Carlson calls Bunning "fearless" for "taking a stand" in blocking unemployment extension
March 02, 2010 9:32 am ET
Carlson added: "I'm all for that." From the March 2 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
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For only when you have a Job can you be of the unemployed so easily annoyed.
I imagine Gretchen must look at her make-up person as detritus under her shoe.
To put it not so nicely, To Ms. Carlson the unemployed have the same status as used toilet tissue.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
This is what people want their politician's to do...retire? ;>)
Besides, didn't he vote against pay-as-you-go?
Ah, but if Fox rolled that clip he'd go from "fearless" to "grumpy, old, insane man," in a blink.
When Republicans do the unpopular thing, it's "fearless" and what the American people "want them to do!"
When Democrats do the unpopular thing it's evil progressive totalitarian socialism!
Didn't Obama say that congress should worry about the American people's job security, not their own? Where was Gretchen's praise of Obama's fearlessness then?
strikes again...
He flipped them off! He used profanity on the floor!
I knew FOX was going to defend this, but I didn't want to believe it.
But, remember, Smithers is gay. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Hmmmmmmm...I seem to recall something about the Republican Party demanding that he retire because he was such an embarrassment and so certain to lose reelection.
Fixed it.
Wrong again. Unanimous consent is utilized when all the senators aren't physically in the chamber to vote. All senators supported this except one.
Watch c-span a little bit more. You'll learn what unanimous consent means and how often it is used.
No rules are being illegally bypassed. It's under agreement by BOTH PARTIES.
Except for one heartless obstructionist, apparently.
Are you yet again saying he's a mind reader?
The bill was supported by every other Republican except Bunning. And did didn't merely vote no. He singlehandedly stopped the bill from being passed because there wasn't a quorum.
And I think your assertion that he didn't vote for much of the spending proposed by Bush is a lie.
the problem is, when the "PayGo" Bill came to the senate vote in HJR45, what did Bunning do then? He voted NO!!!!
He voted against the thing that he now is standing as an obstructionist for.
It's not courage when you are playing the GOP obstructionist on a bill that the GOP knows would cost political capital if they blocked as a party, so Bunning is playing the role as a solo obstructionist because he can. Because he's retiring.
This isn't bravery, unless you think some twisted form of martyrdom is brave.
Republicans, by nature, are devious, and therefore, vastly better at politiking.
This I must remember before I speak.
The bill will get passed. If 99 of 100 senators voted for it under unanimous consent, it will get passed once they go through the regular process, which just means it takes a week to get it accomplished.
All Bunning accomplished was to get the spotlight on himself. Flip off an ABC News Producer.... oh and make it difficult for tens of thousands unemployed Americans who don't need this hassel now... oh and they furloughed tens of thousands of more workers on projects where the funding was halted.
This is grandstanding, pure and simple... there is nothing he can accomplish, except hurt those impacted by this extension.
You don't go for unanimous consent without the other side agreeing to it before you put it on the floor.
Bunning is truly going rogue or it was the GOP plan to screw Reid and to use Bunning to do so.
Either way, it's obstructionism at its worst. The bill will pass this week. There's nothing to get accomplished.
Bunning has nothing to lose, he is retiring at the end of this term and will be receiving his nice taxpayer-funded government pension and social security. He's a hypocrite.
Seeing as you're so good at researching definitions, I suggest you look up the definistion of obstructionist.
And keep in mind when reading that definition that Bunning, just one man, is blocking legislation that was supported by every other senator.
I guess we should forget about the thousands and thousands and thousands of unanimous consent votes since congress was formed.
Tilting at windmills and hurting Americans in the process?
What is he accomplishing? The bill will pass... it's just going to take days of wasted Senate's time to go through their procedures to get this done.
Since 2005 he has voted with the Party on every key legislation.
This is a far ranging bill with a ton of immediate impacts that are hurting people.
What about the other points... what is he trying to accomplish?
What can he accomplish?
http://thinkprogress.org/
Kind of like when they consistently voted for funding towards the Iraq war when Bush was in office... and if they hadn't followed suit, they would be called "anti-American", "far-left loons", "hating America", wanting our troops to fail, etc.
Not to mention Pay-As-You-Go was just fine for his state, but Carlson is all for him taking a stand against the unemployed.
The Republicans are holding up more than.......400.......bills sent to them from the House.
They threaten to filibuster every one of them.......Bunning is just showing the rethugs for what they are.
Oh, and congratulation to you too R-Senator Kyle, you are the second most hated man in America for suggesting that these benefits keep folks from seeking work.
Before "the recession" there were so few jobs on America that there was no military draft required.
What does it say about America when grandparents are left to raise their grandchildren as both parents are overseas risking their lives because they cannot find work at home?
No one is so patriotic that they would risk orphaning their children if they had another choice.
Look up hypocrisy in any dictionary and you will see the most common synonym is "liberal".
Blocking funds for an unjustitfied war: unpatriotic, traitorous
These people really make me sick.