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EYES WIDE OPEN: THE POLITICAL SCENE (03-03-10) - "Look Into The Eyes Of a Douchebag"
You are now looking at a total douche! He has stalled unemployment for everyone for months...just because he COULD! He's on a tirade because no one likes him and he's a Good Ole Boy from Kentucky! It is imperative to know people like Senator Jim Bunning.
The Senate ended a politically charged impasse over unemployment pay on Tuesday night, voting to allow jobless Americans in danger of exhausting their benefits another month of aid.
The bipartisan 78 to 19 vote in favor of the extended compensation came after Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, dropped his objection to extending unemployment compensation in exchange for a largely symbolic vote on paying for the aid.
The measure, which now goes to President Obama, should also allow 2,000 federal workers furloughed from the Department of Transportation to return to work as early as Wednesday and construction to resume on dozens of highway projects. Senators now will begin debating in earnest a much broader bill that would extend the safety net programs through the end of the year.
“It is time for us to stick together, both parties I hope, in an effort to stand up for the unemployed and get this economy back on its feet,” said Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate.
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Comment by Vega Tigarrius on March 3, 2010 at 7:52pm
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I wouldn't go so far as to call him a "douchebag" as it was so eloquently put, because I do feel that he is correct in forcing the American government to explain how they will pay for all of these extensions. Senator Bunning didn't just block the extension without alternative options. Senator Bunning suggested to Sen Harry Reid that the $10 billion bill that the month long extension would generate be paid for by money set aside from the stimulus plan voted on by Congress last yeah. Much of the bank bailout money has been repaid and could be used instead of taxpayer's future dollars. At some point we as a country have to create accountability. For example a 6 month period for accepting unemployment. After that 6 month period the opportunity to gain it would expire. By adding time limits people can't lay on the system and drain the country and taxpayers.
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