rest of us.
Liberals do not care how it is ruining the country. They have a nice retirement kitty.
Republicans are simply not conservatives.
The more a Republican gives in to a Dem, the more left the Dems move.
Your figure isn’t high enough to even get their attention, madchef. They probably get more kickbacks than that in a quarter, let alone the year.
Maybe we should start some serious research on time travel, perfect it, and send somebody back to kill the first politician.
I’ve never liked clowns, hated them and was afraid of them as a kid. Who knew how prescient I was?……lol
# 69
we could just each do a write in to elect ourselves…*chuckle*
NOT BAD IDEA!!!!!
On May 22nd, 2008 at 10:33 am, Teddy Kennedy said:
Errah, on #7 errah Bob Lonsberry . . . short concise and on the mark. thanks for the link errah. Please forward URL to the RNC errah.
Sorry to hear about your health problem Teddy…
hope this doesn’t mean…
“The end of an errah…”
(just funnin’)
Can anyone here honestly claim that this current legislative lineup in DC is sustainable?
just saying, imagine the legislature if it was a grouping of MM posters…..
we might actually get some work done lol
Talk about real global warming.
Move congress to North Dakota and have
it meet Dec – March only. The folks there may appreciate the hot air congress would bring that time of year.
In a perfect world, no one would be allowed to be reelected and make a career of being a politian. Give ‘em one term and then go back home to the private sector and real work and let someone else serve.
What happens in this country that is not the Bush administrations fault?!
These career politicians need to done away with.
I’ve always been afraid of clowns, and then I read, “It” (Steven King, before he hated America, probably), and am scared poopiless by clowns. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, this story comes along.
*Shudder*
You’ll find me in bed, hiding under the covers.
Two years of “Dem leadership” and now this.. lolol
Incompetence on display or what?
Do they even read the crap they vote on?
This whole concept of a farm bill is a sham. Here in eastern Washington we have ALOT of idle land it seems. So much so that farm families are selling to developers for big tracts of huge homes for yuppies moving up from Caliphony. They keep building in prime farm land, what are we gonna eat ? Polar bears ? This is becoming some sort of corporate welfare, isn’t it ?
#67 Madchef…….. A wise decision my friend.
Term Limits.
The GOP is too stupid to realize that idiotic spending likw this is why the got voted OUT!
What the hell is wrong with these people?
I remember well Pelosi’s boast upon becoming House Speaker that, “The gavel is now in the hands of the children!”
No lie.
It was said before the 2006 election that the Republican Congressional majority would be self-terminating, but for the fact that their opponents were democrats.
Today, the revised — and more accurate — version of that statement is, the democrat congressional majority would be self-terminating but for the fact that their opponents are Republicans.
Bush may be wrong about a lot of things, but not everything. Unfortunately, the “lesson” internalized by most Congressional Republicans has been to run away from the president no matter what the merits of the issue are.
In this case, Bush has the right conservative principle in mind by opposing the farm bill. But rather than join Bush in being right, Congressional Republicans instead run away from him in the false hope that doing so will “save” them in November.
All they accomplish is:
1. To give the democrats what they want with little or no fight;
2. To confirm in the minds of conservatives that they really are just a bunch of spineless, supine, unprincipled opportunists concerned solely with re-election; and
3. To commit political suicide by alienating the very conservatives they need to get re-elected.
Watching the Republicans in Congress not only fumble away golden opportunities handed to them by a stupendously incompetent democrat leadership, but also run willy-nilly to electoral disaster is like watching a horror “B” movie: the feckless teenagers bicker with each other before splitting up to be offed one by one, and generate no sympathy at all; the audience reaction is usually, “Well, you deserved it for being so stupid, you effing moron!”
Ever find yourself saying just that about the Republican party leaders this year…?
How does she know the White House didn’t catch it? Bush has no responsibility, nor incentive, to protect this Congress from its own screw-ups.
When Congress gets their act together and sends the right paperwork to Bush, he should just sit on the bill for the maximum period allowed while publicizing the most egregious aspects of it. Maybe he could generate enough negative publicity to cause enough Republicans to reconsider their vote that his veto would be sustained.
When (if) history is written in the future those who presided over the destruction of America will need a whole new section. Their names will be the counter category of Washington Lincoln Roosevelt and others. Our economy has been given to China, our energy dependence to the Saudis our jobs to Latin Americans. We send kids off to the university with their cars, cell phones and computers and what do they learn, how to vote for a candidate that will see to it that they don’t have them anymore. Do these idiots think that they still have these things and the freedom to use them in twenty years? I don’t I’ve been watching for all this time and that’s the future for these so called educated numbskulls.
My gosh how this country has regressed it’s a pitiful shadow of its former self and will only get worse as liberalism drags us even further down. Hundreds of years building it up and a few decades tearing it down we traded it all so that homos could freely engage in unsafe sex so little girls could get pregnant before they are 10 and a failed reach out program to those who would rather wield machete’s against us. Don’t worry vote for Obama and you too can see your country go the way of South Africa. I don’t know about you all but my vision for America is Chicago we need more of it not less doncha know. How far down are Americans willing to go, evidently all the way down they are not bright enough to grasp what is happening. Thanks a million, Mr and Mrs. Establishment. From the oft mentioned greatest generation to what we have today and all in a half a century no less.
I HATE CLOWNS! Couldn’t you pick a better picture than pennywise?
OK, $70 Billion for farm subsidies and to idle land during a huge run-up in prices for wheat, corn and rice – all Bush’s fault of course. What, you don’t eat rice? You’re not making ethanol from rice? Huh, maybe other forces are at work – no, it’s all Bush’s fault.
So when prices double, normally as Capitalists we would think that’s an incentive to plant, oh wait, we’re not Capitalists anymore, we await our new Marxist leader…where’s my copy of Das Kapital? We need the Government to be involved. When does this year’s “Five-Year Plan” come out? Will it be in Russian or Spanish? Are left shoes this year or next…
Imagine being Cheney in the Senate:
“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am stuck…”
Surely you jest, AG?
Sorry. I couldn’t help myself.