Posted on 06/20/2013 11:24:27 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Edited on 06/20/2013 11:53:29 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
In a defeat for Republican leadership, the House on Thursday rejected a sweeping farm bill, amid opposition from both sides of the aisle.
More than 60 House Republicans defected and voted against the half-trillion-dollar bill, which sets funding for farm subsidies and other assistance as well as food stamps.
The vote was 234-195 against the bill.
Fox News is calling it “a defeat for Republican leadership.” If Republican leadership are in support of it, does that mean that it was rejected because it didn’t have enough food stamps and farm subsidies?
But the bill itself contained 80 percent food stamps?
Was that not enough for Dear Leader?
thanks
Thank that SOB, LBJ, for the scheme of putting food stamps in the USDA budget. He knew he could hide it there....only now it’s 80% and going up exponentially during the Obama reign. It is impossible to hide the fact that the flea has gotten bigger than the dog.
What an evil SOB.
Obama said he would veto it...it cut the food stamp program
You do realize when the bill is finalized, it will be even more bloated? Let's wait and see what comes next. I think it was defeated because the RINOs didn't get the pork they wanted.... Pessmistic? No, cold hard reality.
Pretty sad that this wasn’t enough for Obummer.
It was way to frickin much.. 80 percent food stamps wasn’t enough for the SOB in chief?
Not sure the 60 GOP no votes were cast because it didn't spend enough, but maybe because it spent too much. Some of the people who voted "no" were conservatives like Ryan, Rohrbacher, Gowdy, Goodlatte.
They have to pass a bill in the House to have something to reconcile first.
Apparently there is another bill up for a vote later in the week. It spends less. If the GOP can pass it, it appears reconciliation takes place.
I perhaps best not do that. I utilize yellow dent corn for cleaning the interior body pipelines when eating.
Defeat of this farm bill means spending arrangements will revert to a previous bill, which is probably worse. Much as I like to see Boehner get punched in the face, this is probably not a good thing.
Hopefully, he will learn his lesson here, but I doubt it.
Just looking at the vote- without knowing the content of the bill- it was a ‘reasonable’ Republican bill.
Now we’ll see if Boehner forces some RINOs to go along with a more conservative bill- good for America and for the Party, or allows them to force a more generous one.
Fun, fun, fun!
Oh, and then there’ll be the vote on the very much more generous bill that will come from conference LOL!
Amazing process: amazing that anything good, except entertainment, ever comes out of it!
See post #69. Conservatives voted against it.
oops ... okay I understand.
Good for the House
Unfortunately these Farm Bills pass because the Big Ag (Monsanto, ConAgra, and others) get billions from these Farm Bills....and enough Liberal GOP get sucked into the Big Ag bribes.
These Farm Bills are demonstrative that Free Trade does not work....Big Ag is subsidized because every large nation subsidizes Ag....if you tariff foreign Ag products....you do not have to tax Americans to pay the Big Ag subsidies....nor the Food Stamp program
On a thread last nite there were the Monsanto cheerleaders polishing the nob of Monsanto. I see they are not here now....now that Monsanto can’t cash their welfare check
A sign in the right direction
Reelection year...
They will just keep hanging more and more pork on it until it passes.
Reelection NEXT year...
He will never learn his lesson.
Back to his office where he can listen to the millions of voicemails of angry Americans about immigration lol.
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