Nelson (D-NE) criticizes Boehner over failure to bring farm bill to vote

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Joseph Morton

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., stepped up his farm bill criticism of House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday, saying the Ohio Republican has a responsibility to bring the legislation to the floor soon to provide help for states afflicted by drought and wildfires.

“He represents one district, about 500,000 people in Ohio, and he's holding the rest of this country hostage right now who are experiencing the drought and the fires,” Nelson said of Boehner. “It's wrong.”

Nelson said the Senate version of the farm bill includes various drought-related measures, including direct and guaranteed recovery loans for those affected by wildfires or drought and assistance with livestock if the fires prevent grazing on publicly managed lands.

“The House needs to stop playing political games while our state is burning,” Nelson said during his weekly conference call with reporters.

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[leftyohiolib]

1. mr cornhusker kickback is mad about someone playing political games?

[Scuba]

2. Nelson better be careful. He better not offend his party.

[surrealAmerican]

3. He should know better than ...

... to use "Boehner" and "responsibility" in the same sentence.

[Berlum]

4. The Repubbies don't want their Slash & Burn of food stamps to become electoral focus

The Republican plan to eviscerate SNAP by billions is in the Farm Bill they are sitting on...

This time, in keeping with their Greazy Greed Ethos, the Republicans want to hide their STUPENOUSLY STUPID STARVATION SCHEME in the realm of the occult until after the election.

The Huge Chunks of food stamps the 1% Fatcat-Corporate-KissAss Republicons want to trash, will be happening in the context of the Greatest Natural Disaster ever to befall America. The page 1 story on the New York Times.

Severe Drought Seen as Driving Cost of Food Up

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/business/food-prices-to-rise-in-wake-of-severe-drought.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120726

Since Republicans also are lying about and thus encouraging global climate change -- and this year's consequent natural disasters -- with their Deadly Dance of Denial, we can lay the 2012 American Dustbowl & Starvation Scheme directly at their feet. Own it all Republicans. You brought it on.

[madrchsod]

5. farmers should start calling their republican reps...

and ask them why they are`t getting any help.

[Berlum]

8. Good idea

[Ganja Ninja]

6. Maybe you should remind Boehner of how many times you've crossed party lines to help him out Ben.

Hows that knife in the back feel?

[daybranch]

7. Maybe this is opportunity

Today some of our richest billionaires are polluting the skies, the ground and our water. It looks like right now there is one portion of the population that is suffering most from that, As unwillingness of republican leaders to fight global warming has grown in order support their 1 percent masters, global warming is becoming more and more severe and nowhere is this felt more than the farmers.
While farmers and ranchers have been some of the most ardent republicans they now are facing the results of the policiies and the results are particularly devastating to farmers and ranchers. The question is will republicans be able to lull them to continued inaction regarding global warming with incomplete references to biblical subjects or will farmers and ranchers wake up to being good Christikan stewards of the earth they so directly depend on.
While I take no glee in the misfortune of good men in women in our agricultural and ranching businesses, I hope that we can make this year a teaching moment and enlist them in this struggle to save our earth as we know it. Today is the time to point Global warming out to your neighbors and tell them that we can reduce and must reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Let us extend the aid our brothers need so badly now but welcome them into working with us against the corrupting influences of our profiting polluters(PP) pronounced Pee Pee. Interesting that this is something else we should normally expell.
But the point is to push Ben as he asks those republicans he stood with during the health care debate bto make the case why the problem is occurring. He can at least do this as he ends his career. In some small way, he camnn leave a better legacy. And now is the time not to be gloating but to realize the harm our brother rancers and farmers are suffering, lend them a hand , teach them, and convert them to stewards of the earth.Let us show them what good Christians and non-Christians of good will really are.

[bulloney]

9. I live in the middle of a heavily Republican section of the farm belt (is there any other kind?).

And ALL of them think the talk on climate change is just a big liberal scam. These are the same people who claim they don't need any government programs, even though they're among the largest recipients of farm program dollars in the county, according to a website from the Environmental Working Group. If the truth be known, they likely benefit from other taxpayer-funded programs outside of agriculture, too.

They don't make the connection between climate change and pollution from billionaire-owned companies. The farmers think they should band together with the Koch Bros. and the like because they, like the Kochs, are businessmen.

They vote for Republicans who aggravate our dependency on foreign oil, then, in the next sentence will complain when their hallowed ethanol subsidy is in jeopardy in Congress (usually because some Republican wants it eliminated). They get breaks on things like sales and real estate taxes, then complain about the poor receiving food stamps.

They complain about illegal immigrants, even though their Republican bretheren who own the meat processing and other processing plants of agriculutral products are the among biggest abusers of illegal immigrant labor.

They bitch about farm programs, but gladly pay their annual dues to the Farm Bureau, which lobbies for farm programs that increase farmers' dependency on government programs despite their "get the government out of agriculture" rhetoric.

It's truly amazing.

[StateApparatus]

10. Nothing new here folks...

The Republicans will make any sacrifice (the people's sacrifice, that is) to prevent any legislation from passing during the Obama administration. I wonder if the citizens of Nebraska will remember this come election time? Probably notOBAMA WANTS TO TAKE AWAY YOUR GUNS!!!