Rush: "The Jim Bunning approach should be used across the board now. ... [S]hut the damn place down"

Please do that, GOP. It worked so well for Newt the the 1990s.

I get chills listening to a true patriotic American.

A-MER-I-CA...A-MER-I-CA...da da da da da da...

If shutting it down means no more KBR contracts in return for electrocuting soldiers, I'm all for it.

That's the new GOP answer? If we can't get EVERYTHING we want then nobody gets ANYTHING they want. That's sad. I just can't see how people even agree with that mentality.

Yea Rush, let's all suffer, each and every American alike, because you and the GOP can't get your way 100% of the time. Who is the child here again?

Everyone knows that in America the more money you have the more democracy you get!

Bunning's approach? Do you mean failure?

Did he suddenly forget that Bunning caved in? So, the Bunning approach is stall for a few days and then reverse course as soon as you're popular.

Yes! No more tax cuts for the rich! Shut'em down!

As always Rush, you're not paying attention. Since democrats came into the majority a few years ago, republicans HAVE more or less effectively shut the place down.

When crime is rampant and criminals run wild, it's only a matter of time before you start getting mad at the cops, and confronting them, because even though it's not them who are committing the crimes, it's their job to oppose and maybe stop the criminals, or at least try... and besides, what's the point of simply getting mad at the criminals, they're just being the rats and snakes and greedy animals they are, it's the cops we expect more from.

From this point forward, every time a Republican uses a "hold" to stop the entire Senate's business (and they do that by way of a stupid Senate rule that requires "unanimous consent" at certain legislative stages), and every time a minority of forty Republican Senators stops the majority of the Senate from passing legislation (by way of the equally stupid "cloture" rule in the Senate), from now on when this stupid undemocratic chit happens, I'm blaming Senate Democrats, most specifically their 'speak softly stickless' Majority Leader Sen. Reid, but also Vice President Biden, because he's the President of the Senate, and may take that Chair and dictate the Senate's proceedings any time he likes.

Because those snakes and rats and greedy animals who are abusing these stupid Senate rules, and doing so simply to stop or weaken any and all reforms we need and want, reforms we put Democrats into the Congressional majority in 2006 and 2008 so they could enact, that minority of Senate Republicans and those individual Republicans and their "holds", they can easily be gotten around.

The U.S. Senate is a sovereign institution, there's nobody outside of themselves who has any authority over them, not the DOJ, not the SCOTUS, no one.

And so when their Presiding Officer dictates their proceedings (and no one other than that Officer dictates their proceedings), such as the VP does, and he rules from the Chair that they shall consider any matter and put it to a vote, then that's it, there's no one to appeal to and nothing else to do, they vote, as the Chair rules.

And as long as a majority of the Senate backs the Chair's rulings, that's it, it's done, they pass the reforms that the majority of the American people want, and we all move on.

The Senate is sovereign in this matter, and no one other than their President dictates their proceedings or rules on any point of order or motion, and the majority then passes whatever it is the Senate passes.

From this point forward, all obstructions and "blockades" of the Senate's business, is the fault of the Democratic majority and their Majority Leader and the VP too, because they're the only ones who can do anything about it, and it's as easy as that.

Rush hasnt realized that that has been the game plan for the obstructionist party all along? I mean their tactic has been so obvious and blatant that it has become the name of the party itself. Rush is only a little over a year behind the rest of the party I guess - some leader. One would think boehner and mcconnell would fill in the de facto leader of the GOP unless of course, he knew this all along and has said it multiple times but is pretending for some reason like it is some new revelation. I am pretty sure that most votes cannot be held up by a single senator, just a guess. Otherwise, the senate might as well stop pretending that they are a legislative body.

Bunning provided a free public service announcement to the entire country: the republicans in Congress are obstructionists. There's no better way to get this point across than to withhold unemployment benefits to people whose lives depend on them. I loves me some free advertising for the Democratic Party.

I was very upset when Bunning threw his temper tantrum, and I still am, but it did serve to highlight just which party is responsible for congressional gridlock.