Make no mistake about it: Despite what Elise Stefanik — our so-called moderate Republican Member of Congress — claims, the failure of the farm bill was not our fault. Not even close.
"Congresswoman Stefanik is disappointed that Democrats and the Freedom Caucus joined together to defeat the Farm Bill," her spokesperson said, trying to put lipstick on a pig.
It's a pig because the Republicans, autocrats at heart that they are, never had any intention on relying for Democratic votes for anything. Remember the Hastert Rule? It's a GOP invention to prevent the minority party from amending legislation by insuring that bills should only come to the floor with support from a "majority of the majority." (Of course, you'd think that now they'd change its name, seeing as Dennis Hastert turned out to be a child molester.)
In other words, we Democrats had no power to determine the fate of the farm bill. If the ever-loathsome Paul Ryan was any good at his job, the Republicans would have gotten the teabaggers in line and America would have a farm bill.
Oh, well! Ryan is an overrated idiot who can't deliver, which means that Stefanik has egg on her face and her dairy farmer constituents in upstate New York are screwed. Will they take revenge in November? We cats would drink a milk shake to that. And we PURR
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