House Republicans Hate Michelle Obama More Than They Love Kids
First Lady Michelle Obama is, in many ways, a more attractive target for conservatives than her Free-World-Leading husband, and this week, House Republicans took aim at the First Lady’s signature initiative. In their proposed fiscal year 2015 agriculture spending bill, the House GOP included a provision that would gut nutritional requirements in school lunches. The White House responded by saying that Mrs. Obama will continue to put the health of our children ahead of politics.
President Obama may, indeed, be the subject of a greater volume of conservative derangement than anyone in history, but Michelle Obama strikes just as nasty a chord with the base, with little or no effort, unless you include trying to get kids to eat healthier. There’s just something about her that riles up a certain portion of the culturally conservative Republican base, but hell if I can figure out what it is.
It’s no surprise, then, that House Republicans would make it their personal mission to gut the school lunch nutritional requirements that Michelle Obama has championed, which include the inclusion of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and a reduction in sodium content. That sodium reduction, by the way, would bring school lunches to almost exactly a third of the current recommended adult daily allowance for sodium by 2017. The provision would allow any school to opt out of the requirements completely if they could show their school lunch program is losing money:
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall establish a process by which a State shall grant a waiver from compliance with the final regulations published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on January 26, 2012 (77 Fed. Reg. 4088 et seq.) for the 2014-15 school year to any school food authority located in the State that verifies a net loss from operating a food service program for a period of at least 6 months that begins on or after July 1, 2013.
Notwithstanding the dubious logic that if a school is losing money on lunches, it must be because they’re not poisoning our kids, why not propose letting those schools apply for additional funding to defray the losses, if they can prove they were related to the nutritional requirements? In what universe does it make sense to solve the problem by feeding our kids shit? By this reasoning, the states should grant licenses to sell crack if your school’s losing money. Forget Taco Tuesdays, say hello to Meth Mondays!
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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M D Reese May 23rd, 2014 at 12:50
This is a good illustration of what the Pro-Birth party thinks of fetuses once they become actual real live children.
Alan May 23rd, 2014 at 13:08
Oh, you mean, like they have to be fed? That costs money!
M D Reese May 23rd, 2014 at 17:49
What better opportunity to teach those newborns that there is no such thing as a free lunch?
(snark–but I have heard them say words much to that effect. I believe it involved 3 year olds though, and the plan was to have them sweep the floors if they couldn’t afford to pay…)
M D Reese May 23rd, 2014 at 12:50
This is a good illustration of what the Pro-Birth party thinks of fetuses once they become actual real live children.
Alan May 23rd, 2014 at 13:08
Oh, you mean, like they have to be fed? That costs money!
M D Reese May 23rd, 2014 at 17:49
What better opportunity to teach those newborns that there is no such thing as a free lunch?
(snark–but I have heard them say words much to that effect. I believe it involved 3 year olds though, and the plan was to have them sweep the floors if they couldn’t afford to pay…)
Bunya May 23rd, 2014 at 13:55
I can understand the hatred the GOP harbors. Michelle Obama is so much more intelligent and better looking than any republican.
fahvel May 23rd, 2014 at 14:40
than all of the crud combined.
Bunya May 23rd, 2014 at 13:55
I can understand the hatred the GOP harbors. Michelle Obama is so much more intelligent and better looking than any republican.
fahvel May 23rd, 2014 at 14:40
than all of the crud combined.
fahvel May 23rd, 2014 at 14:39
what’s the surprise – these are the same people who wipe and eat with the same hand and know no soap. pure low lives.
fahvel May 23rd, 2014 at 14:39
what’s the surprise – these are the same people who wipe and eat with the same hand and know no soap. pure low lives.
John Tarter May 23rd, 2014 at 17:46
I heard a story on the radio about this and the cafeteria workers they interviewed said that the kids are simply not eating the food Michelle wants them to eat – most of it is going directly into the trash. Once again we see that liberals with their good intentions only results in wastefulness and a big expense for the taxpayer.
arc99 May 23rd, 2014 at 17:51
once again we see that instead of offering viable alternatives to address a very real problem of childhood diabetes and obesity, right wingers have nothing to offer other than mindless hostility.
arc99 May 23rd, 2014 at 17:54
oh and since I am a taxpayer too, I see it as a much better use of my tax dollars to keep trying to improve school menus instead of having to pay for medical treatment for problems that could have prevented far less expensively with a better diet.
