Leading Republicans Rush To Bunning's Defense (VIDEO)

Kyl also defended Bunning on Fox News Sunday.

"All Senator Bunning was saying quite correctly it ought to be paid for," Kyl told Fox News' Chris Wallace.

With Bunning flipping off ABC reporters and using "tough shit" as his defense of his actions to Senate Democrats, maybe they'd be better off not aligning themselves too closely with this guy. Reports so far have made Bunning look like a loose cannon acting outside where the Republicans can control him, but at some point Bunning will start to look like he's just doing what the Republican leadership wants.

"There are generations of Iraqi children that need the funding supported by our military expedition in that country! How can the Democrats pretend to care about them with the criminal overspending being proposed on the welfare queens and never-do-wells, like my fellow people of Kentucky!"

Thanks, John Kyl. Now we can all say it's the RepublicanS plural blocking this bill. If the minority whip is standing up for him, there's no way it's just one rogue senator (no matter how big a stinking pile of *#%* that one senator may be).

Every Democrat should be screaming from the rooftops about the obstructionism of the Republican Party. All of 'em.

Stay classy, Republicans.

This reminds me of when the repubs closed down government over the same shamified idea. They lost big-time because of it. In fact, the National Gallery of Art's Impressionist show was shut down because of it (which as I recall was the biggest stink about the whole thing).

Now they are screwing regular people (a great many of them republicans, I would guess), and using the hypocritical stance that they suddenly care about spending. Paul Begalia had the goods on Bunning -- all the unpaid for pork he has voted for, and of course the wars.

OK, Dems! We have the ammunition! Are we going to blow ourselves up with it, or are we going to use it?

Why is everyone upset about this I mean they had the same tough approach to the Wall street Banksters and bank banksters when they gave them billions of dollars to save them from the greedy and selfish consumers and workers of america didn't they. THey did find the money to cut from other areas before they gave it to AIG right they did do that didn't they????????

Are they dumb enough to think this is benign neglect? Do they think Bunning is digging his own grave and they don't want to interrupt him? The 'pukes are so emboldened, they think every shit thing they do is golden. How long before the ill-will stick like eel ooze?

I'm beginning to understand why the Dems are trying to downplay this rather than shout it from the rooftops.

They understand that the longer it goes on, the more the media plays it as a case of "Senate gridlock" (rather than GOP obstructionism), which reinforces the impression that the system is hopelessly broken, which fuels anti-incumbent rage among the vast majority of voters who have only a vague notion of what is really happening. And they're not only incumbents, they're the incumbents who are at least notionally in charge.

And the Republicans are quietly supporting Sen. Jock Strap for the very same reason.

We've reached the point where the smartest political tactic for the opposition is to trash the process completely -- so that the voters will put them back into power, so that they can be completely trashed in turn (assuming the Dems have the stomach for it.)

It appears our political system has passed from surrealism into pure nihilism.