DeLay Seeks Child Welfare Power for Bush

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told House colleagues Thursday that abused and neglected children "are dying and it's our fault" because programs designed to protect them are overlapping and ineffective.

Testifying from the dais in a House Government Reform Committee, DeLay said government agencies could be reorganized more quickly if Congress cedes to President Bush the authority to do the work.

Congress for decades has appropriated more and more money and created dozens of programs, bureaus and agencies to address child protection, he said. Many are redundant, funded with different pots of money and may not be working.

DeLay, R-Texas, said the problem of abused and neglected children "is real and it's acute and the response at the state and especially the federal level has been reactive and clumsy."

He said a White House task force on disadvantaged youth identified 339 federal programs that are charged with helping children in some way; 13 federal agencies administer more than 120 programs that provide mentoring.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4113763,00.html

[StephNW4Clark]

1. DeLay and Child Welfare?

I never thought I'd see those words in the same sentence.

[notadmblnd]

10. Why doesn't he come out and suggest we eliminate congress?

he truly won't be happy until he has all the power will he?

[Alerter_]

12. they want more kids - remember Jeb's Florida missing children?

Massive numbers of "missing children" from Jeb Bush's Florida Department of Families and Children. Now they want to take the "we lost the kids" act nationally. Truly terrifing.

[notadmblnd]

13. I wonder why they want to steal our children?

nt

[dweller]

17. methinks

the draft will not be able to supply enough bodies....gotta get an early start.

dp

[ender]

2. let me guess - faith based initiatives...

[Jacobin]

5. beat me to it

Appropriate $10 billion for baptist sunday schools?

[crossroads]

15. My God! Save me from your followers!

:eyes:

[TahitiNut]

6. Uhhh... that's "Feith-based".

:grr:

[Don_G]

3. I Can See Combining The Programs

Starting next February but NEVER under Dimbo!

[shraby]

8. They'll rework the programs into one or

two then not fund them. That's their modus operandi.

[TahitiNut]

4. The privatization of "child welfare" = workhouses.

David Copperfield anyone? :puke:

[crossroads]

16. They need the slaves.

:kick:

[Don Claybrook]

7. Tom DeLay caring about children

Is that not ridiculous on its face?

I'm certain the plan is to let the Executive handle childrens' welfare so that the White House can allot a pittance to the states and be done with it. I think the phrase they like to use is 'drowning the federal government in the bathtub'.

It's so nice to see that Tom DeLay has a soft spot for disadvantaged children in his heart.

[movonne]

9. Yes I think that is good, I mean he has done so well with the

schools, war, economy, etc. God what balls this administration have.

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. At the heart of this there is no doubt a plan to eliminate funding

for these programs in the name of "streamlining". A bastard like DeLay isn't about do anything progressive, he will simply make it sound that way at first.

[Blasphemer]

14. What a joke...

Any plan that involves "ceding authority" to Shrub is not only scary but doomed to failure. Yes, the problem, is acute but the idea that * is the answer is absurd.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

18. Gee, Tom...when you and Junior can follow through on...

..."No child left behind", maybe then you'll have enough credibility to talk about "Child Welfare".

And speaking of credibility, here are the views of Tom Delay on overseas sweatshops and other subjects:

<http://www.foeaction.org/Page9-sweatshop.htm>

<http://www.salon.com/news/1999/02/04news.html>

<http://www.tylwythteg.com/enemies/tom.html>

[atreides1]

19. There It Is

The first sign of the Delay Republicans making their grab for permanent power.

[NashVegas]

20. Wow, You KNOW It's Bad

When Republicans try to resort to "it's for the chiiiiiildren" logic.

[loyalsister]

21. So that they could call him father or

maybe something more grandiose. This is one of the sickest things I've read because it is reminiscent of what went on in the Jim Jones People's Temple. He had custody of a bunch of people's children because he convinced them to sign the documents. He also had people convinced that he himself was god. That guy had a heavy arsenal, too.

Bush's playbook resembles a patchwork of megalomaniac history.

[Mithras61]

22. Tom DeLay wouldn't know child welfare

if it came up and bit him on the @$$.

This is a combo move to consolidate power in the hands of Shrub (and later, DeLay when he becomes Pretzeldent - hey, he thinks it's a done deal) and to make it easier to control funding to ensure that his edicts are obeyed.

[Snoggera]

23. Just another trip to the 20's

Yet another social program in danger, except this one involves children in need. Not just screwing with their educations, but with their very lives. Unbelievable.

[yardwork]

24. Maybe DeLay would like to start with protecting Iraqi children,

especially those being bombed by Americans to death or mutilation, not to mention those being tortured while in U.S. military custody?

I guess DeLay isn't interested in those children.

[robbedvoter]

25. Cuz W proved so competent with everything else - give him more!

Makes sense!

[Claire Beth]

26. we dem's have just GOT to get back control...

of the house, senate AND Presidency. These people are frickin' scary!!!!