Guinta: Protecting his Constituency

by: susanthe

Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 11:22:58 AM EST

I will work tirelessly to find places to cut the budget and implement savings; I have outlined many specific proposals during the campaign. I do not feel, however, that LIHEAP's New Hampshire program, which served over 35,000 households last year, is an appropriate place to cut."

Frank's no dummy,  he knows that letting poor folks freeze to death isn't a good re-election strategy. He voted against funding Planned Parenthood, because women should be forced to serve as incubators in Frankworld. And if some of them get ovarian cancer - oh well. There are plenty more women around. They're the disposable gender. Plus it'll save taxpayers some $363 million! Those kinds of savings are worth cutting off cancer, HIV, and STD  testing, and contraception for low income women.

Frank showed he has what it takes to be tough on low income women, but he's a marshmallow when it comes to Big Oil. He voted AGAINST cutting taxpayer subsidies to oil companies - along with all of his fellow Republicans.

For the typical American, I suspect this will seem hard to understand. In the face of fiscal challenges, Republicans are ready to slash funding in education, health care, job training, and national security, but they're not willing to end taxpayer subsidies -- our money -- for the oil industry? An industry that's already enjoying extraordinary profits?

Also note, ending the subsidies would save the federal government tens of billions of dollars, making a significant dent in the deficit-reduction campaign that Republicans pretend to care about. It's a reminder that the GOP's commitment to fiscal responsibility is shaped in large part by who'll suffer as a result of the cuts -- working families can feel the brunt of the budget ax, under the GOP vision, but ExxonMobil can't.

Every time Americans go to the pump -- which is becoming more painful all the time -- Democrats want consumers to remember, "You're not only paying higher prices for gas, your tax dollars, thanks to Republicans, are also subsidizing the oil companies themselves."

For the record, ending those subsidies would be a savings of $40 billion.

Here's the roll call The Bass master also voted to continue socialist subsidies for Big Oil.

After all, it's Big Oil and the rest of their pals in big biz that'll be ponying up the big bucks for their reelection campaigns. Corporate America is their real constituency.