By three votes, the House of Representatives advanced a farm bill, but not before the Republican leadership slipped in a provision that would turn off any possibility of the Congress’s fast-tracking an effort to turn off American aid to Saudi Arabia due to that country’s abominable war in Yemen. And this, at roughly the same time that the Senate apparently was moving to pass a War Powers resolution limiting U.S. participation in this humanitarian atrocity.
This is one of the last acts of Paul Ryan’s speakership, and he richly deserves the contempt that will be heaped on him for playing legislative monkey-mischief with starving children. And in a farm bill. God, what a fake the man is…
Consider what Ryan and his majority did today. They made it impossible for the United States to swiftly extricate itself from accessorial conduct in a horrible ongoing crime-by-famine, and they did it by sabotaging a bill that helps get food to people in this country…
That’s how Paul Ryan will leave Congress, complicit in the death by starvation of children he doesn’t even know.
Sebastion Cooper 