The Maverick Tribe

To the extent that the general election has begun, Barack Obama is losing.  He supports a $300 billion farm bill Congress sent to the president last week - a bill that expanded subsidies to a variety of food growers and agribusinesses and is a marvel of special interest handouts, corporate welfare, government waste and irresponsibility, and politics as usual.  In short, everything his campaign supposedly stands against.

John McCain, as expected, was one of the few who voted against the bill, which passed with a veto-proof majority.

Yesterday, David Brooks had an excellent column on the gap between what Obama says and what he sometimes does.

For shame!