It is Monday, and Republican Rep. Deborah Pryce (OH-15) actually went to work today! Wow! What a surprise! Maybe she is not as lazy as we all thought! Nah! Just kidding. Pryce did show up in the halls of Congress today even though it is Monday.
This article from NPR is from last week but it clearly shows how Deborah Pryce and the rest of her Republican friends just don't get it:
The House is expected to vote Friday on a far-reaching farm bill. The measure sets policy for crop subsidies, food stamps and many other programs over the next five years. Critics say the bill doesn't do enough to cut those subsidies at a time of near record crop prices, and the measure has drawn a veto threat from the White House....
In order to fund the farm bill, Democrats closed a tax loophole. Guess which Republican Representative went and had a hissy fit about that tax loophole??? Deborah Pryce!
Here is more from the NPR article---
.....Democrats countered that Republicans were exaggerating the tax's impact, and noted that the Bush administration had itself called for the loophole to be closed. Rep. Earl Pomeroy, a Democrat from North Dakota, questioned the political judgment of House Republicans who oppose closing the loophole:
"They'd rather protect the tax cheaters in Bermuda than help the farmers of this country," Pomeroy said.....
Pryce and her GOP friends like protecting those tax cheaters in Bermuda and not the Ohio farmers. We won't forget.