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Support Jim Bunning!; Call, write, fax
Topic Started: Mar 2 2010, 04:08 PM (178 Views)
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You might want to contact your elected representatives and tell them to get out there and support Senator Bunning- he's doing the heavy lifting for them!

Quit being COWARDS, REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVES! It is time to put up or shut up! We cannot afford to keep spending money we don't have.
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I support Bunning here. I voted for Bunning twice. Took great pleasure in seeing him win Wendell Ford's former seat. The only way it would have felt better is if that gun grabber would have ran again and lost, instead of just quitting and not running in 98. I hope the next guy we send up to Washington isn't a Mitch McConnell errand boy and votes more like Bunning.
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Is it Pay as you Go - or Not?

These people will do anything for an adoring Press Conference and then feel zero obligation to do what they have publicly stated.

Where is the accountability?

There are patterns here.

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PAYGO is a joke. What good is PAYGO if you can just declare something a disaster or emergency and then not have to pay for it? We all knew that is what the democrats were going to do. And remember almost every disaster bill come with buckets of pork in it. PAYGO isn't going to reduce our deficit spending if were doing stuff off the books. And it doesn't do a thing to pay down our debt. PAYGO was only instituted so the democrats could have cover to raise taxes.
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Mar 2 2010, 04:49 PM
PAYGO is a joke. What good is PAYGO if you can just declare something a disaster or emergency and then not have to pay for it? We all knew that is what the democrats were going to do. And remember almost every disaster bill come with buckets of pork in it. PAYGO isn't going to reduce our deficit spending if were doing stuff off the books. And it doesn't do a thing to pay down our debt. PAYGO was only instituted so the democrats could have cover to raise taxes.
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Now we need to get WingedWheel on TV!


Seems obvious to me.

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I sent him an email earlier today. No sense in calling my Senators; Casey and Specter . . . right.
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http://www.rollcall.com/news/43750-1.html

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Bunning Accepts Deal Allowing Benefits Bill to Advance
By John Stanton
Roll Call Staff
March 2, 2010, 6:39 p.m.

Under increasing pressure from Democrats and members of his own party, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) Tuesday night abandoned his one-man filibuster of a one-month extension to unemployment benefits and other programs.

In the end Bunning agreed to a deal allowing him one vote on an amendment to pay for the bill’s $10 billion cost. That proposal was offered by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) last Thursday at the start of his filibuster, but Bunning rejected it because he feared his amendment would not pass.

Reid has also agreed to give Bunning two votes on amendments to a larger, one-year extension bill that is currently under consideration in the Senate.

Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said he was pleased a deal could be reached.

“Bunning is coming back now, he has accepted our offer to have one offsetting amendment, which is an offer we made last week, and now he’s accepted it. I think it’s a new offset, we’re waiting to see. So, we’ll see where it goes,” Durbin said. “So it would give us two votes: offset amendment and final passage of the short-term [unemployment insurance].”

The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday night on the short-term bill, which also includes payments for doctors and highway spending as well as other items.

Thousands of federal highway employees who had been furloughed as a result of Bunning’s filibuster will likely be able to return to work later this week, and unemployment insurance checks will be sent to recipients after several days of delay.

To ensure the deal is enforced, Bunning has placed a hold on all the items included in the nightly “wrap up,” which normally entails a unanimous consent agreement to pass noncontroversial nominations and bills, a GOP aide said. Once the votes have taken place that hold would be lifted, the aide explained.


This wasn't a filibuster!

Also Jim Angle on FOX said this deal is only for a vote. It doesn't mean it will have to be paid for. So the democrats could very well vote to not "pay for it" thus violate PAYGO again. If that happens the republicans should be very thankful Bunning showed the democrats for the hypocrites they really are.
Edited by wingedwheel, Mar 2 2010, 07:17 PM.
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