Here’s why we’re losing House seats that went 60% for Bush in 2004

Take a look at Tom Thune’s justification for the farm bill monstrosity (AP via Washington Examiner):

“If you’re running for office this year, obviously you want to demonstrate that you can put up a record of accomplishment that’s based upon working with both sides of the political aisle,” said GOP Sen. John Thune of South Dakota. “I think people, even those who don’t necessarily represent farm states, also want to do something about energy and they want to do something about the high cost of food.”

The “high cost of food”?  Are you kidding me?  This disaster will sends $30 billion “to farmers to idle their land and to other environmental programs.”  How does that alleviate the “high cost of food”?  Howe does maintaining a 45 cent-a-gallon corn-ethanol subsidy alleviate the “high cost of food”?

It’s bad enough Republicans are acting like big-government Democrats; now they’re even talking like them - i.e., saying anything the voters want to hear and hoping their too stupid to notice.

How utterly embarrassing, yet painfully typical.

Cross-posted to the right-wing liberal