Sen. Bunning Takes to Floor to Defend His Filibuster

Politico: Sen. Jim Bunning took to the Senate floor on Monday to defend his one-man filibuster of expiring unemployment benefits. "If we can't find $10 billion to pay for something that we all support, we will never pay for anything on the floor of this U.S. Senate," he said

March 1, 2010 at 7:52 pm - C-SPAN
Dateline: Washington DC
Dukenukem   March 1st, 2010 - 6:21 pm

About time!!!

Nice to see someone do what needs to be done.

STOP SPENDING!!! No one “OWES” your sorry butt a dime. Life is tough, deal with it.

All the whinny babbies who feel entitled to an existiance an my dime I say “Let em’ eat cake..

Keep fighting Senator!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Duke

Dukenukem   March 1st, 2010 - 6:22 pm

Sorry, “On MY Dime”!!!

vland   March 1st, 2010 - 6:57 pm

i can’t take any more harry reid. i’ve never heard such whining…

steve s   March 1st, 2010 - 7:10 pm

Hey Harry! Tax cuts don’t cost anything you idiot. Stupid zero sum fools like you think it costs, but based on your rational it reduces REVENUE. But history has shown rate reductions actually increase revenue. But, I’m not stupid like you and say it cuts costs. This is what you get when you have a dimwit attorney who doesn’t know shit from shinola.

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JimBunning   March 1st, 2010 - 7:21 pm

No one feels entitled to unemployment and it’s not only your dime you jerk*ff. I’ve paid plenty of dimes and I didn’t ask to get laid off. I’ve been looking for work and get even get a fast food or retail job because I’m over-qualified. I can build multi-million dollar information systems but am over-qualified to flip burgers and run a cash register.

You’re right…no one owes me a dime. Just give me the dimes I’ve already paid into the system and we’ll call it even.

BTW, I don’t want to pay for your fire and police protection or the military (and I’m a Navy vet), so stop spending on those because no one OWES you protection and use the money to help your neighbors who need to eat and pay their utility bills.

Wow. What a jerk. I hope you’re next.

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   March 1st, 2010 - 7:30 pm

America…desperate times…call for desperate measures…and these are desperate measures…but needed!

It is time to just say “NO”! We have to sort out what is ‘absolutely’ necessary and what can be eliminated!

It sounds to me…that business is running as usual in Washington…they are including some ‘absolutely’ necessary items with that which can be eliminated!

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REMEMBER THE ALAMO……TOMORROW IS THE DAY TEXAS…YOU HAVE THREE CHOICES

1. INCUMBENT PERRY – WHO ATTENDED THE 2007 SECRET MEETING OF THE BILDERBERG SOCIETY!

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-perry_31tex.ART.State.Edition1.43b926a.html

2. SENATOR HUTCHINSON – A MODERATE ‘FENCE SITTER’ WHO HAS BEEN IN WASHINGTON TOO LONG.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Kay_Bailey_Hutchison.htm

3. DEBRA MEDINA – A ‘TRUE’ CONSERVATIVE. READ THE ENDORSEMENT FROM SANDRA BEENE, CO-FOUNDER OF THE TXMINUTEMEN ON HER WEB SITE!

http://www.medinafortexas.com/

ONLY ONE “REAL” CHOICE…HERE…TEXAS…GET BEHIND HER AND BRING ‘CHANGE’ AND ‘HOPE’ TO AMERICA BY CHANGING THE STATUS QUO IN TEXAS.

WE SENT A MESSAGE TO THE DEMOCRATZI IN MASSACHUSETTS – LET US SEND ONE TO THE REPUBLICANS IN TEXAS!

jw   March 1st, 2010 - 8:08 pm

Why not use the stimulus money the Dems have stashed away for a slush fund to get reelected—it would be doing everybody a favor.

Check out http://www.onlibertyandfreedom.com

JIM   March 1st, 2010 - 8:10 pm

It is amzaing how Harry Reid has to always refer to “the past’ and cannot deal with the present. He is one uninformed and unengaged person and will be defeated in the next election.

Bob   March 1st, 2010 - 9:25 pm

Jim baby you are so right! Just say no!

Dave, Tn   March 1st, 2010 - 9:35 pm

JimBunning March 1st, 2010 – 7:21 pm

Sorry about your trouble man and I hope you find something soon and you’re right we’ve all paid into this corrupt circus.

Still think Reid is a worm of a little traitor that could reach into Obama’s 500 billion dollar stash IF he really cared. They like using the human shields though and just like the terrorist they don’t give a good damn what happens to them.

