Just like an evil Santa Claus!

It’s true. Santa Clause, according to the stories, always makes sure that children who have been caught lying… get away with it. Wait, what?

Bunning, rightly or wrongly, objected to the Democrats passing a bill that said they wouldn’t add to the deficit, and then trying to vote to do something that would add to the deficit. Now, perhaps the extension was needed, perhaps it’s a good thing… but it doesn’t really matter. Bunning’s argument was that the government should do what it said it was going to do, how it said it was going to do.

Apparently, though, that’s a problem… and we should be mad at Bunning for reminding everyone that the Democrats lied when they said they wouldn’t add to the deficit.

But then again, coming from Drew Grant… who still hasn’t acknowledged or corrected the lie from the Bernie Goldberg story… I’m not surprised that lying isn’t a big deal.

It seems very few are reporting why Bunning was doing what he was doing. Very few are reporting that Reid could have avoided all of this.

Olby Sucks says:

It seems very few are reporting why Bunning was doing what he was doing.
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Could that possibly be because Bunning was dodging reporters asking him that same question? What do you think they should do, just speculate like Fox does?

“I will be watching them closely and checking off the hypocrites one by one.”

You’re the expert, Bunning!

We should be mad at him because his “come to Jesus” moment on fiscal discipline comes right when working families are trying to feed themselves, rather than when he voted to fund two wars on a credit card, 3 trillion in tax cuts for “Bush’s base”.

How about a pharmaceutical giveaway in the hundreds of billions (all unpaid for); or for that matter Bunning made not a peep when they were wheeling pallet loads of hundred dollar bills in Baghdad to U.S. corporations and contractors collecting on their no-bid contracts?

But that’s always been the Republican way, let them eat cake or the poor people’s vegetable – Catchup.

the real john t says:
March 2, 2010 at 8:51 pm

Well, that’s simply not true. While Bunning was trying to avoid those journalists, it was party because he had already answered their question. You can answer a question until your face turns blue… but if they’re not listening, it’s not really your fault.

Not speculation… the answer has been published and talked about frequently. And no amount of FOX bashing is going to change that reality.

Jim R says:
March 2, 2010 at 9:01 pm

Are you referring to the Medicare Part D bill that the Dems were screaming was not big enough and didn’t take the big pharmas and insurance companies to the cleaners enough b/c it goes thru private insurance cos?

Yeah, making it a totally funded by taxpayers and much bigger would have been a big help to the deficit about now.

BTW, my husband and I got our taxes cut by 1/3 as did my mother b/c we were in the lowest 15% bracket. I sure wish we had known we were so rich back then. Who knew?

Those stalkers were lucky all they got from Bunning was his middle finger. ;)

@ ImNotBlue

You said he gave the answer. What was it?:

Olby Sucks says:
March 2, 2010 at 9:24 pm

I commented elsewhere that those reporters were lucky that he didn’t use a screaming fastball to their heads to protect his elevator.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385×439041

“I commented elsewhere that those reporters were lucky that he didn’t use a screaming fastball to their heads to protect his elevator.”

Oh my Grammie. Is that a call for violence? You know, the thing you cry and scream about over on that other site you live on.

Grammie says:
March 2, 2010 at 9:22 pm

Well, as long as it worked out for you and yours…

I was referring to the Medicare Part D, rammed through Congress, by among others, Billy Tauzin who took a job the following year at the Big Pharma lobbying group for a cool two million annually, that forbid negotiating exorbitant prices with the tried and true free market principle of bulk purchases, like the VA, et al.

The Medicare Part D I was referring to was passed in the wee hours of the morning by Republicans holding the vote open an unprecedented period of time, so Tom Delay could pass out envelopes full of cash to wavering members, the Part D that almost got the CBO actuary fired if he reported the actual costs because certain members had pledged to vote against it if it was over a certain amount in the range of four hundred billion.

The Medicare Part D I was referring to, far from the one that directly benefited you and yours, was the one where Grover Norquist and Karl Rove laughed their asses off because they got the short term benefit of caring about the “the folks”, while at the same time putting it all on the credit card while portraying Democrats as big spenders; and for added giggles also served to “drown the government in the bathtub” to make it easier for their corporate benefactors to conduct themselves and tax themselves as they please.

I’m glad it worked out for you, though, really.

Jim R says:
March 2, 2010 at 10:38 pm

I think you are reading far too much Kos, Move On, DUmmies etc.

