Apparently the Senate
Democrats wanted total partisan warfare and now they've got it. They
will live to rue this day and that will probably happen sooner than they
think. The Republicans do not have to wait and hope for a future Senate
majority in order to make retribution for what happened today, although
that will surely come as well at some point.
There are plenty of tools available to the Republicans to grind
Senate business to a halt notwithstanding the invoking of the nuclear
option by the Democrats. If you thought things were bad in Washington
before "you ain't seen nothin' yet."
The Democrats violated a time honored Senate tradition today. So now
the Republicans have the chance to violate another tradition. For some
time now when the national unemployment rate passed 7% it was pretty
much automatic that extended unemployment benefits would be passed into
law. But not this time. The Democrats violated one tradition and now the
Republicans can violate another. There will be no extended benefits
this time. Let a core constituency of the Democrats suffer the
consequences of partisan tit for tat in Washington.
God forbid. We have to do anything and everything legal in order to stop this bitch. By the way, I love the green teeth. LOL.
Cuts in SNAP benefits kicked
in yesterday and of course a lot of liberals are screaming bloody murder
about it. But wait. Those really were not "cuts." It is a return to
regular benefit levels which were in effect prior to the recession of
2008. In 2009 Congress passed the so-called American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act which included a TEMPORARY boost in SNAP benefits to
account for increased unemployment which resulted from the recession.
Those increases were always intended to be temporary and were never
intended to be permanent.
So now in accordance with that law benefits have returned to their
previous levels. Plus SNAP benefits receive yearly COLA adjustments so
on January 1st benefits will be increased again to account for
inflation.
Therefore his is not a cut. So what is all of the complaining about? As I
said the increase in benefits voted into law in 2009 was always intended
to be temporary. It was a part of economic stimulus measures which were
intended to jump start the economy after the recession. But such
stimulus measures by definition are meant to be temporary, not
permanent.
This outcry coming from the left is as usual much ado about
nothing. But from reading accounts in most media outlets you hardly know
that. Most news accounts fail to mention that the increases established
in 2009 were always meant to be temporary. As usual the media is on the
liberal bandwagon and to hell with the truth.