Thor   March 1st, 2010 - 9:54 pm

Go Senator Bunning, Go. Don’t give em another penny unless they can find a way to pay for it. Let em all suck wind till they croak.

roger   March 1st, 2010 - 10:02 pm

No one extended my benefits in 1991 when I lost my job and house and car.

STOP the INSANE spending.

melli50   March 1st, 2010 - 10:21 pm

Bye, Harry! I wish I could say it’s been nice knowing you, but it hasn’t.

bulldawg   March 1st, 2010 - 10:58 pm

About time a real Representative stood up and told the truth, you go Bunning, See if they would use the TARP MONEY he could live with it, but the Socialist Dems say no not our slush fund. Quit spending money you don’t have you bunch of dam idiots. Jim real Americans have your back, so tell it like it is I don’t care what Ole Harry says.

mmm   March 1st, 2010 - 11:17 pm

Call his office to show SUPPORT for his tough stand !!!

mojo   March 1st, 2010 - 11:20 pm

Go Bunning!!

– Obama insisted on Pay-Go. Somebody has to start to stick to the program. Wish the media would give this much attention to the massive Stimulus fraud, Global Warming fraud, ACORN fraud, TARP fraud, Tax cheat Charlie Rangel fraud, and HC “rationing and patronage” bill.

I just woke up from a 30 year sleep… is the media biased now or something?

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DEF   March 1st, 2010 - 11:22 pm

Harry Reid is an Actor and a singer, he convinced all, that because we couldn’t afford the government inspectors, the workers would have to go home and suffer in poverty, because they couldn’t build anymore roads!!

infinitefreedom   March 1st, 2010 - 11:24 pm

God, infinite law & life be with you Sen. Jim Bunning. The democrats need to keep deficite spending to keep Americans blind as long as they can. If Americans knew how bleak our future really was, they would stop them in their tracks.

They longer that they can drag out the theft of everything we have, the deeper the hole is when we finally fall in. & that, is what they want.

I thank you for your service, dear man, & bless you always. Life need not apologize.

Terry   March 1st, 2010 - 11:37 pm

The text sure seems to be misleading. So, he is filibustering AGAINST American workers? Wow. Always money for ISRAEL, though. For foreigners that slaughtered Americans on the USS Liberty. Best part is EVERYONE is waking up! We are going to see another KRISTALLNACHT – and the sooner the better!

Joe R.   March 1st, 2010 - 11:50 pm

Your dime?!?! I have served this country in time of war in the U.S. Marine Corp. I have risked my life for this country for your freedom, NOT FOR MONEY BUT lOVE OF COUNTRY. I have paid my taxes for years and by doing so, I have paid for others social security checks, I have paid for others medical bills, I have paid for your children to go to school. I have paid for others unemployment. The list goes on and on. When I need help because of these morons inability to do the job they were elected to do, what do I get for my work, for my sacrifices?

I get Dukenukem’s “STOP SPENDING!!! No one “OWES” your sorry butt a dime. Life is tough, deal with it.
All the whinny babbies who feel entitled to an existiance an my dime I say “Let em’ eat cake..”
bullshit, thats a great attitude…Screw Americans in need. You dont care I bet you have a job.

I get thor and his screw em attitude…hey thor the only people that you are hurting by your ” Let em all suck wind till they croak” comment are Americans not Republicans not Democrats but freaking Americans. The dumbasses elected to Congress will continue to be rich and if voted out will get full retirement benefits on your, mine and every citizens dime. They will be receiving this money until you suck wind. You don’t care I bet you have a job.

I get Roger and his bitter resentment. Forgetting how he felt at the moment, his needs at the time or simply ignoring it. Keep that, I got screwed so you should too attitude, it soooo American. Hey Roger the difference here buddy is that this isn’t 1991, the banks didn’t collapse in 1991, the unemployment rate in 1991 was 6.4 in Jan and topped in 1991 at 7.3. Today it is above 10%. How long were you unemployed? We are not even close to recovery. You don’t care I bet you have a job.

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty … I served for those words after your name, I put my life on the line for those words. What have you sacrificed? I know what tough times are. I know what it is like to keep what is necessary. I know what it is like to beg for money to give my child lunch money. I know what it is like to receive kindness from the church so that I could get food from the food bank. Otherwise we don’t eat. I know what it is like to not have one freaking dime in the bank, no hope and deep depression. I daily try to hold my family’s life together. Being sued for medical bills over heart problems. Don’t tell me what is needed. You don’t care you have a job and freedom/liberty Americans have provided for you. Don’t bother thanking me or my father who served on Iwo Jima in World War II with 2 purple hearts and silver star, My Grandpa’s brother who served in WW I, My brother who served in the air force during vietnam, my nephew who has spent his 21, 22, 24 birthdays in Afghanistan. My son who is going into the Marine Corp as an officer. We who have helped sustain your ability to put those words, so precious to us, after your name.

