to be laid off?

He does not know how to comport himself in the Senate building!

http://www.breitbart.tv/abc-news-angers-sen-bunning-this-is-a-senators-only-elevator

Every now and then it is illuminating to check out the cable channel MSNBC, just to see how the left is “covering” a news story. Last night, on the Keith Olbermann show “Countdown”, the hothead substitute host Lawrence “You’re a liar!” O’Donnell, revealed that a distorted version of the news is apparently all his viewers deserve. In presenting a hatchet job on the Sen. Jim Bunning’s legislative “hold” on yet another $10 billion of spending, the piece was far more successful in condemning the reliability of MSNBC News, than anything that could possibly be said about the Senator.
The attack illustrated virtually every tool the left uses to smear their opponents. It ranged from dredging up a four-year-old story stating Sen. Bunning was rated one of the five worst senators by – you guessed it – Time magazine, to questioning his sanity. The highlight of the piece had an ABC reporter trying to force himself onto a private senate elevator with the Kentucky Senator, to badger him as to why he would cruelly block further action on such a wonderful bill. Incredulous, the Senator stated that he had just explained exactly that on the Senate floor.
The reason for Sen. Bunning’s action, of course, has to do with the recently passed “Pay As You Go” measure that requires either tax hikes or spending cuts to pay for any new expenditures. Aware of this, Mr. Bunning put a hold on the bill so that the “PayGo” rule would not be conveniently ignored. But as is so common with the propaganda ministry of the left, MSNBC denied their own viewers that key information.
I recognize that it isn’t news that that MSNBC does these kinds of things all the time. But it is a perfect example of why “news” by omission, is not news at all.

If they wanted the bill so much. Perhaps it would have delayed their return trips to the weekend.

I read that very same article before coming in here and it’s amazing to me how the basic question of “Senator Liberal Dooche, if Sen. Bunning’s objection upsets you so much why not just call for a vote on the bill?”

Answer of course is it would take away what they feel is an opportunity to make a cheap political point. Couldn’t care less about their constituents or the unemployed. It’s all political theatre.

Yet the MSM dutifully refuses to call the Democrats out on it — shows you (once again) why newspapers and traditional media are dying.

Not sure why, but that isn’t the first media reference I have seen report it as such. Oh and for the record, he should go public and explain himself as it seems even Mr. Obama is personally flogging him and by extension all Republicans.

A roll call vote would put everyone on the record where they stand for this additional spending. Going for unanimous consent gives the democrats the ability to say in the lead-up to the mid-terms “see – the Republicans say one thing but vote another. . .”

My understanding is that because the measure has been labeled “emergency spending” is is technically exempt from the PayGo requirements, but as a result, the bill REQUIRES unanimous consent to proceed. The whole point of that stipulation is to prevent the senate from abusing the “emergency spending” label to circumvent PayGo rules by allowing senators to place a hold in objection.

So it seems that Jim Bunning is IN FACT blocking this bill. If true, I’m willing to forgive the media for not getting into the nitty gritty of parliamentary procedure and just labeling any bill-blocking measure as a “filibuster”.

It’s interesting how that line comes across as a BAD thing in the Roll Call piece.

to Senator Bunning but I’ll consider writing the author of the Roll Call piece as well.