Obewon May 23rd, 2014 at 18:14
John Tarter’s bumper sticker quote says he heard a RWNJ Radio report from somebodies best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend, that heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who saw Rush Limbaugh overdosing on Hillbilly Heroin OxyContin while saying some kid tossed his bannanna & orange peels into the bin for the schools compost pile to fertilize organically grown school food!
jasperjava May 23rd, 2014 at 19:50
“I heard a story on the radio”
Here we have the source of John Tarter/Wayout’s ignorance and misinformation.
It’s like admitting you’re a easily-led gullible idiot.
John Tarter May 23rd, 2014 at 17:46
I heard a story on the radio about this and the cafeteria workers they interviewed said that the kids are simply not eating the food Michelle wants them to eat – most of it is going directly into the trash. Once again we see that liberals with their good intentions only results in wastefulness and a big expense for the taxpayer.
arc99 May 23rd, 2014 at 17:51
once again we see that instead of offering viable alternatives to address a very real problem of childhood diabetes and obesity, right wingers have nothing to offer other than mindless hostility.
arc99 May 23rd, 2014 at 17:54
oh and since I am a taxpayer too, I see it as a much better use of my tax dollars to keep trying to improve school menus instead of having to pay for medical treatment for problems that could have prevented far less expensively with a better diet.
Obewon May 23rd, 2014 at 18:14
John Tarter’s bumper sticker quotes a RWNJ Radio report from somebodies best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend, that heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who saw Rush Limbaugh overdosing on Hillbilly Heroin OxyContin while saying some kid tossed his bannanna & orange peels into the bin for the schools compost pile to fertilize organically grown school food!
jasperjava May 23rd, 2014 at 19:50
“I heard a story on the radio”
Here we have the source of John Tarter/Wayout’s ignorance and misinformation.
It’s like admitting you’re a easily-led gullible idiot.
Obewon May 23rd, 2014 at 18:06
GOPoverty-Boehner’s Least Popular House in US History provision guts Nutritional Requirements in school lunches for profitability: Repubs legislate brainrot for schoolkids mandating that children’s lunches now be stretched with Paste & Sawdust to penny-pinch while preserving Leave No Billioanirehead Behind taxcuts!
The Hungry, Healthy-Free Kids Act. House Republicans are doing what they can to keep healthy food out of the mouths of poor kids! http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/05/school_lunch_program_in_the_agriculture_bill_house_republicans_want_rural.html No wonder just 21% of Voters today are braindead enough to remain registered repubs. GTFO America GOP.
Obewon May 23rd, 2014 at 18:06
GOPoverty-Boehner’s Least Popular House in US History provision guts Nutritional Requirements in school lunches for profitability: Repubs legislate brainrot for schoolkids mandating that children’s lunches now be stretched with Paste & Sawdust to penny-pinch while preserving Leave No Billioanirehead Behind taxcuts!
The Hungry, Healthy-Free Kids Act. House Republicans are doing what they can to keep healthy food out of the mouths of poor kids! http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/05/school_lunch_program_in_the_agriculture_bill_house_republicans_want_rural.html No wonder just 21% of Voters today are braindead enough to remain registered repubs. GTFO America GOP.
jasperjava May 23rd, 2014 at 19:52
“There’s just something about her that riles up a certain portion of the
culturally conservative Republican base, but hell if I can figure out
what it is.”
Uhhhh… you’re being facetious, right?
jasperjava May 23rd, 2014 at 19:52
“There’s just something about her that riles up a certain portion of the
culturally conservative Republican base, but hell if I can figure out
what it is.”
Uhhhh… you’re being facetious, right?
Nobama May 23rd, 2014 at 21:22
Schools are buying food the kids won’t eat so the food gets tossed in the trash. The schools lose money. The solution is to give more money to the schools instead of providing food the kids will eat. Brilliant logic!
jasperjava May 23rd, 2014 at 22:39
John Tarter/Wayout said the exact same thing just a little while ago.
You KKKonservatives really are a brainless mass of mindless Borgs, reading from the same songbook that is being spoonfed to you by hateful right-wing radio entertainers.
Oblowz May 23rd, 2014 at 21:22
Schools are buying food the kids won’t eat so the food gets tossed in the trash. The schools lose money. The solution is to give more money to the schools instead of providing food the kids will eat. Brilliant logic!
jasperjava May 23rd, 2014 at 22:39
John Tarter/Wayout said the exact same thing just a little while ago.
You KKKonservatives really are a brainless mass of mindless Borgs, reading from the same songbook that is being spoonfed to you by hateful right-wing radio entertainers.