Well we all know now that the Deficit has plunged to its lowest level since the great Bankers Get-a-Way of 2008, a fraction of the GDP compared to 2009.
So there’s only one thing to do.

Last March, I wrote a post about the two-pronged assault on Food Stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program(SNAP). Now the legislation doing just that is being shaped in Congress. The bad news is, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Debbie Stabenow, only wants to cut SNAP benefits by 0.5%. The worse news is that Republicans want to cut it a LOT more. That great Libertarian hero, Rand Paul, wants to cut the program by $45 Billion a year until $322 billion in “savings” is achieved.

Since most of the right wing (and a certain leftyish blog, ahem) spent the day chasing their conspiracy tales because former Daily Caller editor David “Whore Chat” Martosko’s created a bullshit story about a purloined Saudi letter (Must Credit Guy Who Makes Shit Up!) nobody got around to making Pigford Mud Pies, and that makes the Dead Baby Breitbart cry.

How long can Cory maintain his public persona with all these dirty deeds piling up? And if he is so interested in higher office shouldn’t he be avoiding irritating the people he would need? There has already been talk of Booker taking on Governor Christie in 2013. Two words: Ha. Ha.

Today is the last day of the legislative session before Election Day. Lawmakers will go home to campaign on September 21, which is the earliest date during an election cycle in decades. And they leave a lot of pending legislation on the table. As John Boehner announced in the above clip, the House plans to adjourn without dealing with the farm bill. A bipartisan farm bill has already passed the Senate, and the House Agriculture Committee cleared their version months ago. But Boehner has been unable to line up support on the floor for it, out of an insistence that most of his caucus support it.

A variety of links to articles/interviews/speeches on current issues that may be of interest.

The Senate already passed a farm bill that cut food stamps by around $4.5 billion. The House’s version is even more punitive, and House Democrats are upset that their leader on the Agriculture Committee let it go through without putting up much of a fight.

This fight on food stamps is happening in parallel with a fight among conservative states on Medicaid should not be seen as an anomaly.

Food stamp cuts came in two bills in 2010. One was in the state fiscal aid bill, which cut SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) funding by $11.7 billion. Then there was the child nutrition bill, and another $2.2 billion in cuts. So that literally expanded the school lunch program by paying for it with a low-income family’s dinner

Hundreds of thousands of food stamp recipients will lose at least $90 a month in benefits, after an amendment to the farm bill failed badly in the Senate.