Soledad O’Brien pins GOP’s Sessions over fiscal cliff proposal to cut food stamps

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Soledad O’Brien does it again. As part of her ongoing crusade to ask serious people serious questions, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien asked Alabama Republican Senator Jeff Sessions to explain why he thinks balancing the budget on the backs of starving children, by cutting food stamps, is a good idea.

Sessions was speechless. Nearly. It’s not often that journalists have the nerve to ask US Senator actual normal questions with normal follow-up questions when they don’t answer the first one

Mother Jones does a great write-up of the interview, here’s one great quote:

Then, O’Brien went for the jugular. “I mean, it’s 61 percent of households in your state have children who are recipients of the food program they are on,” she said. At a loss, Sessions attempted to shift the conversation. “Do you think there’s no problem with the program?” he asked O’Brien. “Do you think it’s perfectly well-run?”

“I guess my question would be, when are you thinking of things to cut… Why not cut something else? There are other things that could be on the table before you pick a program that is feeding the nation’s poor children.”

Read more and video of the exchange: http://americablog.com/2012/12/soledad-obrien-sessions-food-stamps-fiscal-cliff.html