Republicans add to child hunger, and Limbaugh laughs

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Republicans add to child hunger, and Limbaugh laughs
by Laurence Lewis

Wed Jun 30, 2010 at 06:30:03 AM PDT



With the entire world still mired in a deep recession, the Republicans seem to want the families of homeless veterans to remain homeless. With the entire world still mired in a deep recession, the Republicans have successfully filibustered jobless benefits and state aid. And in case you were wondering if they've lost their basic sense of humanity, conservatives also seem to be coalescing into a coalition for malnourished children. If that sounds a bit harsh, then you missed Rush Limbaugh's latest effort at lowering his own bar. Because not only was he ranting against the government's school lunch program, he was actually joking about child hunger. As quoted by Media Matters:



Are you laughing? With 16,000,000 children facing a summer of hunger, he joked that it might be good for them to lose weight. But it got worse:



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To Limbaugh, hunger is funny. Hungry children are funny. Which means he must really be laughing about all those Republican efforts to punish those in need, including the families of veterans. Congressional Republicans are doing a great job of kicking people when they're down and suffering, and to Limbaugh it's all just one big joke. Particularly if those that are down and suffering are children.

If you think hunger is funny, support the Republicans. If you think child hunger is funny, support the Republicans. Because the Republicans will ensure that there's a lot more of both.

and that Liberals are too uptight to get it?

The way, I suppose, that the Dead Kennedys sang "Kill the Poor", but from a different political perspective.

Regardless, Rush listeners are thereby insulated from any ideas that would make them question their provider of smug satisfaction.

I am a school administrator (have been in education for 27 years) and can't find humor in what Rush is saying at all (as if I ever did-can't stomach the man)

would be a HELL of a lot better off if he wasn't around. And I mean that with all my heart.

I thought he was going to Costa Rica if Obama was elected? Whatever happened to that?

I bloody hate that piece of shit Limbaugh.

The GOP was against feeding the worlds kids publicly since this UN vote

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/12/20/212722/43

what he normally eats.