Another great reason never to watch Morning Joe, Soledad O'Brien on CNN. Think Progress has an excellent post about today's show in which she criticized Senator Jeff Session (R. Ala.) for trying to balance the budget by taking food from poor children.

Sessions proposed an amendment to the Farm Bill earlier this year that would have removed $11 billion from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over 10 years, but it fortunately failed. Yes, this pig literally wanted to take food out the mouths of hungry children, and, of course, he opposes allowing the Bush tax cuts to end on the wealthy.



O’BRIEN: You voted in fact in 2002 and 2008 to grow the program yourself. I think first under President Bush in 2002, and when it comes to fraud, this Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said SNAP has ‘the most rigorous quality control systems of any public benefit program in recent years, it’s received its lowest error rates on record.’ … Most people who are on it aren’t working the system, they are just hungry people. [...] When you’re thinking of things to cut, people basically say, why are you trying to balance the budget on people making less than $23,000 a year, I think that range roughly, is the national average of a family on food stamps. So why not cut something else? There are other things that could be on the table before you pick a program that is feeding the nation’s poor children. SESSIONS: I’m not picking a program. I say all programs need to be examined in this government. This government wasting money every day. There is no doubt about that. We have got to do better. And food stamps is a program that was totally exempt from any oversight and change when it has gone up four times in the last ten years in the amount we spend … O’BRIEN: Two of those times you voted for it, sir. 2002 and 2008 you voted for it. Some people are saying, it’s growing because people are hurting. SESSIONS: I voted for the ag bill that had that in it, probably so.



Part of the war on the poor from the Alabama asshole. Starving children while the rich party. That's Alabama white politics.

You better hope the atheists are right, Senator Sessions, because otherwise you are going to hate Judgment Day.

I am so sick of these pigs. Dante had a special place in the circles of hell for people like Sessions.

Taking food from hungry children. What doesn't he understand about the precepts of the religion he professes?

The questions you'll never hear on Face the Nation or Meet the Press. Soledad is asking them.