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Article: Bickering blocking Farm Bill progress
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- November 25, 2007
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Even by its Olympic standards for hyperbole and hypocrisy, the
performance of the U.S. Senate during the fruitless, pre-
Thanksgiving Farm Bill debate was breathtaking.
For a week, the nation watched and listened as 100 grown men and
women, arguably the best-educated, most thoughtful leaders in
America, bickered like kindergartners over rules on how to divvy up
286 billion crayons on the Farm Bill table.
The adult supervision of the affair was little better. From the
White House, President Bush threatened to veto any Farm Bill that
resembled either the Senate or House version.
Ironically, the President's snarl, while aimed at the Democrats,
hit his party's aggies harder because they - ...