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On 3/3/10 7:34 AM, D.Duck wrote:
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ABC News producer Zach Wolf said he was given the middle finger by
Republican Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY), when a fellow reporter
asked why
the senator had put a hold on a federal highway bill that has
furloughed more than 2,000 federal workers.

Wolf didn't elaborate, but Tweeted, "Jim Bunning just flipped your
trusty Senate producer the bird as we pursued him onto the
Senators
only elevator."

"An Irate Jim Bunning kicks me off the elevator "This is a
Senators-only elevator!" Off-camera: He flipped the bird," he
wrote.

AP notes: "The furloughs and freeze on payments were the result
of a
decision last week by Republican Sen. Jim Bunning to block
passage of
legislation that would have extended federal highway and transit
programs, the department said. Those programs expired at midnight
Sunday."

"The extension of transportation programs was part of a larger
package
of government programs that also expired Sunday, including
unemployment benefits for about 400,000 Americans."

Pressed to rescind his persistent objections Friday to
extending the
jobless benefits, Bunning reportedly responded by saying "tough
****."

This isn't the first time Bunning has been reported as behaving
oddly.

Salon noted in 2004: "It's no secret in Kentucky that Sen. Jim
Bunning, a Republican who was expected to coast to reelection on
Nov.
2, has been acting strange. Over the past few months, Bunning has
angrily pushed away reporters, exchanged testy words with a
questioner
at a Rotary Club and stuck to brief, heavily scripted remarks at
campaign events, delivered in a halting monotone. The former major
league baseball star now travels the Bluegrass State with a
special
police escort, at taxpayer expense. His explanation? Al-Qaida
may be
out to get him."

Good argument for term limits - get rid of these people BEFORE
they turn
senile.



Even the minority leader is distancing himself from this guy. He was
voted
one of the five worst Senators.


Who voted? Who were the other four?

Larry


Not sure... I just heard a sound bite on ABC, but of course they have
an axe
to grind, since Bunning gave them the finger.

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Bunning's just another one of those Republicans who don't give a damn
about lower and middle income Americans.


The President has been promoting "pay as you go" and Bunning was just
following through.



Yeah, right... *that* surely was Bunning's motivation. Right. Sure.
Quack, quack, quack.


Nice spin.


No spin. Bunning's motivation obviously was personal and vindictive. As
I stated previously, he doesn't give a damn about the people he was
hurting by his grandstanding. Even his own party wants him out of the
Senate, which is why he is not standing for re-election. He is so out of
it, even SlimeBall McConnell wants him out of the Senate.

Bunning's had plenty of opportunities to vote for "paygo." He resisted
them until last week.

Now...go quack.

The Arbiter has studied this matter outside of the statements contained
in this post.
He finds that deficit reduction is being addressed by bi-partisan
Congressional committees and the President's recently appointed bi-
partisan deficit reduction commission.
Senator Bunning was not only out of bounds in interfering with emergency
fund allocations - which fall outside the limits of PayGo - but also
negligent in his duties of safeguarding taxpayer dollars, due to his
obstructionism costing the taxpayers millions of dollars to restore lost
funding when he interrupted normal processes.
It is not within the Arbiter's realm to make binding findings on
judgments of personality.
Given that, the Arbiter's finding is that Bunning is a dip**** whacko,
but that finding is *NOT* binding.
Arbitration is recessed.

The Arbiter