Sen. Bunning’s Three Strikes: Party of “No,” Privilege and Mean

Not surprised at all.
I’m glad for everybody that McConnell was finally able to throw Bunning under the bus. The senate doesn’t deserve another 6 years of this guy.

And let’s not forget that the good Senator is blocking the extension to National Flood Insurance Program.
Maybe he doesn’t know that there are rivers in KY. And “moochers” living along those rivers who are now unprotected.
Nothing new from our friends on the radical right.

I believe he is retiring, but he ought to do it IMMEDIATELY, if not sooner. Asshole.

This is not an incident covered by Pay-Go. Pay-Go applies to permanent increases, not supplementals or emergency measures. The extension of the unemployment benefits measure which just expired is part of the stimulus package, and is a temporary measure put in place to address our current extraordinarily high unemployment rates.
I really don’t blame you for believing all the crapola on this point – it’s everywhere in the media. But when even his Republican colleagues are backing away from him, you might want to do a little more research before you decide that the Dems are the bad guys here. Bunning’s a loon who voted against reinstating the Pay-Go rules; I’d call his current fanaticism on the subject a clear example of malicious obedience.

The good Senator’s Pay-Go point being, the needed monies are out there in the form of already-appropriated – if not existing as, you know, real money – funding that Dems are holding back for their 2012 vote-buying. This ‘emergency allocation’ is simply another way forcing this nation even further into debt, there being now no existing money available to pay for these new allocations, except, you know, with more borrowing from the bemused Chinese and/or stealing from the grand kids.
I’m glad this three-day mini-issue asploded. It allows us to point out exactly who the people are who are driving this nation to bankruptcy with their kids-in-a-candy-store spending sprees. And who are enemies are, the gluttonous, ravenous, never-satisfied Democrats.
I’m looking at you, kids.

And as was pointed out on Rachel Maddow’s show last night, Jim Bunning voted against ‘pay-go.’ Which can also be fact checked at Congress.org or GovTrack.us or Open Congress.