Sanford Bishop: “a rose by any other name smells just as sweet. And dung by any other name stinks just as much. A stinking bill that cuts…”

“a rose by any other name smells just as sweet. And dung by any other name stinks just as much. A stinking bill that cuts spending for Medicaid, food stamps, student loans, foster care, child support, school lunches, and senior care by $54 billion and then cuts revenue taxes for folks earning $300,000 or more by $70 billion still leaves a stinking deficit of $16 billion. Add $7.1 billion for the cost of the President's flu initiative and $200 billion for gulf coast reconstruction and that grows to $223 billion. This Republican reconciliation package is misnamed. It is actually a sham. Republicans have rejected the Blue Dog 12-point plan to cut deficit spending and now want to fool the American people. Madam Speaker, you can dress up a pig and call it a lady, but it is still a stinking pig. You can dress up a sham and call it deficit reduction; but it still says oink, oink, still stinks and is still a lie. ____________________”