Bunning: My Obstruction Of Unemployment Extension Made Me Miss My Basketball Game

How about this: Everybody in the 49 states outside of Kentucky gets their jobless benefits.

"How about this: Everybody in the 49 states outside of Kentucky gets their jobless benefits."

Excellent suggestion. And while we're at it, let's strip all US Senators of both parties of their government-provided health care and make them deal with medical costs the same way that millions of Americans have to.

That's not really his excuse is it? The story should have ended right there. There needs to be a ridiculous rule to deal with this ridiculous rule. Like maybe the other 99 senators could give this guy a giant wedgie & then pull his shorts & head out of his ass. Makes about as much sense.

But, who won the game?

The really sad thing is that the Democrats—including Obama—will be absolutely unable or unwilling to use this to their political advantage. It's a target-rich environment out there, but the Dems are hunkered down in their foxholes, quivering and pissing their pants, ignoring the ammunition lying all around them.

There are a lot more than 1.5 people involved in this decision. If you were on regular UI right now, your benefits would end after 26 weeks, no extensions. If you were on the tier 1 extension that ends after Feb 25, you will not get another extension; likewise with the tiers 2 & 3 extensions.

Tens of millions of people are affected by this extension all over the country. At least a million in every state that currently has 10% unemployment or higher. The 1.5 million are only the ones losing their coverage next week. Millions more will lose their coverage in the next month or two.

Which makes me wonder if they actually called a filibuster, would any Republicans show up? Especially if the Democrats did it on a night when there was something good on TV?

Tough Shit?!?!? Oh that is IT! I have had it with these old assh***s running our Gov't. It's not a race thing, but COME ON! I am a white woman in her 30's...I couldn't vote in the 1800's, and in the 50's & 60's black people could not drink from water fountains or look at a white woman...we can't remember it as much as THEY CAN..and I can't stand it anymore! But it's not just that anymore...it's RICH vs. NOT RICH!!! Think about it: Creepy OLD rich men with their old person "that's how I am" attitudes, objecting to this and that, can't wait for vacation, don't want to help ANY minorities...they come from a time (they are OLD, OLD, OLD) where white people used to doing whatever they wanted in Gov't, running it their way. Dammit get them OUT OF OFFICE!!! Replace them with any person of any race... any sexual orientation I DON"T CARE...just someone who lives in the now for God's sake! We are all sick and tired of this, that's one reason we elected Obama. But how the hell can we get anything done with this "tough shit" attitude of an old, southern idiot who will stop millions of people from paying rent, eating...having insurance because he wants a tax break for the property of millionaires that are DEAD?!? Yeah, cause those were his freaking friends when they were alive!? McCain looked 150 years old in that debate on healthcare...he's a hero...but he's an OLD hero!!!! OUT OF TOUCH!!!!!!
Remember during the campaign (hey McCain brought the campaign thing back into the mix)..
anyway, remember McCain said a family that is upper middle class status makes 5 MILLION a year? WTF? This is how they thinkg...millionaires and then....everyone else. WE NEED TO MARCH ON THIS...in....um....MARCH! Pardon the pun. I am just sooooo ready to go out there with a neon sign and protest!!!

I hope I didn't sound too nutty eveyone, just SO pissed off...I am no longer with any party, I am an independant. Enough is ENOUGH from both sides.

My previous typing is atrocious..apologies to all.

Why in the fuck is this corrupt piece of shit not being censured or admonished for his deliberate action to deprive people of their benfits?

man bunning is such an asshole. Andd the senate is really dysfunctional. 99 yes votes and the ONE no vote is enough to stop the legislation

this is so fucking stupid

And then there where 2!

GOP Rep. Dean Heller claims extending unemployment benefits is creating ‘hobos.’
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is trying to pass an extension of unemployment benefits, but is facing resistance from Republicans who are throwing up procedural hurdles and trying to use the extension as leverage to push through a tax cut for the wealthiest families in the country.

