Democrats On Unemployment Blockage: Thank You, Jim Bunning

Van Hollen said Bunning's action has done far more to make the Democrats' point that the GOP is holding up the works in Washington.

It's nice to think so, but I saw two separate reports on this and neither report mentioned the senator or the party that they were from (forgot what channels the reports were on).

Join the Act.ly petition on Twitter telling Bunning and Senate Republicans to stop holding unemployed Americans hostage to their obstructionist agenda: http://act.ly/1qo

Ooh, I feel a sternly-written letter coming on!

It's the Democrats in the Senate that have the blockage. Jeez Louise, stop yur yappin' and stand up for the working people of America for cryin' out loud. Standing at center court in front of cameras is not the equivalent of scoring. Actually doing something like breaking the fillibuster and keeping the Senate in session until the babies run out of diapers will score points. Otherwise you're just another showboating weasel.

If more Senators' livelihoods were at risk, they'd do the right thing. These fatcats all live off lobbyist and industry money, and all they have to do is wring their hands and pretend they can't do anything about it.

Of course, that's a separate issue from the fact that sociopathic hypertribalist authoritarians run the Republican Party...

Anyone who has a relative or friend affected by any program held up by Bunning should deluge their Congresscritters (of either party) and moderate to right-wing media outlets with their harrowing stories. (No need to tell story to progressives. They already know.)

I love how everyone commenting on here forgets that he is objecting because passing the extenstion would go against the highly touted PAYGO provision that this democrat congress was so proud of.

Fuck the phones how about getting in front of camera

R extremism--the gift that keeps on giving. However much the Ds make a hash of things, the Rs always manage to pull them back from the brink with some reactionary overreach that makes the political middle think twice about casting their lot with looney tunes. Thanks for throwing us this big softball, Senator Bunning.

Bunning is a few bricks shy of a full load and kudos to Mitch McConnell for taking the political risk involved in putting him out to pasture. Pity you won't find Harry Reid performing any similar public service with the droolers and clowns in his cadre.

That said, even a stopped clock is right twice a day...and Bunning has nailed this right on. The issue isn't whether these extensions should be made but how to pay for them. Bunning wants to pay for them out of already appropriated but unutilized "stimulus" funds rather than increasing the deficit. Makes perfect sense.

So what are these Democrats doing? They have decided that they have a real winner here. On the one hand, they get to do their favorite thing...appropriate more money they don't have. And then they get to complain about a mythological "crisis" created by Bunning that they know doesn't exist and is scheduled to be rectified on a PERMANENT basis later this week. RETROACTIVE TO 1 March.

And it looks like that line of BS is working with their usual tools and lemmings, to judge by some of the comments here. Unfortunately for them, these same folks were already in the tank for their agenda and knowlegeable observors cannot be so easily fooled.