March 02, 2010 07:00 PM
Bunning Accepts Deal, The Filibuster's Over
I don't think this mean old snake is used to being under the gun like this. I'm glad it's finally over:
Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.) one-man filibuster ended on Tuesday.
Bunning agreed to stop blocking legislation to extend benefits and COBRA health plan subsidies to the unemployed after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) agreed to allow him a vote on an amendment to pay for the $10 billion bill.
It’s the same deal Bunning was offered last week, but Bunning at the time decided to continue his fight. He’d been holding up an extension of the benefits since Thursday.
However, 205,000 households will now face delays in their unemployment checks. Thanks, Jim!
... he asked for a relief pitcher and Harry Reid said no.
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Someone to throw the balls while he rests
Or for him to have something to pee into?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Sounds less like filibustering that bladderbusting.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
where filibustering is the real thing, the members wear astronaut kits.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
hostage as a means of extorting something from the Senate leadership.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
...to happen again.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
with the lives of people. I don't know how they can look themselves in the mirror.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
you never have a problem with what you see in the mirror.
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"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Asshole of the Week award, plus lots of attention by the media.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
everyone who has lost their job recently, and that they have this monster to make their lives that much harder. :(
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
When one person can stop a majority from passing a bill, and that person isn't the president, the system is truly broken.
NOBODY 2012
What's the deal; he gets to teabag Liebermann?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Unlimited war and tax breaks for the rich. Sadly for him, he failed to convince enough people to screw the poor, sick and elderly as much as he would have liked, but two out of three ain't bad.
While unemployed, nothing makes me feel better than knowing brown people die in the Middle East just for me each day.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
...to make sure there are plenty of drugs for our own society's needs... brought in by the CIA.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
WHO ranks Colombian health care at 22 while the US gets its ass kicked at 37.
versus the near-pure local SA shit is worth fifteen points...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Why are Republicans such Dicks?
And shrivelled dessicated dicks at that...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
You just put an UGLY vision in my head and now I can't get rid of it! Ba-a-ad!
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
Democrats do not have any balls, which is a good thing, because they lack spines needed to support these balls.
How do I know this? Many intelligent commenters here at C&L repeat it endlessly. Hey, it works for FOX, why not the C&L commentariat.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
No wonder someone named a squeaky carrot toy after you.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YUuyzQDmjY
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpH34NQWGXA
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
George Strait!
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
by Asleep at the Wheel. The original, and best, is by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, but I like the animation.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
As a member of the Grow Pears Caucus I long ago joined pop in wondering why so many feel it necessary to explain all things political in terms applicable to the genitalia of men.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
So I'm going to venture to guess, that when people were just starting to explore the world, the guys who thought the world was flat were Republicans.
Clergy.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
205,000 families who have had their unemployment misery added to by this bastard. All that additional misery to satisfy this one man's spiteful, mean ego. What a crime. What a crime that this cruelty could be allowed to occur by the rest of the Senate.
The Senate allows this cruelty to occur in the name of it's outdated parlimentary rules. The Senators, Democrats and Republicans alike, have this fantasy that the Senate is some sort of great deliberative body. It's not. When was the last time anything of substance was debated there? When was the last time anybody's mind was changed about anything due to Senate debate and deliberation? 1968?
They're a bunch of vain, puffed-up, out-of-touch phony's whose insistence on holding their undemocratic, outdated parlimentary rules above the needs of the people is dragging the country further and further into a ditch.
The Senate needs to change it outdated, backward rules, period.
AMEN!!!
NOBODY 2012
It is based on a quote from a link to Chris Bowers at Open Left. Here is his quote:
Andrew Stettner of NELP says that, no matter what, some 205,000 people won't get a check this week, since it takes anywhere from two to six weeks for the states to get their bureaucracies geared up. "We've already crossed the Rubicon. Now, we have to play catch-up," he says.
Why would it take two to six weeks for states to do what they have been doing all along? If it takes them this long, a lot of state unemployment officials should be joining the ranks of the unemployed too.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
....say exactly why it shouldn't take two weeks due the disruption this mean old coot caused, but because you say so, Bowers is the one who is BSing. C'mooon, man; you can do better.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
is not Bowers. He is repeating unchallenged what Mr. Stettner says.
I am challenging why it takes state agencies two to six weeks to deal
with a two or three day delay.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
The point is that this cruelty is allowed to occur thanks to the Senates ridiculous, outdated parlimentary rules.
This delay has changed nothing politically. It has added to the misery of those people who will have their unemployment checks interrupted. And for what? To stroke this bitter old man's ego, that's what for.
And the real shame lies in the rest of the Senators allowing, hell celebrating, this insanity.
Great deliberative body my ass. Great body of out of callous, arrogant, touch with reality assholes is more like it.
The need for a House of Lords to represent states which were not part of the country when the constitution was written is an anachronism longin need of revisiting.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Someone needs to put up billboards with all the stalls, delays and obstructions the republicans have put up in the last year or so to providing relief to the American populace.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
has the two to six weeks needed to do what it has been doing for the last few months.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
"...Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) agreed to allow him a vote on an amendment to pay for the $10 billion bill."
Yet another cave by the Democrats.
What an arrogant asshole.
Hey, your delay to accept the same deal that was offered last week just cost the states a sh!tpile more money in administrative costs when they can least afford it. Yes sir, there's nothing like stopping and starting a program to throw bureaucracies into turmoil, cost extra money, and throw some fear into those damn unemployed layabouts while they eat their bon-bons and wait for their welfare checks.
Or, to put it more succinctly, you're a dick, Jim.
Not a cave by Reid at all--just a quick vote to get it over with, with everybody knowing Bunning would lose.
This was all the fault of Bunning, not the Democrats and not Reid. Some people criticize the Democratic leadership when they, the critics, have no idea what the Senate rules allow. For example, the earlier criticism here that Reid could have forced a vote Friday--he could not, because he was calling for the bill to be considered out of order (the sequence of when it would normally be considered) and that requires unanimous consent.
Reid has to fight every day against this party of no--I support him in this nearly-impossible job.
Watching him ,I sure got the feeling that he was drunk.Was it just me?
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
Bunning and America were sort of like a gay couple. Bunning was pitching and America, bent over, was catching.
. . . was it good for you, Jim?
I caught the end of Hardball last night and Tweety stood up for Bunning. I was shocked and I'm sure he will catch s for it. He said that America should have to pay for things not just borrow for everything. Seems he missed that this was not the issue on which to make this point. What a loser.
Maybe someone pointed out to Bunning that characterizing unemployment payments as a disincentive to work wasn't nearly as accurate as characterizing them as a disincentive to loot and riot and that the real disincentive to work was the fact that there are no jobs, that those jobs were shipped overseas.
a slimey POS. Clinically definable sociopath.
is that goofs like Bunning need to be placed, face-to-face, with the very people he's hurt, with the understanding that no security will be present to protect his elitist Rethug ass. After all, he's placed their well-being (and in many cases, lives) in jeopardy with his actions; why shouldn't he get a little taste?
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