Sen. Jim Bunning agrees to allow vote
Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. heads for the weekly caucus lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. Bunning has again blocked the U.S. Senate from extending unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
Senator Jim Bunning has struck an agreement with Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid to allow a vote on the unemployment extension bill later tonight. The bill will pass overwhelmingly.
Under the deal, Senator Reid agreed to allow a vote on a measure to off-set the bill’s $10 billion cost with cuts in other programs. The off-set measure is expected to fail. So, despite Bunning’s efforts, the unemployment extension bill will not be paid for.
Bunning’s obstruction, however, continues on another front: Democrats say he has put a hold on all pending presidential nominations, effectively blocking “several dozen” of President Obama’s nomations.
Full story: Sen. Bunning Agrees to Allow Vote on Unemployment Extension Bill – The World Newser
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Wow. I can’t believe you guys are actually defending this hypocrite fossil. NOW he cares about the deficit? Just look at HIS RECORD of voting for unpaid for bills.
If they don’t find a way to pay for this isn’t that illegal since they passed paygo into law?
The thing that deflates me about this whole thing is that republicans seemed unwilling to find the savings. That is going to be the job over the next few years. They seem to have failed this. I expect democrats to fail this. I was hoping for some “reborn conservatism” among republicans but it seems like Dennis Hastert’s spirit is alive and well.
The other thing that bugged me is all the lament about furloughed federal employees. We need to furlough tens of thousands and people need to get that.
It is hardly fair to say Sen. Bunning broke. What Sen. Bunning did was put all the budget breakers now on record for November.
For those who say this good man “wimped out” reveal ignorance in political strategy. The Senator made the Conservative point without being slapped around without any support.
I would wager that no one slamming him here phoned his office nor phoned their Senators demanding they support Sen. Bunning.
Sen. Bunning is courageous and a true American Patriot. He has implement a strategy which the right can use. Scott Brown got into Obama’s bed in the first vote. Sen. Bunning has now held up this bill to show all those traitors on record for people to vote and to hold up all of Obama’s Marxist lunatic justices.
That is what winning looks like as a minority of 1 Patriot in the Senate with Daily Caller slamming him and people making comments who did not show up to help him.
“I would wager that no one slamming him here phoned his office nor phoned their Senators demanding they support Sen. Bunning.”
Well, considering that I didn’t support him at all, I think that statement is safe. He could have made his point in a number of different ways without screwing with people who’ve lost their job through no fault of their own. We’re looking at close to 20% unemployment/underemployment here and no one is hiring, which means that facing a loss of your unemployment check could mean someone not being able to pay their bills for the month (even if it’s just a week). That means late fees (which you already can’t afford) and a bigger hit to your credit rating (which can keep you from getting a job).
How about Bunning make his point on someone else’s back and get off of ours? I didn’t vote for Obama, I didn’t support the stimulus, and I didn’t threaten to raise business taxes (which is what caused the company I worked for to fold). Since I’m doing everything possible to keep from having to declare bankruptcy and add to our current debt problem, I’d appreciate it if the Republicans didn’t decide to step on my neck to make their political hay.
wimped out…