Farmers: Thank Goodness For Small Favors

The MinnPost notes that agriculture is apparently “left out” of Porkulus:

In the blizzard of new research funding created by the federal stimulus bill, however, an important science has been left out in the cold: agriculture. The stimulus package approved by Congress and President Obama includes $10 billion for the National Institutes of Health, $3 billion for the National Science Foundation and $2 billion for the Energy Department — but not a penny for competitive research in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). One early version of the Senate’s plan included $100 million for agricultural science research, a tiny amount relative to the other research spending, but it did not survive the negotiating process.

Right.

Because the ag sector is so undersubsidized in normal times.

Because federal pork isn’t so seductive that rock-ribbed conservative farmers on the plains, real Americans who wouldn’t vote for a Democrat for President (and haven’t in generations), keep sending pork-snuffling gerbils like Kent Conrad and Tom Daschle and Byron Dorgan and Chuck Hagel to Congress.

Because almost eighty years of comprehensive farm subsidies have made agriculture such a stable enterprise, have rescued the “family farm”, and have kept food prices down.

Thank goodness Obama skipped something  we need.  Perhaps even he’s too smart to risk those consequences.

16 thoughts on “Farmers: Thank Goodness For Small Favors

  1. There are those that say Congressman Collin Peterson (Rep-Vera Sun) is basically a tool of Crystal Suger and Big Ethanol.

  2. Which part of Iowa is real Americans and which are the fake ones?!?

    Funny how challenging President Bush was un American and traitorous, but hoping, even praying for Obama to fail is patriotic.

  3. Which part of Iowa is real Americans

    The ones that vote conservative.

    and which are the fake ones?!?

    The ones that don’t.

    Simple so far, huh?

    Funny how challenging President Bush was un American and traitorous,

    Utter strawman, of course – neither I nor any credible conservative has ever said any such thing.

    but hoping, even praying for Obama to fail is patriotic.

    I, and every credible conservative (including Rush Limbaugh, since that’s the talking-point swat you’re taking here) hopes Obama succeeds in leading this country.

    Hoping for socialism to fail to take root in this country’s economy? That is most definitely patriotic. On this, there is no rational argument.

    For someone who complains so loudly about “talking points”, you seem to pretty much use them exclusively!

  4. Glad to see you got the GOP E-Mail this AM just in time. You never have been good and changing the stripes on the proverbial zebra.

    Hope you are feeling better!

  5. RickDFL called me a traitor on this very blog not too long ago. Long ago he called Michelle Malkin ‘un-American’.
    Of course, RickDFL also defended himself against the charge of ‘defearism’ by saying that the fact that we had lost in Iraq was self-evident, so you have to consider the source.

  6. So, you call people who don’t vote Conservatives fake American’s, classy!

    And I wasn’t going for anything, just calling you on your specific claim, on topic, and in your post. See, you don’t get to pick what I mean!

    Still hoping you are feeling better.

    Flash

    PS: ‘Porkulus’ was coined and pushed, promoted, and now absorbed by the Right Wing Memo Machine by Rush Limbaugh. Simple FACT! If you don;t want him to be fingered as the leader of your party, TPoint or not, maybe you shouldn’t keep following his lead.

  7. “We had lost in Iraq ”

    When did that happen. Last I heard we were doing quite well, slowly handing over security to the Iraqi people, following a successful surge. And now, due to those success, the current administration is in a position to begin drawing down troops in a safe and secure manner. Sure sounds like a ‘W’ to me.

  8. Ask RickDFL, Flash. He was the armchair general in charge of the runaway-like-a-little-girl campaign.

  9. Larry King, in an interview featuring liberal talk radio host Stephanie Miller:

    MILLER: I guess that is what Nancy and her friends want. As long as you have a place to listen Rush on the radio — if he fails we all fail.

    KING: If his policies fail, he fails, right?

    MILLER: Exactly. To me that seems treasonous.

    http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0903/03/lkl.01.html

  10. Say Flush? Just so you know, having our President enter into a pissing match with a talk show guy is a new low, even for the party of Scrubs.

    You’d have thought that destroying 212 years of sacrifice, prosperity and success would keep Barry busy, but I guess once you get used to crawling the gutters of Chicago it’s tough to “keep it real” in the oval office.

    Anyway, we’re happy as clams to have Rush kick the tar out of Barry, just as long as he wants….pass that back up the daisy chain, will ya?

  11. “having our President enter into a pissing match with a talk show guy is a new low”

    I guess if it were true, you may be right, but Rush is just pissing on himself. An off the cuff ‘people shouldn’t be listening to Rush’ comment a sane person wouldn’t characterize as anything more than speaking the truth

    To correct, you missed a few words
    “”You’d have thought that the Bush Administration destroying 212 years of sacrifice, prosperity and success would keep President Obama busy”

    Maybe, but you aren’t used to a President who can multi task!

    “”Anyway, we’re happy as clams to have Rush kick the tar out of Barry, just as long as he wants….pass that back up the daisy chain, will ya?””

    And I am just as happy that people like you actually believe that. That percentage is down the 20% now!! You’ll need more than a Ralph Nader to overcome that plurality!

    Muwahahahahah PFFFFFffffffffffttttttttttttttAHAhahahahahahaha

    Flash

  12. How can so many folk miss Limbaugh’s message?

    Is it that they don’t understand it, conservatism, socialism… or that they just want to sneer?

  13. Maybe, but you aren’t used to a President who can multi task!

    Yeah! Great Leader is turning a recession into a depression, nationalizing the banking industry, overseeing the death of the auto industry, overseeing the demise of the Middle Class, stopping global warming, lowering the sea level, stabbing Israel in the back, encouraging Russian beligerence, and busily turning the USA into a third world country, all at the same time.

    Cut him some slack, the man has a full plate.

  14. Flash-We can`t wait to see Obama debate Rush on the radio, to show Rush how wrong he is! But we won`t, because Obama is a pussy.

  15. I didn’t hear anything from Barry today…I guess he blew his wad on the 278 point drop in the market.

    Say Flush?

    Any word floating around the Sorosphere on just how far Barry plans to let the market tank before he tells everyone he was just kidding about that “spreading it around” thing he had going?

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