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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." |
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"C. Mor Butts" wrote in message ... 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. |
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g.com... "C. Mor Butts" wrote in message ... 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. -- Nom=de=Plume |
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wrote in message g.com... "C. Mor wrote in message ... 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 |
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... nom=de=plume wrote: wrote in message g.com... "C. Mor wrote in message ... 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. -- Nom=de=Plume |
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On 3/2/10 7:53 PM, nom=de=plume wrote:
wrote in message ... nom=de=plume wrote: wrote in message g.com... "C. Mor wrote in message ... 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. \ Bunning's just another one of those Republicans who don't give a damn about lower and middle income Americans. |
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On 3/2/10 7:53 PM, nom=de=plume wrote: wrote in message ... nom=de=plume wrote: wrote in message g.com... "C. Mor wrote in message ... 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. \ 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. |
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On 3/3/10 6:22 AM, D.Duck wrote:
Harry wrote: On 3/2/10 7:53 PM, nom=de=plume wrote: wrote in message ... nom=de=plume wrote: wrote in message g.com... "C. Mor wrote in message ... 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. \ 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. |
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On 3/3/10 6:22 AM, D.Duck wrote: Harry wrote: On 3/2/10 7:53 PM, nom=de=plume wrote: wrote in message ... nom=de=plume wrote: wrote in message g.com... "C. Mor wrote in message ... 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. \ 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. |
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On 3/3/10 7:34 AM, D.Duck wrote:
Harry wrote: On 3/3/10 6:22 AM, D.Duck wrote: Harry wrote: On 3/2/10 7:53 PM, nom=de=plume wrote: wrote in message ... nom=de=plume wrote: wrote in message g.com... "C. Mor wrote in message ... 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. \ 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. |
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... Harry wrote: On 3/2/10 7:53 PM, nom=de=plume wrote: wrote in message ... nom=de=plume wrote: wrote in message g.com... "C. Mor wrote in message ... 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. \ 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. Which is why he voted against the paygo bill... hypocrite for sure. -- Nom=de=Plume |
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@mypacks.net says... On 3/3/10 7:34 AM, D.Duck wrote: Harry wrote: On 3/3/10 6:22 AM, D.Duck wrote: Harry wrote: On 3/2/10 7:53 PM, nom=de=plume wrote: wrote in message ... nom=de=plume wrote: wrote in message g.com... "C. Mor wrote in message ... 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. \ 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 |
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"D.Duck" wrote in message ... Harry wrote: On 3/3/10 6:22 AM, D.Duck wrote: Harry wrote: On 3/2/10 7:53 PM, nom=de=plume wrote: wrote in message ... nom=de=plume wrote: wrote in message g.com... "C. Mor wrote in message ... 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. \ 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. Why do you reply to him at all? That's all he wants. --Mike |
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