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Tonight, another episode of american socialism. this time it's the house version of the farm bill, which like all farm bills is a very bad piece of socialism that subsidizes wealthy players in the agriculture industry who live in abject fear of the real forces of capitalism. the first time john boehner tried to pass his version of bad socialism, it failed after democrats balked at the draconian cuts to the food stamp program and 62 republicans said they were not draconian enough. so when the farm bill came up for a vote again last thursday, house republicans simply decided to leave out food st...

Michael grinwald went on a twitter tirade about republican hypocrisy and the washington media's refusal to acknowledge it. "i honestly don't know how self-respecting reporters can take gop demands for spending cuts seriously. look at the farm bill!" "i'm sure reporters will remember this trillion-dollar farm boondoggle every time they write how republicans want to reduce spending." "house r's passed a trillion-dollar bill to make sure rich farmers never lose money but they somehow banged a hooker and obama said broccoli." did i read that write? "the gop rule is money to poor people is socialis...

And cotton. and they just left off the food stamps because as you said, i guess giving money to working people so that they can eat, i guess that's what they consider socialism. >> let's listen to what house democrat rosa deloro said about the bill. >> we have 26 individuals in this nation, we can't find out who they are, they get at least a million dollars in a subsidy. a million dollars in a subsidy. they have no income threshold, no asset test, no cap. they don't even have to farm the land. and they don't have to follow conservation practices. you want to go and find out where we can save m...

Era." michael, thank you very much for joining me, the anti-bad socialism crowd on the farm bill. it is just an astonishing thing to watch the way this thing sails through and both parties go for it. you know, full throttle. and i'm just talking about not the food stamp part of it, which by the way is i think the good socialism part of it. but you know, the part of it that you were raging against. it's amazing how it sails through. >> yeah. it's funny. originally, it used to be this kind of evil coalition of the sugar guys with the corn guys with the soybean guys and the cotton guys. after a w...

Changing things and then, you know, campaigning meant governing right quick. but you know i go back to something i say every time, that people have to remember that, you know, thanks to two books, one by robert draper the other by michael grinwald we know between the time obama was elected president and the time he was inaugurated, republicans met at least twice, the leadership met at least twice to hatch a plan to just, you know, obstruct the incoming president no matter what. even though the economy was falling off the cliff it was all about obstruct him in 2009, to take back the house or bo...