Don’t tell me, any of you about fiscal responsibility, family values, morals and conservatism. It seems to me that you use those words in hypocrisy and as a punch line.
I am not a lib zombie, I am not a Democrat, I am a conservative that needs help, I am an American. I am a Patriot.

Health Care… no. Even being sued I don’t want it. Cap and Tax…NO. Amnesty…NO. No to socialism but by God help Americans! This is not the time for this rhetoric. Don’t sacrifice Americans for partisan politics. I would gladly shoulder a financial burden to help Americans (D) or (R). If you cannot help Americans in their time of need I truly believe that you are not worthy of the Freedom and Liberty, those words, those rights, that we who have served, sacrificed and died to preserve.

I am ashamed as an American for you who wrote those comments, thank God that we have men and women willing to preserve your freedoms with their very lives. I know that you wouldn’t. You won’t help Americans in a time of need, a need that doesn’t require a life on the line commitment from you.

Joe R.   March 2nd, 2010 - 12:03 am

Your dime?!?! I have served this country in time of war in the U.S. Marine Corp. I have risked my life for this country for your freedom, NOT FOR MONEY BUT lOVE OF COUNTRY. I have paid my taxes for years and by doing so, I have paid for others social security checks, I have paid for others medical bills, I have paid for your children to go to school. I have paid for others unemployment. The list goes on and on. When I need help because of these morons inability to do the job they were elected to do, what do I get for my work, for my sacrifices?

I get Dukenukem’s “STOP SPENDING!!! No one “OWES” your sorry butt a dime. Life is tough, deal with it.
All the whinny babbies who feel entitled to an existiance an my dime I say “Let em’ eat cake..”
bullshit, thats a great attitude…Screw Americans in need. You dont care I bet you have a job.

Betsy   March 2nd, 2010 - 12:26 am

Duke you are a dumb Butt a**hole

Joe Ryder   March 2nd, 2010 - 12:34 am

Nothing like having your freedom of speech taken away by breitbart.

wucs   March 2nd, 2010 - 12:47 am

Duke have you ever heard of Unemployment Insurance…. Man, you sould get out of your mothers basement and see what the real world is like. Maybe you are in the Senate, then maybe you should still see what the real world is like. Never got a dime from the government and wont till i get my S.S. And medicare.

wucs   March 2nd, 2010 - 1:04 am

Bunning is 78 and acts like the crazy old man next door ( well like ) most of the senate because there really old…. there is a mandatory retirement age for pilots. Thats why they dont have to filibuster anymore (like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington) It might kill them they couldnt take there nap, they just might fall asleep while talking. No Iam not a dem not a liberal or a socailist Iam just realistic.

wucs   March 2nd, 2010 - 1:19 am

I should of just looked at what Joe R said and not waste 1 min. of my life saying somthing to duke
I couldnt agree more with Joe R!

fastfacts   March 2nd, 2010 - 2:20 am

There is too large of a price tag on this and all the bills that the dems are trying to pass. Look at all the earmarks and special project funding in the bill. Hundreds of millions of dollar and please don’t say millions are nothing. It is something to a person out of work. There is a better way to fix the economy and it won’t cost so much. What is the statistic now, over 25% of America are on some sort of food stamp or government welfare. Sen. Bunning has his heart in the right area and hopefully the people will see that. Either way he is retiring so it won’t effect him, but it will his seat.

SOURCE OF MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SENATE RACE: http://www.americanparchment.com/library/election/election_2010.html

wucs   March 2nd, 2010 - 2:30 am

This s@#t head said he was missing a BASKETBALL GAME OH come on REALLY POOR B@@TARD. Washington makes me SICK! I wished he was running again…. But at 78 at least he thought it was time to give it up….. Maybe he can Go to a home….on MY DIME to get his jello and his scrambled eggs… Man all i can say is WT@

FastFacts   March 2nd, 2010 - 3:17 am

Did Reid just say this funds “Satellite Funding” in which people’s cable is funded. What BS is that? What a waste of money.

