Thursday, February 05, 2009

Paging Mr. Biden.

The irrepressible Mr. Sargent is, as always, reporting the shit out of Ben Nelson and Susan Collins's wingnutty stimulus cuts. They all suck, but this one...

$150,000,000 from the Violence Against Women Act


...is the biggest headscratcher of them all. I, for one, would like to know what Joe Biden thinks of a fellow Dem trying to gut his baby.

...WTF?

He [Nelson] is by no means backing off the cuts. The Senators are still in negotiations to better target the recovery package toward truly stimulative items and looking at those programs that they don’t believe would create jobs, preserve jobs or quickly turn the economy around as potential cuts.


A reminder of the VAWA's intent:

It provided $1.6 billion to enhance investigation and prosecution of the violent crime perpetrated against women, increased pre-trial detention of the accused, imposed automatic and mandatory restitution on those convicted, and allowed civil redress in cases prosecutors chose to leave unprosecuted.


Yeah, by all means let's skimp on this.

No comments: