Bunning's callous grandstanding

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http://www.kentucky.com/2010/03/02/1163508/bunnings-callous-grandstanding.html

As long as Republicans were in charge, Sen. Jim Bunning was OK with trading a surplus for a deficit. He voted to put two wars, tax cuts and a Medicare drug benefit on the nation's credit card.

Now that Republicans are no longer in charge, Bunning is drawing the line on deficit spending. He's doing it in a way that shows callous contempt for the more than one in 10 working Kentuckians whose jobs disappeared in the economic meltdown.

We've become accustomed to bizarre, egocentric behavior from Bunning. So it wasn't all that surprising when he single-handedly blocked an unemployment benefits extension for a million people, including 119,230 in Kentucky, whose benefits run out this year. About 14,000 Kentuckians will exhaust their benefits in two weeks without the extension.

Bunning's filibuster also denies newly laid-off workers help paying for health insurance. It halts road and bridge projects around the country by furloughing 2,000 federal transportation employees, stops reimbursements to state highway programs and cuts Medicare payments to doctors.

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How can one man be so evil as to grind his heel into the fingers of those barely hanging on to their homes, their, sanity, their lives.

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1. One of the Dem senators (Whitehouse? Cardin?) made a good point this morning

about how Bunning is claiming that it's a "principle" with him (LOL! as if) but that Bunning has been completely inconsistent with his application of his so-called principle so therefore it's not actually a principle at all, it's merely selfish posturing.

Bunning is a big piece of shit imho.

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2. I saw Franken say that. It is obviously true.

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3. I think Franken said that.

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5. He probably did, but he wasn't the one I saw

(I hate talking points, no matter which side uses them. Can't they just be original? But that's a tangent)

I'm pretty sure it was either Ben Cardin or Sheldon Whitehouse, because those were the only ones I recall from the brief time I was watching today.

I also hate how they all keep throwing in the phrase "through no fault of their own" when they talk of the unemployed, as though they sanction this culture of blame that we live in.

But I have so many irritants these days it's hard to focus on just one or a few, lol

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7. It was Whitehouse...

I saw it as well...I think his quote was something like, 'it cannot be a principle when it is used selectively.'

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4. I'm thinking about writing a letter of protest to the Baseball Hall of Fame

The current actions of this individual do not deserve the honor of being in the Baseball Hall of Fame. I do not want my children, my grandchildren or any child looking up to this individual as a role model. His callous indifference to people and families and children who have lost their only source of income during these hard times in my opinion, disqualifies and voids any accomplishment he may have made on the baseball field. This is the most egregious example of un-sportsman-like conduct. Your behavior on and off the field should set an example and his example puts a stain on baseball and the many decent, honorable and compassionate men who truly deserve that honor. Remove his name. Didn't they keep Pete Rose from becoming eligible for the HOF because of betting, well this man is betting on the lives of American's, and he's betting for them to lose.

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6. This is really sick too

http://mediamatters.org/research/201003020021?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mediamatters%2Flatest+%28Media+Matters+-+Latest+Items%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher