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babylonsister

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Tue Mar-02-10 10:27 AM
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Jim Bunning voted NO on Pay-As-You-Go

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Jim Bunning voted NO on Pay-As-You-Go
by Mohner

Mon Mar 01, 2010 at 09:48:27 PM PST

In case there's anyone left who still had a doubt that the GOP is the "Party of No", Jim Bunning puts you straight -- it's all about the obstruction. Bunning voted NO on the Pay-as-you-Go bill.

Here is a List of the YEA/NAY votes for the Senate version of "Pay as you Go", the bill that would require the federal government to pay for future spending increases. To be "deficit neutral".

This vote was taken January 28, 2010. A little over a month ago.

You would think that a man as interested in paying for $10 Billion worth of spending on unemployment extensions and construction spending, as Jim Bunning apparently is, would jump at the chance to make sure that the federal government would pay its way going forward. Alas, you are giving WAY too much credit to the idea of rationality, a sense of shame, and general human decency. Jim Bunning voted NO on Pay-as-you-Go.

With a straight human face, and with the sheer human pain of missing a college basketball game, Jim Bunning declared that he would stop a $10 Billion stop-gap spending bill from going forward. And yet he voted against Pay-as-you-Go.

This should be the other shoe dropping. This isn't about deficits, or healthcare, or anything. It's about VOTING AGAINST WHATEVER the Obama Administration proposes, and to do anything at all to obstruct, wherever the GOP can.

Rachel Maddow said it best: They're not ashamed. They don't have that gene. They don't share the most basic sense of shame that even infants have.

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HughMoran

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Tue Mar-02-10 10:31 AM
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1. It's ONLY about winning with the Republicans

What purpose do they serve anyway? The Republican party should be eliminated as it serves no purpose in our society - unless fomenting fear and anger is now a good thing.

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Demit

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Tue Mar-02-10 10:39 AM
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2. Jim Bunning is a bitter old man.

I'm sorry I was proud of him when he pitched the perfect game for the Phillies. I think he's bitter that he didn't make the big bucks from baseball and it's made him mean. Logic doesn't matter when you're old & mean & have power. I hope his bitterness eats him up slowly till the end of his days. He will have no legacy but his meanness.

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liberal N proud

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Tue Mar-02-10 10:40 AM
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3. The only reason he blocked this recent bill is to help the GOP in November

They see this as an opportunity to make the government look like it is broken and that the political party in power is to blame.

Nothing more, nothing less.

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prolesunited

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Tue Mar-02-10 11:03 AM
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5. Dems really, really need to hammer home

who is at fault for this.

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NJmaverick

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Tue Mar-02-10 11:03 AM
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4. He is the mother of all hypocrites

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4lbs

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Tue Mar-02-10 08:40 PM
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8. He's a GOP Senator. Being a hypocrite is a prerequisite. Also, so is having a short-term selective

memory.

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Phx_Dem

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Tue Mar-02-10 07:43 PM
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6. Yet we haven't heard a peep for our braindead media.

They probably don't even realize he voted no because they don't give a shit and can't be bothered to research anything. It's so much easier to just pick a side and voice an uninformed opinion than provide actual facts and commentary.

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FrenchieCat

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Tue Mar-02-10 08:33 PM
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7. Has anyone called him on it? Hell no.

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Cha

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Wed Mar-03-10 04:52 PM
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9. Kick for his hypocritical ass.

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