Just read this on my twitter feed:
@joshtpm Josh Marshall
Seems some House GOPers r saying they could be persuaded to switch to yes if Pell grants cuts were deeper. #standingforprinciples
The GOP is so evil and cruel. To have 900 billion is not enough but let's cuts the legs out from under students who want an education! They want to crush the middle class and poor. Like grinches, delighting in how much pain they can afflict on those who need a hand up.
I would not have made it through undergrad without Pell grants. This enabled me to go to a great school and not graduate with tons of debt. I was the first in my family to graduate from college, would I have seen this as possible if I faced mounds of student loans? maybe not.
The republicans want to divest from our future. To keep wealth and opportunity for the fortunate and not for the rest. I use to marvel at friends who are republicans but I'm beginning to become disgusted. How can you stand with this party?
To those who compare President Obama to republicans, shame. Maybe it's stockholm's syndrome or the fact that 50% of this country thinks there is sane alternative to Democrats even after Palin, Bachmann, Inhofe, Bush. But the Senate and our President is the only thing standing in the way of the GOPs desire to gut all government program, not dissect but GUT!
Had to rant...