Heller said the current economic downturn and policies may bring back the hobos of the Great Depression, people who wandered the country taking odd jobs. He said a study found that people who are out of work longer than two years have only a 50 percent chance of getting back into the workforce. “I believe there should be a federal safety net,” Heller said, but he questioned the wisdom of extending unemployment benefits yet again to a total of 24 months, which Congress is doing. “Is the government now creating hobos?” he asked.

1.1 million workers are due to have their benefits expire next month, and 5 million will see their benefits disappear by June. There are currently six unemployed workers for every job opening, and even without compensating for population increases, 350,000 jobs a month would need to be generated for two full years just to make up the jobs lost in the recession.

So someone looking for work and getting help to look for work is a hobo?
Does he even know the definition, well here it is

One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood

And this is what he says is the reason we dont need to extend umemployment extention.
Am I to believe he wants or dont wants hobo's
If people don't wake up or stand up we are in real trouble if the rubs take back the senate

So far...
Start over on Health Care Reform
Don't extend Unemployment benefits
Privatlize Social Security
Phase Out Medicare
Only let people buy insurance when they go to the doctor, but save for it first, with the non-employment benifits they dont want you to have...Unfreak'n beliveable.

Good thing for him he is not running for re-election, so he won't have to be inconvenienced in this way for much longer.

Bunning, you're so out of touch with the American people that it's a blessing you are retiring. I hope the person who replaces you actually has a soul for the hurting and the less fortunate right now, because obviously YOU DON'T!! I've been unemployed for 11 months. I was a professional computer tech for Chrysler. I even wrote and produced a short movie about a person who lost everything during this recession. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1595023/

Gee. Poor Bunning had to miss a basketball game so he could do his JOB. The job Americans pay him to do.

There are millions of people out there who would gladly put up with missing a sporting event if it meant they had a job to go to. Bunning is a festering boil on the ass of the America. Just shameful.

Hang tough, Jim.

The bastards have in excess of $500bn sitting there from the non-stimulating stimulus.

They’ve got the money, why do they need more? Make them use it.

It's a shame some people may suffer for a couple of days. But the Dems could have scheduled this vote sooner, Harry could have foregone his tantrum, and, remember, the money is just sitting there.

We're currently on track (according to the CBO) to be $1,300,000,000,000 in the hole regardless, with a substantial percentage of government spending still being flushed down the war toilet, and this motherfucker whines about unemployment payments...

Well, even though I've never voted for either one of them, as a Kentuckian I must offer my deepest apologies to the nation for the twin plagues of Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning.

Bunning isn't just one of the crankiest senators, he's probably the stupidest, a nose ahead of Oklahoma's titans of idiocy.

The good news for America is that this dumbass will be out of office come next January because he's retiring. Maybe we can get some legislation to terminate Senate retirement payments to members who can't score more than a 50 on an IQ test.

Well I just want to thank Harry Reid for stripping the unemployment benefits out of the jobs bill. Thanks Harry, you're outta here in November, asshole.

There is absolutely no more dangerous political figure in the world than a lame duck U.S. Senator. Absolutely no accountability and incredible leverage to screw things up.

UPDATE: The Courier-Journal of Louisville reports today that both of the Rethuglicans running to fill Bunning's seat supported the idiot's position on this. So ... unless a Democrat wins this fall, Kentucky's contribution to the U.S. Senate won't get much better next year.

How about we offer a game between KY and SC at Madison Square Garden if he will support a single payer plan? I mean we obviously now know what his priorities are.

This man is blocking any thing to do with the people. What should happen? This man needs to be removed from office. But not only that his future earnings need to be stopped, his name needs to stricken from the Senate and he needs to be placed in front of the TV to watch his beloved game, this is more important to him then the people he was elected to represent. I personal elect to remove him from office, with all past, present, and future privileges (including pensions, earnings, etc.) being revoked. We the people have the power.

So there is nothing that can be done to pass this bill or do we have till the end of today?