Republican Jim Bunning Blocks Aid To The Unemployed
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Something lately has made the Republicans more odious than usual. Thursday night it was Sen. Jim Bunning, blocking unemployment aid for American workers just trying to keep their heads above water. Sen. Bunning has no such worries, he of course made his name as a baseball star, and as a senator he’s overly compensated for his work. Yet somehow he thinks its wise to obstruct the work of the US senate to help the people, following his Republican colleague’s attempt to once again cut taxes for the uber-rich.
We’ve always known the GOP is the party of the rich, for the rich, but now they’re publicly stepping on the throats of the middle and lower classes.
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Who the hell does this guy think he is holding Obama to his word? Noone does that!
Oh, right, the wingers think they actually do stuff to limit the deficit, not just punish the non-rich. Have a nice delusion!
According to former VP Richard Cheney, “Deficits don’t matter” but that’s only after you get people to re-elect you into office.
Dueling Republicans, an instrumental work for two banjos or 2 lying politicians…………..
I don’t know this Bunning fellow, so I checked out his official website. Oddly, there is no mention of this filibuster.
Instead, the top news is about him announcing funds for a volunteer fire department.
So, it seems, I do know this Bunning fellow. Another typical f’ing Republican.
Disingenuous post. “Senator Jim Bunning” … “insisted that the jobless pay due to run out Sunday night should be paid for rather than added to the deficit as an emergency.
Republicans don’t mind standing on principle, as long as they can stand on the backs of unemployed Americans at the same time.
I know, let’s tax the hell out of the rich to pay for it!
And thanks to Barack Obama, there’s more unemployed than ever.
If you keep taxing the hell out the rich:
* They won’t have any money left.
* The ones that do will pick up stakes and move to a more hospitable business climate.
All you’ve done is chased away business without solving the fundamental problem. Liberalism in a nutshell!!!
“If they don’t like the unemployment, go out and GET A JOB, you lazy bums!!!!!” -cons
Right – the wealthy, who’ve managed to take the lion’s share of the economy for the last 30 years, are now crying ‘poverty’ because they may be taxed a little more. I have no sympathy for such fickle folk. Let them ‘go Galt’ already, since it’s clear they love themselves and their image as ‘people of greatness’ more than they care about America. Believe it or not, we’ll be fine.
If you keep taxing the hell out the rich
They’ve never had it better tax-wise and they thanked us by screwing up the economy.
Nice try, O, but next time put on everything the man said. He wanted that part to be paid for before accepting it, not tacking it on a emergency funding. I know you are a MM guy, but, try to be honest when you take a shot at someone, OK?
I didn’t see the part where he asks for tax cuts to be paid for anywhere. I wonder if there’s a trend here.
We’ve always known the GOP is the party of the rich, for the rich, but now they’re publicly stepping on the throats of the middle and lower classes.
What do you care, Oliver? Most of those middle and lower class people are probably the same illiterate, mouth-breathing majority who are just too stupid to see the wisdom of Professor Obama’s plans for us (and should be denied the ability to vote, in your opinion).
What’s really too bad is that that tax schedule which led to the hugeass deficit surplus and paying off the debt is Socialism (worst than Hitler!) and would lead to paying off the debt too fast (according to Teh Maestro!). What a shame. Oh well, congrats to all the Lucky Duckies!
‘And thanks to Barack Obama, there’s more unemployed than ever’
Naturally, since his first year in office had no repercussions to deal with after 8 disastrous years from the previous administration; no failing wars to attend to, no economic catastrophes left behind and America’s standing in the world at an all time high.
Watching yesterday’s coverage exposed the Republican platform for the sorry, disinterested and malignant tumor of empty platitudes and failure that it is.
The Right is pathetic, and the entire planet was witness to it on live television.
OK, do you know where they are…sign me up! This is the MOST ignorant, arrogant and self-serving comment anyone can make. NO one wants to be on unemployment. I spend my entire day, every day sending out resumes, looking for work…nothing! I’m in Human Resources – Recruiting, I know how to source and look for work…there is none! Period!
I’ve gone from a nearly 6 figure income to a UI weekly check of $600/week. I have lost my home, I have been self sufficient my entire working life, single income family. I have lost my health care and was recently, 2 weeks ago, diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. I struggle with…hum, buying food – eat today (which I need to do to keep me alive), or paying for my 2 kinds of daily insulin (injected 6 x’s/day) which I need to live and survive. Not too mention the Endo and doctor visits to pay for weekly.
