Red/swing states most affected by Bunning's unemployment insurance ban

[Barack_America]

Number of people affected by lack of unemployment insurance funding, by state:

From TPM (their list is alphabetical):
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/labor-depts-solis-deplores-bunning-as-denying-help-for-millions-in-need.php?ref=fpa

1. NY--54,300

2. FL--49,600

3. GA--41,000

4. IL--28,200

5. TX-27,400

6. OH--16,200

7. IN--16,100

8. SC--14,400

9. VA--10,700

10. CO--9,000

11. MO--8,700

12. AZ--8,300

13. TN--7,500

14. AR--5,200

15. MD--4,700

16-20: IA, OK, KY, LA, AL

(more at the link)
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/labor-depts-solis-deplores-bunning-as-denying-help-for-millions-in-need.php?ref=fpa

Anybody else noticing an awful lot of red and swing states on that list? And remind me what the GOP is saying about people who collect unemployment insurance?

[Turbineguy]

1. Send the bill to the GOP.

He's your boy, you pay for it.

[Barack_America]

3. They certainly will pay for it.

I'm also struck by the number of those red and swing states that have retiring Republican Senators.

OH, FL, MO and of course KY, with Bunning himself. With the exception of KY, the others are swing states. And who know, maybe Bunning's antics will get KY swingin'! ;)

[midnight]

2. This is far reaching.....

[Barack_America]

4. Edited title.

[UTUSN]

5. K&R #3 n/t

[Barack_America]

6. Thanks.

It seems there are few of us who find these numbers interesting.

Oh well. I do wonder who Bunning is hurting in the long-run though.

[Duer 157099]

7. Ask not who Bunning is hurting, ask whom he is helping

It occurs to me that after he retires from the Senate, he may be pimping for the financial services sector.

Who will reap the financial gain from The Bunning Gap?

[kitkat65]

8. I was wondering about the financial gain to be reaped by the banks via

insufficient fund fees when this takes effect. Wonder if Bunning will receive some form of kickback for that.

Asshole.

[Duer 157099]

9. Exactly. Although I wish the kickback would be in the form

of a kick to the head which he so richly deserves

[Barack_America]

10. And people desperate to take out loans, regardless of the rates.

[tom_paine]

11. Not a problem. The Corporate M$M/RW Lie Fusion will cover it up

and make sure most of those states won't even know about Bunning's actions.

It will be sold, through AP and other Bushiganda outlets, with the "Democratic Ineffectuality" as the Dominant Narrative (as always, more than a grain of truth in Bushiganda lies-by-omission) but Bunning will be in the last paragraph, if at all.

Thus, when people consider this last, most won't even think of Bunning or the GOP-Bushie Party, just what Corporate M$M have told them.

Already one DUer has posted an article from Tulsa that omitted Bunning. I guarantee you there's lots more and all of Cable TV Infoganda.