Oh this is rich:
Food stamp recipients will have their grocery store humiliation compounded by having to show a photo ID in order to buy food if Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) gets his way.
Under a bill Vitter introduced Wednesday, beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) would be denied their food if they are unable to show a photographic identification card at the register. For millions of low-income Americans who don’t have an official photo ID and can’t necessarily afford to buy one, Vitter’s bill would mean being cut off from their primary food source.
Vitter cites one fluke technological failure with the SNAP system and says the legislation “will restore some accountability to the program so it’s not ruined for people who use it appropriately,” suggesting that “fraud surrounding the taxpayer-funded program” is part of why SNAP costs doubled since 2008. While Republicans frequently employ that same dishonest talking point, the reality is that food programs have the lowest fraud rates of any public program. At 1 percent, SNAP fraud rates pale in comparison to the rate of fraud in the farm assistance programs that conservatives like Vitter are attempting to shelter from cuts in the ongoing farm bill fight.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/01/16/3174021/vitter-photo-food-stamps/
Call The Gadfly a cynical bastard if you must, but it will be a Polar Vortex day in the pit of hell when The Gadfly grants an iota of credibility on the subject of "accountability" to Senator "Diaper" David Vitter.
Seriously dear reader, who other than the most gullible, backward thinking, partisan rubes would invest any amount of faith in a guy who was caught surreptitiously frolicking in the company of some rent-a-hookers whom he paid to dress him up in diapers?
The day that the creepy diaper fetish, Republican Senator from Louisiana mans up and holds himself publicly accountable for betraying his marriage and his family, and betraying the responsibility and duties of the high office elected position that the citizens of Louisiana granted him by doing the only honorable thing -- resigning his Senate seat -- is the day that The Gadfly will give a flying fuck what David Vitter has to say on the subject of accountability.
Until that day materializes, David Vitter should just stick to commenting upon the issues that he is most knowledgeable about -- such as:
----TFG
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