Artoconnell   March 2nd, 2010 - 8:03 am

THe federal government needs to become as aware as the rest of the country that they ( the feds) can not create jobs..they can created busy work..funded with taxation taken from “Real” work. Its about time to sweep this current set of trash into the dust bin of history.

they are all for spending cuts…but they cant seem to do the actual heavy lifting that goes with telling people NO..

if they need some help…there are 320 million of us out here who do get it.

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   March 2nd, 2010 - 12:29 pm

Dear Joe R. at 11:50 pm…first of all thank you for your comments. They were informative and no one disputes that there are those Americans in our Republic that need help.

You need to go back and read my comment carefully and you will see that I am not against funding additional unemployment insurance to those who need it!

What I did say, and why I agree with Jim Bunning, is that someone has to stand up and stop the deception that is going on in Washington.

What I mean by ‘deception’ is that they take a very necessary piece of legislation (continue funding of the unemployment funds) and put it in with something that is ‘pork’ to get it passed. It is dirty politics as usual in Washington in these desperate times, and they are still using their lies and deception to do what they want.

The Congress just passed a piece of legislation that makes them ‘pay before they pass’ and Jim Bunning is attempting to hold them to this bill…just passed.

It isn’t that Jim Bunning wants to stop funding for unemployment for millions across this Republic and in his own state…it is just that he is trying to reveal the hypocrisy of this bill and the Democratzi ‘loons’ trying to hide something!

So people please read what he is doing…it is for your benefit. He is trying to make the Congress fess up and be honest.

Harry Reid, and his other Democratzi ‘loons’ have been sending through bill after bill (TARP, Stimulus, Omnibus, JOBS bill, etc.) with no time to read them because within their pages are hidden secret deals and briberies.

They want their ‘government run’ healthcare to pass…so they come out on TV and tell Americans we want ‘all’ Americans to have health insurance and then proceed to chastise the opposition to ‘government run’ healthcare as if they don’t! But within their bills is funding for abortions and insurance for illegals, etc. But they are using key words and phrases to persuade you that they are right…and they are wrong!

Everyone agrees that ‘all’ legal citizens should have healthcare, but we disagree on how to go about it!

Now he is doing the same with this bill…appealing to the masses to make you think that Jim Bunning and others don’t want you to have any more unemployment.

That, too, is a lie! They took a very important, and needed, piece of legislation and combined it with others.

They are bypassing the very bill they just passed to make sure the funds are there before they spend. They are breaking their own laws.

There is no more money! There is no more money!

If you want to go against someone, try the Democratzi ‘loons’ who promised $3 billion/million dollars to Louisiana for their vote.

If you want to go against someone, try the Democratzi ‘loons’ who bought the vote in Nebraska to the tune of trillions.

Those are monies that should go to unemployment for ‘all’ citizens not just those to buy their votes.

So let’s focus on what is really is the problem…the Democratzi ‘loons’ in power who have put us in this position today where you and millions of others have lost their jobs…and if we don’t stop them and stand up and speak out…millions more will lose their jobs.

Until then…we have no money! The Democratzi ‘loons’ have saddled your children with trillions of dollars in debt to a COMMUNIST country! What happens when they come to collect their debt, give them your children?

Please, I sympathize with you…but you must understand that Jim Bunning, and others like myself, are not trying to stop your getting unemployment…we are just trying to get it to you in the right way.

In addition, I have always…always appreciated those who have died on the battlefield and served in the armed forces to protect my freedoms and liberties…and I am doing the same today…not in the same venue…but in speaking up and speaking out to keep our freedoms and liberties.

Our enemies today are not on the battlefield in a distant land…they are in our government in our own nation!

Thank you, again, for your comments…I know you will be okay if we stick together and not condemn those who are trying to help realistically…and not just by lies and deception.

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TODAY IS THE DAY TEXAS! TONIGHT WE WILL KNOW WHO TEXAS CHOOSES TO BE THEIR GOVERNOR!

1. INCUMBENT PERRY – WHO ATTENDED THE 2007 SECRET MEETING OF THE BILDERBERG SOCIETY?

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-perry_31tex.ART.State.Edition1.43b926a.html

2. SENATOR HUTCHINSON – A MODERATE ‘FENCE SITTER’ WHO HAS BEEN IN WASHINGTON TOO LONG?

http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Kay_Bailey_Hutchison.htm

3. DEBRA MEDINA – A ‘TRUE’ CONSERVATIVE? READ THE ENDORSEMENT FROM SANDRA BEENE, CO-FOUNDER OF THE TXMINUTEMEN ON HER WEB SITE!

http://www.medinafortexas.com/

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   March 2nd, 2010 - 12:38 pm

Dear Joe R…one other note…I am now watching Bilderberg Bush-Obama on TV spewing his ‘buy the masses’ propaganda yet again.