Don’t you ever make a comment like this. You have no idea…no clue.
You know where the jobs are, we’ll do anything. Sign us up!
Shame on you! You have no idea what we Americans are struggling with!
He wanted to use stimulus funds, which would hurt the economy by decreasing the amount of jobs created, increasing the amount of people needing unemployment benefits, which he is blocking. Because he’s worried about the deficit. Which does not directly affect the unemployed first thing Monday morning.
Regardless, the effect of his filibuster is that employment benefits are running out. Whatever his motivation, his actions are directly causing hardships on people who are already seeing a lot of hardship.
I don’t know the history of this bill, but he should have worked hard earlier in the process for this rather than the last minute, that is if he really gives a damn.
I believe you overlooked the quotation marks and -cons citation in that satirical comment.
Jim Bunning gets 3,300 dollars a week from the government
Own the Podium, jrfunky.
As Durbin pointed out, Jimmy wasn’t worried about the defecit when it came to Kentucky. What an asshole.
The Buck Stops Where? According to this guy, it stops at The President.
You must have been watching a different broadcast than I and the rest of America. On the show WE saw, it was the Republicans who had their shit together and the Democrats who were failing to make their case for nationalized health care and advocating Policy By Anecdote.
Obama: “My job is to solve problems, not to stand on the sidelines and harp and gripe”
Because everyone one knows that the number one way to fix the economy and reduce unemployment is to ram through a $1 trillion gov’t health care takeover that will raise premiums on people with existing coverage, drop a $700+/year “mandate” tax on people who are currently unable to afford insurance and raise taxes for all to pay for the gov’t overhead and inevitable subsidies.
Oh, and blame your predecessor. The Bart Simpson “It was that way when I found it” approach always fixes problems.
Shorter Dave in SoCal: Iraq Invasion and wildly regressive Tax Cuts were totally awesome and anyone who disagrees is a doody-head. Plus insurance rates will totally go up under Obama’s Socialist HitlerCare even though the CBO says they won’t. They’re doody-heads too. Obviously. Also.
You lie!
No, I don’t know of anything that would benefit the economy more than improving access to health care. If you do, please tell me about it.
Alternatively, you could also suggest a better way to improve access to health care (and if you say “tort reform”, an anvil will fall from the sky onto your head).
OW – “We’ve always known the GOP is the party of the rich, for the rich, but now they’re publicly stepping on the throats of the middle and lower classes.”
And yet that who brings them to power and fights their wars, time and again. Funny that.
It was satire btw.
So I guess you’re one of those “lucky duckies” that lives off the government huh? Wow, $600/week! That’s more than enough to afford to buy Cadillac’s and steaks. How smug you must be laughing at those underpaid, under appreciated bankers and corporate raiders. How dumb they must be to work and lobby the government when you can make the princely sum of $600 a week to stay home and deal with your illness.
(that was satire also)
Seriously, my heart goes out to you. Unfortunately you’re story is hardly unique.
Gosh, I wonder whom I should trust on this topic: a Nobel Prize Winning Economist or an anonymous blog commenter whose claim to fame is that he’s the Joey Chestnut of Unintentionally Ironic Links.* That’s a real dilemma.
*Someone else is going to have to click on this one. I learned my lesson a long time ago.
To be fair and balanced, the show YOU were watching was on Fox News. And dude, Fox News.
I know, right? It’s amazing what thirty years of AM radio and Fox News brainwashing will do to a voting bloc.
Of course, some of these folks were brainwashed by their church, and others are just plain old bigots. But hey, when you’re voting against your own best interests, who cares from whence the ignorance flows.
CBO: For 70% of Americans in 2016, who buy insurance through work, premiums would remain even or fall as much as 3%.
Most of those middle and lower class people are probably the same illiterate, mouth-breathing majority who are just too stupid to see the wisdom of Professor Obama’s plans for us (and should be denied the ability to vote, in your opinion).
No one makes a strawman sit up and beg like you do. They do everything you want them to, for all the most venal of reasons, and you can even read their minds. The fact that they only exist in your fevered imagination and do not resemble anyone who ever lived is a feature, not a bug.
