Today, one solitary Senator once AGAIN blocked even a 30-day extension of jobless benefits and other expired measures. The measure would also extend highway programs and prevent a big cut in Medicare payments to doctors, that would another $10 BILLION to the Deficit, UNTIL Congress found a way to appropriate the funds needed for those programs...without further borrowing!
Senator Jim Bunning doesn't oppose the bill, just the fact that Congress is once AGAIN spending money without funding that spending.
Senator Bunning has proposed to pay for the extension with unspent money from last year's massive economic recovery package, but Harry Reid objected that.
For that, Senator Bunning is being condemned by dolts for daring to hold Congress to its own words!
Why?
Merely because he’s insisting that Congress pay for this latest spending - $10 billion in an emergency Transportation and unemployment funding measure that Congress has, so far, refused to fund.
Moreover, as Bunning points out, just a few weeks ago Congress passed the "PayGo" law that requires Congress to fully fund all new discretionary spending. Bunning is simply holding them to their own word!
Instead of doing the right thing and addressing THEIR obscene deficit spending, liberal Democrats have instead sought to make some political hay out of Bunning’s courageous and righteous stand. Senator Patty Murray of Washington
"Today we have a clear cut example to show the American people just what's wrong with Washington , D.C. ," Murray
"He's hurting the American people," Collins said when asked Tuesday if Bunning was hurting the Republican Party.
Actually, what Bunning’s stand does is highlight the cowardly hypocrisy of Congress’s liberal members, a group that passed PayGo scant weeks ago, only to refuse to abide by it now.