Going to give more money incentives to citizens who still have their homes to put in insulation, etc to save energy.

That is money…Joe…that you and others need to keep food on your tables for your children.

If you want to go after someone who is the problem and against you, try the head of the fish…Bilderberg Bush-Obama.

Old saying…”the fish stinketh from the head” and this fish head really stinks!

Millions and millions being used to buy votes…when you need food to feed your family.

Contact the White House…and tell them how you feel and please stop condemming those of us who are with you not against you!

United we stand to take back our government, divided we all fall with America at their hands!

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TODAY IS THE DAY TEXAS! TONIGHT WE WILL KNOW WHO TEXAS CHOOSES TO BE THEIR GOVERNOR!

1. INCUMBENT PERRY – WHO ATTENDED THE 2007 SECRET MEETING OF THE BILDERBERG SOCIETY?

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-perry_31tex.ART.State.Edition1.43b926a.html

2. SENATOR HUTCHINSON – A MODERATE ‘FENCE SITTER’ WHO HAS BEEN IN WASHINGTON TOO LONG?

http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Kay_Bailey_Hutchison.htm

3. DEBRA MEDINA – A ‘TRUE’ CONSERVATIVE? READ THE ENDORSEMENT FROM SANDRA BEENE, CO-FOUNDER OF THE TXMINUTEMEN ON HER WEB SITE!

http://www.medinafortexas.com/

ray   March 2nd, 2010 - 1:00 pm

how dare jim be responsible about our tax dollars…
thank you senator!

Pay as you go is RIGHT!   March 2nd, 2010 - 2:49 pm

STOP SPENDING OUR MONEY!!!!!

rican   March 2nd, 2010 - 3:00 pm

GIVE THEM HELL JIM . THEY MAKE THE RULES AND WHEN ASKED TO COMPLY ALL DIRTY HARRY CAN DO IS LOOK INTO THE PAST. NOT MANY WILL MISS DIRTY HARRY, BOTOX PELOSI. HUSSEIN, GAY BARNEY AND THE REST OF THE LIBERALS THAT CONTINUE TO DESTROY AMERICA.

deadjournalism   March 2nd, 2010 - 3:18 pm

The biggest Democrat flaw is exposed here by Harry himself at 8:00. He first says “where were you, (Bunning), when we had 2 wars that were unpaid for.”

I’m sorry, is “war” a line item in our gov’t budgets? They act like War is a TV show that can just be canceled or tuned out.

And then Reid says “…and tax cuts that cost more than a trillion dollars… Unpaid for.”

Right here is the crux of the Democrat Socialist Party… A tax cut is NOT a cost. Does anyone in D.C. realize this?

Dukenukem   March 2nd, 2010 - 4:15 pm

First of all Joe R, of course I have a job, second of all Wucs, I do not live in my mom’s basement, I do in fact own my home (value $375,000) it has a basement, and incase you care, 4 cars (value $60,000) 21’ boat, 30’ camper, and I have a nice nest egg of about 650K.
I started working at 14 years old washing dishes after school 7 hours a day 6 days a week making $2.10 an hour. My old man split when I was 5 leaving my mom to raise 4 boys never taking welfare or “unemployment” and never got a dime of child support. I never went to college, and have spent the last 23 years working on straight commission in a sales job. I know a little something about motivation. Hunger is a great motivator!!!!
So for all the people sitting on their butts whining about getting “extended” benefits, that is my issue. If you earned benefits, then fine sit on your ass and milk it, but once they are gone, don’t expect for me and the other producers to support the useless eaters of this nanny society. I don’t care about you anymore…We are broke, and the end has to start somewhere, so now is a good time…Sorry pal, life sucks…Deal with it.
Duke

MaryS   March 2nd, 2010 - 9:57 pm

To Dukenukem — NICELY said sir! You sound like a fellow I’d like to know.

AlexaB   March 3rd, 2010 - 2:15 pm

Why not stop the “donations” to vicious banks and Wall Street that took all our money and gambled it away? How about the war effort in Afghanistan and Iraq? Are the terrorists gone yet? $600 billion a year for defense that can never, ever hope to eliminate terrorism. Bush and Obama – give all our money to the banks and military, then you guys cheer some filthy rich Senator who wants to deprive people of the unemployement benefits they paid into the system. Anyone thinking out there in Conserv-0 land?

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