Please point out any actual evidence or an opinion from an identifiable person in your rant about who O-Dub would deny the vote to.
He wanted that part to be paid for before accepting it, not tacking it on a emergency funding.
You mean like the way Republicans pay for invasions? Oh wait. Bad example.
ram through a $1 trillion gov’t health care takeover that will raise premiums on people with existing coverage, drop a $700+/year “mandate” tax on people who are currently unable to afford insurance and raise taxes for all
Wow! Five lies and the sentence isn’t even finished yet.
Impressive!
Hahaaa! The part Farris “forgot” to include:
Shocker. Quaker in a Basement reads SaveFarris’s links so I don’t have to. It’s truly remarkable how consistently and unintentionally ironic SF’s links are. Truly. Kudos to you, SaveFarris.
The question was “Are insurance rates going up?”, not “who’s paying for them?”
You guys think you’re so clever…
Clever? You post a link. I read it. What’s clever about that?
Alternative SaveFarris: And I would have gotten away with is too, if it weren’t for you clever kids and your accursed reading comprehension.
I’m sure we can find the money to fund extending unemployment benefits. That would satisfy Bunning, right? Let’s start with cutting 15 billion dollars worth of federal funds flowing to Kentucky. After all, Kentucky is one of those states that receives than what they pay into the treasury.
Nertz. Screwed up the link.
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2004/09/red_states_feed.html
Anyway, Kentucky is one of those tax debtor states.
Bunning’s an uber-conservative reputed for being a loony tune. He may not be sane. Seriously. These things happen. But it’s a real shame when it happens in the Republican party, since it hides insanity so well. Makes it just that much harder for the little white van to come and take Bunning away without incident.
Sarah, Thank you so much for posting your story, the story of so many Americans that are hurting, and not giving up. You are right about the arrogance of SaveFarris. I am always flawed about the lack of human compassion in his posts. To him it’s a game of “our team wins” and negates the effect these decisions have on the lives of human beings. But it’s not a game when a parent takes their four year old into the emergency room for a high fever and finds out that its leukemia and they have no health insurance to treat a disease that would have been discovered earlier had they had medical coverage. Or the child crying as her mother is being buried because she died from a breast cancer that could have been diagnosed and treated if only there was medical coverage to have the mammogram to discover an early stage cancer. Or, the child that repeats fifth grade twice because their family has been evicted from their home and has to move from shelter to shelter thereby changing school districts. Or the family having to eat one and if lucky two meals a day not from their own kitchen table, but from church basements and food pantries having long forgotten the taste of that special “mommy” meal. There is real pain in the heart of a person who knows that they no longer have a key to open their own front door. To the people having to deal with these situations it is not a game. And we proud liberals agree, that all our lives could be made better by realizing we live in a world community, where greed and narcissism hurts us all, US ALL. I would bet in all of those conservatives claiming the Christian Bible, we would see highlighted in yellow “Love your neighbor as yourself, there is no greater commandment than this”.
Sarah, Good luck GURL….And keep the faith.
I bet this SOB Bunning voted for all of Bush’s budgets. You remeber the ones that put us 100′s of billions in debt every year while cutting taxes to the top 5% wealthest people. I am sure he is really worried about the defecit. What a 2 faced hypacritical asshole. I guess I know where the revolution will start when the millions of people that lose their unemployment start starving in the street.
Yes tax the wealthy, they get all kind of kickbacks and tax deductions we Middle class don’t. Definitely the poor don’t but oh by the way rich don’t care about their fellow Americans period!! I’m worried now about the unemployed who will loose their homes and cars if they haven’t already. I don’t like the Healthcare reform that Obama and dems are trying to drive down our throats either, will not work!! If the Gop’s had their way like Lamar Alexander scrap it and DO NOTHING BECAUSE WE KNOW THE GOP’S ARE FUNDED BY INSURANCE COMPANIES LOBBYIST. Congress bunch is a do nothing idiots they don’t know how to tie their shoes and definitely don’t have a clue on the right thing to do for Americans..they toooo are so greedy all of them just about!!!!
Wait really- so when the President explained to Cantor that regulations do add to costs but do so in a necessary manner but comparing it to regulations on Food and Drugs you thought the GOP got the better of the exchange.