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You have stumbled onto a time honored Washington, DC legislative gambit. The late New York Senator Daniel P. Moynihan (D) once dismissively called it, Boob Bait for the Bubbas. You just gotta love Pat Moynihan’s use of alliteration to make his point.
So here’s how it works. Congress writes a bill entitled, The defense of motherhood, apple pie, little puppy dogs, and baby elephants act. Usually around 5% of the multi-billion dollar bill is allocated to anything or anyone actually mentioned in the bill’s title. The remaining 95% of the government largess is then cleverly redirected to bi-partisan Washington DC’s donor/lobbyist class. If you cannot take care of your own friends using other people’s money, what then is the purpose of politics?
The beauty of the Boob Bait for the Bubba’s gambit is that if anyone ever dares to criticize, much less vote against the bill, then they are immediately attacked by all in the MSM, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and the deep state for their personal hatred of motherhood, apple pie, little puppy dogs, and/or even baby elephants.
And the people just love it. Best of all, it keeps most folks from asking too many questions about their rising prices of gas, food, and grocery bills as violent crime in their local neighborhoods soar, our southern border collapses, and our State Department, Pentagon, & CIA continue to diddle with Eastern European affairs that may or may not result in a nuclear WW III with Russia.
But ain’t that America?
