CNN Questions Why Republican Would Want To Cut Government Program Used by Poor

Soledad O'Brien to Republican Sen. Sessions: Why Pick on People on Food Stamps? (Newsbusters)

Appearing on Tuesday’s Starting Point, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) was savaged by host Soledad O’Brien for daring to suggest the federal food stamp program should be one of the many programs that are trimmed in order to achieve spending cuts to avert the so-called fiscal cliff on January 1.

O'Brien predictably used a talking point that sounds a lot like the left-wing complaint that the GOP wants to "balance the budget on the backs of the poor":

People basically say why are you trying to balance the budget on people who are making under $23,000 a year? I think that range roughly is the national average for what a family of four would get on food stamps.  So 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.