GOP Senator Ceases Stomping on the Unemployed

by Deb Cupples |  Via Memeorandum, Roll Call tells us:

"Under increasing pressure from Democrats and members of his own party, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) Tuesday night abandoned his one-man filibuster of a one-month extension to unemployment benefits and other programs....

"The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday night on the short-term bill, which also includes payments for doctors and highway spending as well as other items.

"Thousands of federal highway employees who had been furloughed as a result of Bunning’s filibuster will likely be able to return to work later this week, and unemployment insurance checks will be sent to recipients after several days of delay."

There's something seriously wrong with a taxpayer-funded politician who would even think about acting in a way that would compound the troubles of our nation's unemployed.

Perhaps Sen. Bunning was not aware of the nation's unemployment rate, which was  9.7% in January (statistics for February are due out in a few days). 

Perhaps Sen. Bunning was not aware that nearly 15 million people are out of work (through no fault of their own)  -- and that most of them likely do not have enough money to treat unemployment as a welcome vacation.

When did it go out of fashion to empathize with others who are truly in need -- i.e., to have a heart?

Comments

[flowerplough]

Deb, you disgusting, liberal, syncophant, lickspittle liar, Senator Jim Bunning wasn't filibustering, he was refusing to join in a Unanimous Consent passage. Wants those who agree with Senate leadership that more borrowed money should be spent,(and we'll worry later about who to borrow it from) to put their names on the line. Anytime they wanted, Reid's Democrat Senate coulda voted and defeated Bunning and any other pay-go-principled objectors, but they didn't, because they're cowards wanting to hide behind a shield of faceless, anonymous unanimity. And you and Leibowitz/Stewart and all the other Democrats in the all-Democrat-all-the-time press refuse to tell the whole story. You attack Bunning.

4Q. 4Q all.

[deb cupples]

HI Flower,

What a nice way to greet me after so long. :) How've you been?

Notice that "filibuster" is NOT MY WORD: it was in the paragraphs that I'd QUOTED from Roll Call's article. Apparently, the author used "one-man filibuster" loosely.

If you don't like the way that Roll Call characterized Mr. Bunning's actions, you should definitely email, call or write Roll Call's editor -- and tell that person to be more careful about word choice.

[flowerplough]

:) No apologies. Saw Dick Liebowitz/Stewart giving Bunning the same "Stomping on the Unemployed" treatment on television - ain't got time for his boo-shit, or yours. We're borrowing money to give away, and our kids and grandkids are gonna pay it back, either thru confiscatory, Scandinavian tax rates, or, more likely, thru an intentionally-weakened dollar and double or triple-digit inflation. Maybe not Weimar, but certainly South/Cental American.

Ad if you ain't got no kids, guess then you ain't got no worries. Let's just have the government give everybody everything, yo? That's Bammy. That's you and yours.

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