Bunning Relents, Accepts Deal On Unemployment Bill

Is that it? He gets to offer an amendment that he could have offered five days ago? LMAO!

He spent days ticking points off the Republican brand and settled for this?

He didn't balk. The amendment deal should have never been offered. Offering deals just encourages more of these stunts.

The worst nihilist is one with nothing to lose. It's his swan song ego trip before retiring.

So why not let Durbin filibusterer and screw him on the earmarks?

Seriously.

It is so refreshing to see a member of the GOP standing strong in their convictions. [/snark]

Bunning, what a waste of human flesh and a parasite on society.

Bunning is cunning. He had the Dems on their knees and he wa filling their mouths.

They had to give back 24 billion in earmarks that they are telling you all about.

Harry Reid just got a pay-as-you-go bill passed last week andf then the first opportunity to adhere to his own bill comes along and he reneges. Bunning has the Dems number now and they can't move without his okay. LMAO.

Bunning voted no on pay-as-you-go legislation

Um, didn't I read on this very web site earlier that the reason for Bunning's whole filibuster stunt was because the bill didn't satisfy the pay-as-you-go legislation?

Republican reasoning causes the Blue Screen of Death to flash before my eyes.

Bunning "will be watching them closely and checking off the hypocrites one by one," something he practices every morning in front of his bathroom mirror. Fucking cur.

I like Bunning's ideas. When you can't pay for things don't do them. I expect he must also be against the countless wars we are involved in. No doubt he must be against letting medical insurers carrying off money at a rate we cannot keep up the payments on, and is probably also against contracting war to money guns.

I'm very disappointed that he got offered any deal. He either should have had to give up his fight unconditionally or stand up there objecting all night.

When are the Democrats going to actually message themselves right and call the Republicans' bluff? When are they going to have the you-know-whats to play hardball the way the Republicans do?

Yes, Bunning is retiring and has nothing to lose politically himself by acting like a petulant child here. But this was a golden opportunity for the Democrats to force the Republicans to actually follow through on their threats with little risk to themselves. They could have made great TV ads out of this to air during this year's elections. And instead they squandered the chance.

This could easily be used to beat McConnell over the head with next time he is up for election. Can't control a hypocrite member of his own delegation. What a buffoon - both of them.

Josh "helpfully" adds a post where he asks then answers. "If they could make Bunning actually filibuster, why not do the same on HCR?" Because they coud actually sustain a filibuster with 30 or 40 senators.

Well, no duh?

That's the point genius! LET them sustain it. Make them show the world what obstructionists they are. Make it crystal clear who the problem is.

Playing Harry's way (and apparently Josh's), all Joe Public understands is that the dems can't get anything done even with 58 votes in the Senate.

i've seen 2 year olds with more maturity. i think the tpm story is missing some details. i heard on the ed show that the dems threatened to stay up all night if he did not end this fillibuster, which the media will not call it what it is: a fillibuster. uk doesn't have a game tonight, so bunning should have been willing to stay and fight his fight. however, he is old and decrepit. he needs his sleep, ya no. the ammendment could have been done days ago. bunning was being hardheaded

The poster child for everything that is wrong with the dysfunctional United States Senate.

Whether or not you agree with his stand, one fucking United States Senator should not have that much power over the nation.

It's obscene.

It's contrary to the ideals of democratic and republican principles. And makes us a laughing stock to the entire world.

WTF?