OK, This is Simply Despicable

One of the conflicts between the Obama administration and Congress has been the Obama administration's "Race to the Top" education program, where the Obama has insisted this program, an unproven experiment which consists largely of bribing state education departments to attack job security for teachers.

The problems is that Congress is using pay-go, and the money isn't there for it, so Congress cut 15% from the program, which has led to veto threats.

Well, David Obey, who is now retiring from Congress, gave an interview about how he is leaving "discontented," and he drops a bombshell.

When the administration protested, Obey told that they needed to suggest where the budget cuts would be made, and Barack Obama and His Evil Minions^™ suggested cutting food stamps, apparently because people on food stamps are getting a "good deal":

We were told we have to offset every damn dime of [new teacher spending]. Well, it ain’t easy to find offsets, and with all due respect to the administration their first suggestion for offsets was to cut food stamps. Now they were careful not to make an official budget request, because they didn’t want to take the political heat for it, but that was the first trial balloon they sent down here. … Their line of argument was, well, the cost of food relative to what we thought it would be has come down, so people on food stamps are getting a pretty good deal in comparison to what we thought they were going to get. Well isn’t that nice. Some poor bastard is going to get a break for a change.

I am used to this administration making me nostalgic for Richard Nixon, but I am now feeling nostalgic for Dick Cheney,and I don't like this feeling.

At least Dick Cheney was honest about being an evil rat-f%$#.