Yet another story of wasteful government spending

Money is going to be defunded from SPAN - one poor children's welfare food program - to fund a new program, that Michelle Obama wants.

Story #2: First Lady Puts Lawmakers in Evil Thigh Squeeze

RUSH: From The Politico: "A bill to provide healthful school lunches for low-income children -- a high-profile project of first lady Michelle Obama -- has raised tensions between the White House and President Barack Obama’s key allies in the House of Representatives." May I just stop there? Let me make sure I read this correctly: "A bill to provide healthful school lunches for low-income children." Don't we have about 25 of those already? Do we not now have school lunch? We have school lunch. We have school breakfast. We have school lunch during the summer when there is no school. We're even talking about school dinner. So what is this? A bill to provide healthful school lunches for low-income children, as though we don't already have that? What the hell is food stamps? What the hell's a school lunch program? What do you mean a bill to provide healthful school lunches for low-income children? Who wrote this? Abby Phillip and Carol Lee, a couple of women. Here we go. Feminization of the news business, Chickification.

You know, a real journalist, when told that there's a bill to provide healthful school lunches to low-income children, instead of swooning and saying, "Oh, that's so wonderful," would say, "What do you mean, how many do we already have?" Anyway, let's continue now. "A bill to provide healthful school lunches for low-income children -- a high-profile project of first lady Michelle Obama -- has raised tensions between the White House and President Barack Obama’s key allies in the House of Representatives. Despite heavy lobbying by the first lady, more than 100 House Democrats have balked at approving the Senate’s $4.5 billion version of the nutrition bill because it is funded in part with $2.2 billion in cuts to SNAP, the federal food stamp program."

Now, we knew this was coming. Remember how they passed some sort of a stimulus bill a month or so ago and they were gonna pay for it with cuts to the school lunch program, and we all said, "Well, they'll fix that by the time they get there, they're just saying this to give the impression that they're so-called paying for this." But now a hundred House Democrats are upset $2.2 billion was cut from the food stamp program. "They want assurances from the Obama administration that the funding cuts the Senate approved will be restored in the near future. 'The White House’s preference is to just pass the bill,' said a congressional staff member who spoke on the condition of anonymity while the negotiations are ongoing. 'So far, our folks … they’re not willing to do that.' Under pressure from advocacy groups and the first lady to pass the bill before the current authorization expires Sept. 30, West Wing efforts to persuade House allies to support a second cut to SNAP have escalated to a frantic race against the clock." Well, this is absurd.

"The first lady, frustrated over the pace of the legislative process, has applied pressure behind the scenes -- on the president’s aides as well as on lawmakers." Now, this pressure behind the scenes is not specified. We do not know, what, she got 'em in the evil thigh squeeze out there? What's she doing to these people? Well, have you seen 'em? Crying out loud. There was a Bond movie, GoldenEye, and one of the female bad people, her last name was Onatopp, something like Xenia Onatopp. And her way of killing her enemies was to get them into vise grips between her thighs and squeeze 'em. Well, it was a Bond movie. When I see here: "The first lady, frustrated over the pace of the legislative process, has applied pressure behind the scenes," and they don't specify it, what's she doing? For a silly, stupid school lunch program that we've already got.