Please read this and take it seriously! The reason why we have to fight the right wing Republicans on every issue is that they are always using EXTREME HYPERBOLE against us in the PUBLIC ENVIRONMENT. On the other hand when the Republicans do their S**t we DO NOT RESPOND in measure! Roll up your sleeves and join me on the other side of the orange squiggle for the details and plan of attack...
Now we have a sweet chance to tuck it to the Republicans BIG TIME over Thursday’s (7/11/2013) vote in the House of Representatives which split the traditional Farm Bill into two Bills, i.e. the Farm Bill and a so-called Nutrition Bill. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has been a part of the Farm Bill since 1973, and is an important component of a stable political alliance between urban nutritional interests and the outlying rural areas which depend heavily on farm subsidies. Every liberal/progressive/Democratic outlet to the American public should HEADLINE the following simple message: THE REPUBLICANS KILL FOOD STAMPS! Nothing complicated should follow this headline except to say that the "recent vote in the Republican controlled House of Representatives completely defunded the Food Stamp Program SNAP by not allocating one thin DIME to feed dependent Americans (elderly, children and the poor) in customary appropriations. Just to re-emphasize the purpose of this post – we have a unique opportunity at this time to hang the Republicans on their own very recent petard if WE ACT expeditiously upon the matter.
If we all do this together inscribing this message on everything that can be read by the general public via the Internet - it will effectively force the Main Stream Media (MSM) to cover this story in depth. Otherwise the MSM will provide little attention to the significance of this recent vote in the House, and if they do happen to mention it they will simply say that CONGRESS refused to fund the SNAP program. Typically such reporting by the MSM obscures the fact that the defunding was done exclusively by the REPUBLICANS, and instead blames a generic generalized "CONGRESS" (which in its scope includes the Senate and all Democrats) for this reprehensible deed.
We have an opportunity here to nail the REPUBLICANS to the wall, so let's do it! I expect some folks here will say "wait a minute, not all Republicans are in favor of what these House Tea Party Republicans did to SNAP". I say too bad! This is political warfare, and if we "snooze" on this we will "Lose" on many other upcoming issues in the immediate future. If we keep the Republicans busy putting out fires they will have less time to dream up ways to keep making all of our lives miserable. In other words "a good defense is a good offense".
I am well aware that the House Republicans stripped Food Stamps and other public assistance programs out of the Farm Bill before voting to pass the stripped down version. Supposedly their announced intent is to vote on SNAP and other such programs under a separate bill to be introduced at some unspecified time in the future. I am also aware that President Obama said that he would veto the stripped down Farm Bill so there is little chance that the House Passed Bill will become law. But that is neither here nor there. The House Republicans committed themselves to killing the Food Stamp program and WE NEED to make every living breathing participant dependent on these programs to be WIDE AWAKE AWARE that it is the REPUBLICANS whose intent is to TAKE food out of their mouths and the mouths of their family and loved ones!
So what do you say? Let's get those headlines posted and published. Put it up on your Facebook Walls, tweet about it! The more noise we make with these headlines the more pressure we will put on the MSM to cover the story. One more time so you don't forget: THE REPUBLICANS KILL FOOD STAMPS!