He is bitterly clinging to his guns & religion (ideology)

He is probably just looking for a distraction from the healthcare mess.

That includes Alexander and Corker in Tennessee. Bunning has a backbone. That’s how you do it.

Unfortunately, it sounds like most of his republican peers are applying rino pressure to Bunning right now and causing him to cave. It’s ok, what’s a billion here and there??

Companies don’t want to hire people only to have to lay them off and pay unemployment “insurance” for the next 18 months. So instead of hiring people in the midst of this economic upheaval they are making do with the personnel they have already. It is the extension of unemployment insurance that has put the capstone on the unemployment rate, just as three consecutive yearly increases in the minimum wage laid its foundation.

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” –Alexander Hamilton

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The press makes nary a mention that Reid can bring it up like a normal bill but doesn’t want to because 1) adding $10,000,000,000 to the deficit is so trivial that it’s not even worth discussing and 2) he thinks this makes a good photo op. The only outrage in the press is that Bunning didn’t let reporters follow him into an area reserved for Senators. Can you imagine a reporter and cameraman from Fox busting into the elevator with Schumer or Durbin? They’d be arrested by the Capitol Police quicker than you can say ‘dirtbag’.

Feel free to correct my history here: The Republican powers tell Bunning last year in no uncertain terms that they aren’t interested in supporting his reelection. Bunning is well peeved and decides to not run for reelection. On the way out the door Bunning decides to “go maverick” and hold up federal money for unemployment benefits. He says his actions are in the interest of combating the deficit, but Bunning had hitherto not been much of a deficit hawk. Bunning did, however, see a convenient opportunity to wreck some havoc on a party that had abandoned him and was starting to reconnect with the working classes who have been disappointed with Obama.

I may be wrong, and I’m sure you’ll call me out if so, but that’s how I see it.

And of course, that Means like Rinos like Susan Collins are happy to sell him down the river. The points that many people have made on RedState are absolutely accurate. It’s moderates that need to learn to play well with conservatives, not vice versa.

Faux-moderates like Collins who sell out principled colleagues like Bunning in order to burnish their own credentials should be shunned.

Thinks that this is a political win for him.. What he fails to realize is that it makes him look more incompetent than ever.

The Democrats really think they have us over a barrel with unemployment benefits, but slowly this temporary assistance is slowly becoming de facto welfare that’s going to bankrupt us. I think more and more people are starting to realize this also, and are really resenting it. Unemployment benefits should last no more than 3-4 months (and that’s being generous).

Isn’t amazing how quickly people are able to find jobs once their unemployment benefits run out?

At the very least, Republicans should make Democrats actually vote for these bills. I commend Bunning on his backbone.

because they beat their wives. However, I imagine Harry’s wife beats herself up every morning she wakes up next to Harry.

Remember? More than half of the stimulus still has not been spent. The Dems and Obama are waiting until right before the 2010 elections to release the rest of it. For political reasons they are keeping the economy slow and people out of work!

He’s failed miserably. A friend of mine is a card-carrying liberal living in Chicago these days. Even she recognizes that the failure to move this to a vote is Reid’s fault.

It’s fun and all landing rhetorical jabs at Reid over this, but what’s really going on here that’s preventing a vote? Not enough senators in town or something? I’m not buying that Reid wouldn’t have simply gone through the motions of a vote by now if it were as simple as that. As much as the media is covering for him I have to think Reid is personally embarrassed to be outmaneuvered like this.

Last week, Fred tweeted- Do we have to be concerned for Mrs. Reid when Harry becomes unemployed in November?

then they set up a vote that requires unanimous consent and complain that 1 senator killed it. Come on.

From the WH (Larry Summers) – “The blizzards that affected much of the country during the last month are likely to distort the statistics. So it’s going to be very important … to look past whatever the next figures are…”

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0111549320100301

Guess you have to find something to blame when the job fairy refuses to show up.
Or maybe the blizzards prevented more people from getting to the employment office, so the number is actually understated?

There must be a WH room filled with Sit ‘n Spins!!! (yes dating myself)

(Go ahead, picture it, I dare you. Obama, Emanuel, Summers, Gibbs, Biden, et al sitting on the floor, spinning with that look of glee that is so infectious)

SPIN SPIN SPIN!!!!

That’s all it is…

Arrogance…

Or utter incompetence at politics…

Eventually the majority of idiots who cannot see through this now will ask or be asked the question “well, why doesn’t he just ask for a regular vote instead of trying to force everyone to vote his way?”

Stalin would not be proud of this part of his legacy… at least Stalin could force the vote or retire the opposition for health reasons… These morons are looking at retiring themselves over health care instead… just keep getting it backwards…

Now for something more useful than most actions Reid has taken in the Senate:
Time to set out the trash…