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Guess who the "food stamp presidents" really are!
Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) took to the House Floor today armed with the facts to explain how Newt got it wrong.
1ProudAtheist
(346 posts)Those pesky little facts getting in the way of another Republiclown lie.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Yeah dawg.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)boppers
(16,588 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)Luis Gutierrez is teh awesome.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Matariki
(18,775 posts)What Gingrich is up to has nothing to do with facts and everything to do with using language to plant memes and leverage the racism within large segments of the Republican base.
But given that he lives in the past, I'm sure the fact that it's mostly backfiring on him and is absurdly transparent to most people, must be pretty confusing to him.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)in other words he cares about the issue, it's not just a political football
http://articles.philly.com/2002-01-10/news/25344729_1_food-stamp-program-food-stamps-legal-immigrants
Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D., Ill.), who has fought to restore the food-stamp benefit to immigrants since 1996, said in a statement that Bush was acting "not only compassionately, but wisely and logically."