Limbaugh: "Jim Bunning is a hero to people"
March 02, 2010 1:14 pm ET
From the March 2 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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In their minds Medicare and Social Security aren't government programs. I think it has something to do with "I paid in..."
For every $100 in income taxes, Americans pay in $80 in FICA taxes.
This hero needs a body count to be recognized... and his is huge!
That describes Rush Limbaugh to a "T". No wonder he thinks Bunning is a hero...
I wonder hoew long that would last if Randian conservative get in charge.
November is INDEED a long way away. That's why shenanigans like this CANNOT be forgotten.
You mean this word ... sh*t? Funny, I used the phrase "damned if you do damned if you don't" here a couple of days ago and wasn't censured. Wonder what is considered profanity and what's not. I was also censured a couple of weeks ago for using profanity in a post and there was no profane word within it. I understand the filter thing ... just not what is or is not considered profane.
Back to the regularly scheduled topic.
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.
I know how exhilirating it is to cut one's salary in half - the thrill of watching them repossess your car, the excitement of eating mac & cheese for dinner every night, the family fellowship created by weeks without utilities, the prestige of food stamps... Well, it's a lifestyle that obviously would be dangerously addictive. It's no wonder we're losing more and more people to it every day.
Your friend is doing the most patriotic and honorable thing imaginable - kicking the socialist habit cold-turkey.
Screw the unemployed!
Let them starve!
We need the money to fight the terrorists!
Please.
BTW, did you ever give me the facts behind your comments regarding Obama being a jackass? I gave you mine. All you gave me were false talking points which had nothing to do with Obama.
Request, better trolls please.
You posted four talking points which were false. Obama was not responsible for the bailouts . . . the money was appropriated before Obama became president. Obama is not "raising taxes on the top 5%" . . . he is allowing the ill-advised Bush tax cuts on those making over $250,000/year expire. They will simply be paying the taxes they were paying prior to the tax cuts which were enacted by reconciliation by the Republicans. Bush took a budget surplus and created the largest federal deficit in history. Obama's first year, with the exception of three months, operated under Bush's 2009 budget. BO does not wish to "nationalize healthcare." The current plan has nothing to do with nationalizing healthcare. I will kinda sorta give you the automakers' bailout, but if that had not occurred, unemployment would have been much, much greater and our economy would have, most likely, not experienced the rebound that it has. We don't produce much in this country any more, but we do manufacture cars.
You still haven't given me any facts.
I did ask you if you were screaming about Bush and his rubber stamp Congress spending money like there was no tomorrow. If you weren't, like I was, then you are a hypocrite AND uninformed. See, I was screaming about the out of control spending like crazy and people like you called me a "liberal" because I dared say anything about Bush . . . when Bush systematically destroyed our Fourth Amendment rights, I was screaming and people like you called me a "liberal." I'm still screaming about excess spending and about the continued destruction of our Fourth Amendment rights and people like you call me a liberal. You're a hypocrite.
I'm still waiting for facts from you. All you've presented so far are Fox/hate talk radio/Luntz talking points.
Incidentally, I was totally against Bush with his crazy wars and his bailouts, too. I hate spending money. And you are still a Lib.
You are still incorrect about the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and nationalizing healthcare. Letting the temporary tax cuts expire [they were never permanent] on the folks making over $250,000 is not "raising taxes." Neither of the bills which have passed in Congress [Obama wrote neither of them] call for nationalizing healthcare.
Dave is wrong and he is still not a conservative, he is simply a Fox/hate talk radio groupie who repeats their talking points.
Still waiting for those facts because, so far, you've given me none.
Dave forgot to sign on with another screen name before he agreed with himself.
Thanks, Dave. Way to bring Failure to a higher level.
Oh darn, I forgot to post under a different name, just like Dave!
-He's gonna increase taxes on the top 2% percent if that.
-He has to spend to get people working again and help those who are still searching for work and that's coupled with lower tax revenue due to a depressed tax base.
-Conservatives are the biggest asssholes in America.
Article 1, Section 7.
All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills.
Both LBJ and Clinton had balanced budgets in their terms. Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush and BushII never did.
Reagan had record deficits 5 of his 8 years, Bush had 2 and Bush II had 6. Obama most certainly will not break his Bush created record deficit any time in the rest of his presidency.
I believe that's what I told you, Dave. I didn't mention anything about war, but you did. I also repeatedly commented on Bush and his "rubber stamp Congress." Try reading what was written, Dave.
Facts???? Got any?
Yup
"Fact, BO bailed out the auto industry. Fact, BO wishes to nationalize Healthcare. Fact, BO wants to increase taxes on the top 5%. Fact, BO has increased the national debt. IYHO, he is a jackass."
There, I fixed it for you!
Maybe because he was too worried about:
Al-Qaida being out to get him, or "There may be strangers among us."
You can watch the video it here.
At this point in time, with the economy and unemployment where they are, deficit spending to fund 2000 jobs directly and fund unemployment insurance extensions are incredibly wise and economically sound.
No one should be saying "enough is enough" now WRT extending unemployment insurance and funding the jobs that this bill would continue!!! It's ridiculous, and you are 100% wrong here, Dave.
