NYT: The House Republicans' Ghoulish Defunding Rally

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September 20, 2013, 1:56 pm
The House Republicans’ Ghoulish Defunding Rally
By DAVID FIRESTONE


Jim Lo Scalzo/European Pressphoto Agency
John Boehner spoke at a Republican rally in Washington on Sept. 20, 2013.

There was something ghoulish about the rally that House Republicans held today in the Rayburn Room after they voted to defund health care reform. The party atmosphere was so boisterous, the cheers and laughter so loud, that it was easy to forget everyone in the room had just voted to keep tens of millions of people from getting health insurance.

By keeping spending at its current levels through mid-December, they had also voted to continue the sequester, which is preventing millions of people from getting public housing subsidies, Head Start seats, and unemployment benefits. The sequester is also taking a serious toll on scientific research and investment in infrastructure, not to mention its infuriating drag on employment and the economic recovery. How about another round of applause?

This shouldn’t come as a surprise, of course, from a House that had voted the previous day to cut food stamps for 3.8 million low-income people, including many very young and very old recipients. But at least they didn’t have a party to celebrate that vote.

Today, though, everyone was in a great mood.

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[polichick]

1. All I can say is the folks who vote for these ghouls are dumbshits.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. +1,000,000!

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[flpoljunkie]

4. That's what the Koch brothers and their ilk count on!

[blkmusclmachine]

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