Republican Reality: People (i.e. you, apparently) are angry that homeless shelters are spending government money on fancy meals for the homeless (like risotto, pumpkin soup, and red-wine bar-be-que beef) when they should be serving macaroni and cheese and hamburger helper.
The Actual Reality: The two homeless shelters that were mentioned in the above Republican Reality don't receive federal funds for their operations, and the menu they offer to the homeless is based on whatever donations their kitchens receive from local restaurants' leftovers.
What is it with Republicans and their culinary philistinism these days? John Cole thinks they are revisiting the old Communist jeremiad of "bourgeois scum eat chicken kiev, real comrades eat borscht", while one of his commenters (using reaction to Obama's "put air in your tires to save gas" statement as an example) comes closer to my belief that Republicans will just bitch about anything endorsed by liberals. (I especially like his quote, "I swear you could kill off all of these assholes with one well placed MoveOn.Org add imploring people not to eat cyanide.")
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