99 in Agreement, One Objection
Posted in In the News, Videos on March 2nd, 2010 - 8:45 am Comments Off
Jim Bunning is senile, isn’t he? Or is he just crazy? What the hell is this guy’s problem?! Thanks to his zeal in obstructing the will of the other 99 senators two thousand federal employees are now on unpaid furlough, doctors will be reimbursed for Medicare fees twenty-one percent less, many road and construction projects across the country have been put on hold, and an estimated 1.2 million people on the unemployment rolls will cease to have unemployment checks and COBRA extensions. One senator has done this, and that one senator is Jim Bunning.
The Daily Show did a bit on it last night which is worth seeing, as Daily Show clips usually are. Though it’s really hard to laugh at anything about this situation.
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Bunning’s fellow Republicans seem more than happy to have a fall guy to stand in front of cameras screaming “no” as loudly as he can, so they don’t have to do so. None of them have suggested that perhaps now is not the time or the place to insist the budget be balanced before any more spending is done to keep people from becoming unemployed or going hungry once they are. Not a one has had anything to say about his nonstop objections to something every one of them has agreed needs to be done. Now why would that be?
Most likely because the current crop of Republicans enjoy clogging up the works in some kind of vain attempt to make Obama look like the worst president the US has ever had. They seem to care very little about Americans. If they did, they would be pointing out to Mr. Bunning that every last one of them has agreed to passing this measure, to keep people employed and to keep the unemployed people on unemployment, and they would be putting pressure on him to pipe down and stop what he is doing. Yet, they don’t. Must be nice for them to be able to obstruct something they claim to support by pointing at the crazy guy and saying “Hey, it’s not us! It’s that guy over there!”
And no one senator should have so much power. No one person should ever have so much power. This seems to be a flaw in the process, and it needs to be fixed.