Ah john,
The answer was that he wanted congress to do what they said they would, pay as you go. Remember a couple weeks ago when BO said it himself? But of course, we all know he says what he thinks people want to hear with NO intention of doing it.

the real john t says:
March 2, 2010 at 9:28 pm

You said he gave the answer. What was it?:

Really… I even wrote about it in my first post!

Here’s a quote from HuffPo:

Bunning says he doesn’t oppose extending benefits — he just doesn’t want the money that’s required added to the deficit. He proposes paying for the 30-day extension with stimulus funds. The Senate’s GOP leadership did not support him in his objections.

And here’s a whole article on the situation, from the San Francisco Gate.

The filibuster ended for one simple reason: the Republicans had to end it. The coverage the Republicans was getting was devastating, the same type of coverage as when Gingrich and the Contract on America people were garnering, the same type of coverage that ran Gingrich out of office. There was no principle here, not from the Democrats, not from the Republicans and certainly not from Bunning.

Olby Sucks says:
March 2, 2010 at 9:24 pm

Those stalkers were lucky all they got from Bunning was his middle finger. ;)

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I suppose it was that or being pelted by a stale cookie. Bunning was not going to let loose of his Ovaltine.

President Barack Obama on Saturday congratulated Congress for restoring a requirement that the federal government spend only what it can afford — a day after authorizing $1.9 trillion more federal debt.

Obama used his weekly radio address to report that he signed into law on Friday night the legislation commonly known on Capitol Hill as “Pay-Go,” which has been used sporadically over the past 20 years by congressional budget-writers. Obama also repeated his call for $20 billion in budget cuts, a freeze in certain government spending, and the creation of a fiscal commission.
(The Hill, 2/13/2010)

Turns out Sen Bunning is the truthful one and Pres Obama and his fellow Democrats are just a liars. But then, intelligent people already knew that.

What I really enjoy is all the references to yesterday…who did what yesterday…what they voted for yesterday..what they said yesterday…what they approved of yesterday, what they blocked yesterday, who they screwed yesterday, who they paid off yesterday, what they passed yesterday, what they didn’t pass yesterday…none if it matters anymore.

You know what? Yesterday was just that, yesterday.

This is what non-progressives have figured out: WE HAVE TO FACE THE TRUTH. Like a regular family household that has finally awakened and realized they have $100k in credit card debt, a $200k mortgage, and $50k in car loans, $30k in college debt, and a home that’s worth less than what they owe, all on a $75k a year income is unsustainable.

Demonize anybody ya want if it makes ya feel better, but this fantasy of progressives that we’ll be just fine as long as the government keeps writing checks is about to come to a crashing halt.

What part of “We are fucking broke” do you morons NOT understand?

Grammie says:
March 2, 2010 at 11:34 pm

Thanks for so diligently addressing the merits of my arguments and not resorting to cheap, attack the messenger ad hominem; oh, wait…

Take Hoover and his soulmate, W. Hoover was a fiscal conservative, and he led us into not only a stock market crash, but a complete financial failure. W, unlike Hoover, spent wildly, erratically, ineffectively, without a single thought given to how we might may back. He led us into a stock market crash which, but-for the election of President Obama, would have led us to a financial market crash, as well. In response to the havoc they brought upon us, Hoover and W both did nothing. That didn’t work out too well, did it? With the rejection and hopefully death of trickle down economic theory, and the emergence of neo-Keynesian pump priming, we have a path out of the W collapse, if we have the cajones, the faith in our great nation, to take it. I’m not as willing to give up on America as you, Azarkhan and Tim Z. Ank, are. We are made of the right stuff. I’m sorry you doubt that. You can never go wrong if you simply believe in America.

Jim R says:
March 3, 2010 at 8:52 am

Grammie says:
March 2, 2010 at 11:34 pm

Thanks for so diligently addressing the merits of my arguments and not resorting to cheap, attack the messenger ad hominem; oh, wait…

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Now, now, Kim. Oma Hawkins doesn’t do that because she says she doesn’t do that,

Jim R says:
March 2, 2010 at 10:38 pm

Oh, I’m so sorry but I didn’t detect any cogent argument hiding among all the inflammatory rhetoric about giggling, me getting mine and all those envelopes of cash flying around the floor of the House etc.

I stand by my original response:

I think you are reading far too much Kos, Move On, DUmmies etc.