Washington Democrats have evidently decided that it’s more important to fund the First Lady’s anti-obesity project than provide food to the poor and unemployed.

The Hill reports that Congress will fund Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative by cutting appropriations Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. What is SNAP? It’s more commonly known as the food stamp program.

Democrats who reluctantly slashed a food stamp program to fund a state aid bill may have to do so again to pay for a top priority of first lady Michelle Obama.

The House will soon consider an $8 billion child nutrition bill that’s at the center of the first lady’s “Let’s Move” initiative. Before leaving for the summer recess, the Senate passed a smaller version of the legislation that is paid for by trimming the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps.

The proposed cuts would come on top of a 13.6 percent food stamp reduction in the $26 billion Medicaid and education state funding bill that President Obama signed this week.

Food stamps have made multiple appearances on the fiscal chopping block because Democrats have few other places to turn to offset the cost of legislation.

Unemployment lingers at 9.5%, the employment situation appears to be getting worse, personal income is down, and nearly one in eight Americans rely on the food stamp program for regular meals. And so Washington Democrats have decided that we should respond by cutting the food stamp program and fighting obesity. Brilliant.

As for that last paragraph, is that a joke? We have a $1.4 trillion annual deficit and we fund every pork barrel project under the sun. We couldn’t find any other initiative to cut before the food stamp program? Uh huh. Let me translate. Democrats were unwilling to de-fund their own pet projects, so they tapped into the food stamp appropriation instead.

Ed Morrissey lays out the stupidity:

Eight billion dollars in a $3.8 trillion budget amounts to … 0.21%. What about the other 99.79% of federal spending? And let’s not forget that last year’s omnibus budget bill that completed the FY2010 budget contained in itself over $17 billion in earmarks. I guess Congress gets to pork out while the poor and unemployed sacrifice.

Exit question: Why do Democrats hate the unemployed and poor? Why won’t they think of the children?