House GOP Gives Its Base a Lap Dance

[ProSense]

House GOP Gives Its Base a Lap Dance

By Ed Kilgore

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And now, today, House Republicans are staging a vote to stop people receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families dollars at strip clubs, casinos and liquor stores.

Nice.

The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Charles Boustany Jr. (R-LA) claims to be responding to widespread reports of TANF money going to various dens of the devil....The whole kerfuffle is highly remiscent of the habit the saintly Ronald Reagan used to indulge of regaling conservative audiences with an apocryphal anecdote about a food stamp recipient getting change in a grocery store line and buying a bottle of vodka.

As CAP Action Fund’s Melissa Boteach noted in her commentary on the Boustany measure, if the U.S. House has time to worry about richly symbolic instances of taxpayers subsidizing bad behavior, there are better targets:

If program integrity were the goal, then conservatives would also be calling for votes forbidding corporations that receive taxpayer subsidies and bailouts from having big conferences in Las Vegas, where there is no shortage of casinos, strip clubs, and liquor stores.

What’s really going on is that House Republicans are treating their base voters to the rhetorical equivalent of a lap dance at taxpayer expense.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_02/house_gop_gives_its_base_a_lap035139.php

So this is what Boehner meant when he said Republicans need to "get back to what we know works"
http://election.democraticunderground.com/1002247121

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. "lap dance"

Ha! I love it!

[ProSense]

2. LOL!

Republicans are clowns.