Munchausen-by-Politician

This is how hypocritical the Republican house members are....and how transparent it is that they don't really care about funding "necessary" agencies - they're only interested in crying crocodile tears and blaming everyone but themselves in order to appease their critics. Last week they tried riding in on the White House Horse of Salvation, all set to play hero and rescue the "vital programs" that they just couldn't imagine forcing their constituents to live without. Once they got done with the photo-ops and the public tear-shedding and hand-wringing they slunk back home and tried writing and passing a handful of emergency continuing resolutions designed to save every previously-house-gutted program that they now suddenly deemed critical to life, limb and liberty.

Other recently passed House bills would refund the municipal government of Washington, D.C., FEMA, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). The bills expected to be considered over the next few days include legislation refunding the FDA, the National Weather Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Never mind that this would be the same FDA that they cut the budget on in 2011 -saying they weren't necessary. Arguing that the U.S. food supply is 99 percent safe, House Republicans cut millions of dollars Thursday from the Food and Drug Administration’s budget, denying the agency money to implement landmark food safety laws approved by the last Congress.

Saying the cuts were needed to lower the national deficit, the House also reduced funding to the Agriculture Department’s food safety inspection service, which oversees meat, poultry and some egg products. And lawmakers chopped $832 million from an emergency feeding program for poor mothers, infants and children. Hunger groups said that change would deny emergency nutrition to about 325,000 mothers and children.

And the same WIC program that they worked to cut by 10% in 2011.

This spike in demand at Maryhouse and other social service programs across the country comes as House Republicans want to cut WIC by 10% as part of the 2011 federal budget plan passed last week, despite objections from Democrats and WIC advocates.

And that, in a nutshell, is how the Republican House works....they cut your budgets, they slash your funds, they declare you unnecessary and overfunded, they shut you down completely - and then, when people realize how badly those programs are needed, how many people depend on them and how necessary they are - the Republicans cry huge crocodile tears on television, try to pass piecemeal bills refunding the very agencies whose budgets they've slashed and burned and try to blame the Democrats for the paralysis that they, themselves, have worked years to caused.