Jim Bunning was forced out of a reelection bid by Mitch McConnell because he is crazy and senile. He is a mean, nasty old crank and a fucking liar.
Judah On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Actually, Bunning didn't pay hell. He had to miss a basketball game, I >> admit, and he complained about that. And his reasoning behind the >> fillibuster threat? "Unemployment benefits make people less likely to >> go find a job". Ah yes, those pitiful lazy people who could easily >> find a job in a recession if they just got off the couch. > > Are you filling in for GG? > Bunnings never said that, he said this: > "Well, we have tried to work this out with the majority, particularly > after the pay-go vote last week. When 100 senators are for a bill and > we can't find $10 billion to pay for it, there's something the matter, > seriously the matter with this body. I've said that last night. I > don't want to repeat myself. I have offered several ways to pay for > it. If everybody in this chamber -- and there is no senators except me > here right now, but there are 100 members of this body -- believes as > the senator from Illinois does that this is essential and we should > pass it, then we should pay for it. There are going to be other bills > brought to this floor that are not going to be paid for, and I'm going > to object every time they do it. I don't much agree with the Chairman > of the Federal Reserve, but it was striking yesterday when he said if > at the present level of debt and the present administration's budget > is passed, that the debt of the United States will be unsustainable, > unsustainable to me means that there is a chance of one of the rating > agencies downgrading the rating on our debt. We cannot allow that to > happen. Because I have got too many young grandchildren that want > America to be the same America that I grew up in. And I'm worried to > death that that's not going to be the case." (2/26/10) > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:313303 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