In other words, Congress needs to explain how to pay for the extended unemployment benefits, whether it be from an allocation from the Stimulus bill, tax hike, spending cuts, or or fiscal transfer from some other revenue source, Bunning is simply wanting to know how we are going to pay for it.
He doesn't care.
But why does he care NOW?
Well, Limpy -- he can't be MUCH of a hero, not if 1) he had, as of September 2009, a 35% approval rating in his own state, and 2) he won't be running for reelection because he blames his fellow republicans for "doing everything in their power to dry up my fundraising".
Limpy, perhaps you need to look up the definition of "hero" . . .
Next....
Next.
Nice try, but once again, phonyconservative, you fail.
But why spend money that you don't have and why did the democrats not allow UNUSED stimulus funds (about $400 bil unspent) to pay for this and do what paygo is supposed to do?
and from CBS news...
All the money has been spoken for. Just because it hasn't been spent doesn't mean it's available to be spent on something else.
Paygo is NOT supposed to be in effect for emergency, temporary spending.
they are lazy and do nothign to begin with. not at all just having trouble finding a job, any job to make some money.
i dare you, if you have the stones which we all know you don't, to look someone who has been unemployed for the last 6 months and has done everything they can to find a job and you tell them that bunning is a hero and they don't deserve UC benefits
Or the jobs that the "free market" private sector is failing to create.
But when we're close to double digit unemployment, there are multiple people going for every job. If Person A gets the job because they applied before Person B, or because they had better qualifications than Person C, or because Person D was too lazy to apply, there's still 3 people collecting unemployment.
Your mom must be proud.
In these turbulent times, do you honestly NOT fear the chance of finding yourself unemployed? I've worked in residential life at a university for 23 years and am tenured, and at 53 am terrified of the thought of possibly losing my job. I have so much vested that finding another job even close to what I have now would be nearly impossible, and I am too young to benefit from full retirement. So, I find it hard to believe that somewhere deep within yourself you don't have a niggling of fear of unemployement as well. Unless, of course, you are one the 'haves' who don't have to worry about working, etc.
When and/or if you should find yourself unemployed, will you find yourself in the unemployment line, or will you choose to give up those rights and all that you have paid in during your years of employment? I was there once, briefly in the 80's, and it wasn't easy ... nor was it something I was proud of, but it was nice to know that I had paid in and had it coming.
I truly hope it's something you never find yourself in need of.
note to repliers: long term saving/investing is historically safe. save the 'market failure' fear mongering for someone that will listen. thanks guys!
They will be far more empowered if they find a job as opposed to collecting benefits. Continually extending these benefits discourages them from finding jobs. The liberals want as many people dependent on government as possible. This empowers liberals. Sen. Bunning is basically freeing them from being dependent. I respect him for caring enough to do this.
According to many of my Xian friends even the disciples needed little help when it came to fishing. How is Bunning teaching anyone anything other than how mean-spirited and evil he is?
Bunning's callous grandstanding
What is their alternative when their family is in need, and there are millions of them, traditionally it has been crime.
The Republicans are watching this closely because their 2010 November advantage is eroding.
They also know the social unrest that will be created. All the bills that people pay with their unemployment check will not be paid, small businesses will be affected.
And tradtionally following that, it has been prison.
I think you are being unfair to the poor. Most do not resort to crime.
And yes, I am ignoring your nonsense. Mostly because it's in direct contradiction to whatever semblance of a point you were trying to make in the first two sentences, but also because you are just trying to get a dig at papa bear just because you think you can.
And really, what "principle" of the right-wing nutosphere are you pushing? The Galt-going, free-market Randian fantasy of every man for himself? The "I hate all forms of government" teabaggedness? Or were you just throwing s--t on a wall to see if it sticks?
Come to think of it, that last one just might be the only plausible reason for such an inane and incoherent point. I mean, if you are a Galt-goer, and you were honest with yourself, you would hate the idea of locking up poor people, because that's just another government welfare program that takes money from people who earn it. (If I have to explain that to you, just please shut up.)
If you were suckered into the tea-party madness, you would be too busy spelling simple words wrong and carrying rifles to public events to even have time to form the thought that somehow went through your brain without the filter of your frontal lobe.
Nope, I'm pretty much convinced that, like a caged ape who's just sick of the looky-loos, you defecated in your hand, flung it onto your framed poster of Red Dawn, and watched it drip onto your parent's basement floor instead of keeping your eyes on your keyboard.
*I retroactively apologize for the mental image I just implanted into everyone's minds. At least the ones with functional cerebrums*
Even his "moral stance" is completely disingenuous.
Look up hypocrisy in any dictionary and you will see the most common synonym is "liberal".
BTW: When will unemployment ever be long enough for leftists? At a year and a half it is already longer here then any other place on the planet!
Oh that's right, It ain't hypocrisy when a rightwinging loon does it.
Well, I tried, and didn't have any luck finding the liberal listed among synonyms at all:
here, here, or here.
Either you're dumber than sh*t, or you lie. Which is it?
This is why we NEVER have to make things up about you nutjobs. You live lifes of hypocrisy without even realizing nor even recognizing it.