This is the evil Senator Jim Bunning. He is a Republican and is retiring this year. His GOP pals are angry with him because he is giving the Dems ammunition in their PR campaign against the GOP.
He is holding up the "emergency" funding of unemployment benefits of 1 million out of work Americans and the Dems are pretending that they, alone, really really really care about the unemployed.
The problem with that is this: they (the Dems) have done next to nothing to see to it that jobs are created in the private sector.
But more than this, there is the fact that just last week, Obama bragged about the Democrats' move to pass "pay-go." We saw him on national television, probably for the third time that day, trying to look serious about balancing the budget.
The problem with that? With the very first bill to come to the Senate floor following the passage of "pay-go," the Dems introduce a bill they cannot pay for. Literally, on one day they do "this" and the next day, they do "that.
And Jim Bunning ? He wants to help the unemployed; he just wants the Dems to figure out how they are going to pay for it.
"But this is an EMERGENCY !! We have to act NOW." That is what the Democrats are saying. Anyone heard this one, before ? Senator Bunning is asking, "Are you all serious about 'pay go' or not? Everything around here is an 'emergency'," And we agree. As an addendum, FoxNews is reporting that NO benefits will be lost in all this haggling.
Our government, under the Obama Administration, has resorted to nothing but game playing. It truly is disgusting.
Update: 11:33 am - a deal is being worked out as we write to pay for this bill !! It looks like Bunning comes out the winner with the offer of three amendments that will pay for this funding. Bunning has just announced that two of the three amendments have already seen agreement.
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He is holding up the "emergency" funding of unemployment benefits of 1 million out of work Americans and the Dems are pretending that they, alone, really really really care about the unemployed.
The problem with that is this: they (the Dems) have done next to nothing to see to it that jobs are created in the private sector.
But more than this, there is the fact that just last week, Obama bragged about the Democrats' move to pass "pay-go." We saw him on national television, probably for the third time that day, trying to look serious about balancing the budget.
The problem with that? With the very first bill to come to the Senate floor following the passage of "pay-go," the Dems introduce a bill they cannot pay for. Literally, on one day they do "this" and the next day, they do "that.
And Jim Bunning ? He wants to help the unemployed; he just wants the Dems to figure out how they are going to pay for it.
"But this is an EMERGENCY !! We have to act NOW." That is what the Democrats are saying. Anyone heard this one, before ? Senator Bunning is asking, "Are you all serious about 'pay go' or not? Everything around here is an 'emergency'," And we agree. As an addendum, FoxNews is reporting that NO benefits will be lost in all this haggling.
Our government, under the Obama Administration, has resorted to nothing but game playing. It truly is disgusting.
Update: 11:33 am - a deal is being worked out as we write to pay for this bill !! It looks like Bunning comes out the winner with the offer of three amendments that will pay for this funding. Bunning has just announced that two of the three amendments have already seen agreement.
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