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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Your position that the Farm bill is the only way...is basically wrong before you complete the sentence. I think you know it is wrong, but your try to defend it anyway.
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ace...I said it was a bad bill, but the best possible under the circumstances, with cuts in crop subsidies and new eligibility restrictions on the wealthiest recipients of those subsidies.
If you can point to any evidence that would suggest that Republicans would support a free-standing bill for food stamps and nutrition programs at a sufficient funding level and in sufficient numbers to prevent a minority of Republicans from blocking it in the Senate...then I will concede that there was a better way to get this critical funding before the current bill expires.
Past voting patterns on related children and family programs or social safety net programs do not support your supposition...ratings of voting records of Republicans by children/family advocacy organizations do not support your supposition...comments by some Republicans during the farm bill debate do not support your supposition ...and simple vote counting doesnt support your supposition.
ace...show me anything to back up your claim that Republicans would vote for a free-standing bill. (I know of one issue where Republicans came around on a good, somewhat related bill...but then Bush fucked it up with a signing statement that messed with the intent of Congress...but I wont tell you what it is...do your own homework before making such a claim! )
hell...if you can identify that one bill, I will concede ... even with all the other circumstantial evidence I cited against your position.
