Transportation furlough: One man's vote

Bunning is NOT blocking this bill "over his concern for the bill's impact on the federal budget", he's blocking it because he wants a big reduction in the current estate tax on estates over $7 million.

Both Jim Bunning (R-KY) and Harry Reid (D-NV) are traitors, the Republiscum Senator more so. Not only are these derelicts denying jobs to thousands of Americans, they are putting safety and well-being of millions on the line. The goal of the GOP is to destroy the working and middle class of the United States.

Boneheaded moves such asa this one gives the White House and Democrats welcome ammunition to rightfully paint Republicans as obstructionists interested in nothing more than pork and partisan politics. Where is Mitch McConnell on this?

http://www.political-buzz.com/

As usual Idiot-for-Life BC has it all wrong. Just like he believes Cuba is nowhere near the Gulf of Mexico, even though Havana lies along the Gulf of Mexico.
Bunning is holding up this bill because as he said, he wants it paid for and suggests it come out of the stimulus fund.
As soon as something like that is done, Bunning says he will vote for the extension.
He wants it paid for. What is wrong with that?

Unemployment in Kentucky is at 10.4%, just above the national average. They may have lost their jobs, but they haven't lost their votes -- let's hope Bunning has.

Typical republiCON politics: help the powerful and wealthy at the expense of struggling formerly employed Americans.

I am sure he also votes against healthcare reform.
The RepubliCON party is truly the party of corpo-fascists.

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41 seats is not a majority. I cannot believe how quickly the media swallows whatever the GOP is using for their latest talking points.

This is sweet. The American public is sweating to keep the lights on and this Little Caesar decides he doesn't like it, see? After not funding wars and tax breaks to the wealthy that drained our treasure, this is the issue that sticks in his craw, this is where the gravy train stops. On the backs of the unemployed.

This man should be impeached and removed from office.

Funny how The Swamp doesn't mention the tax money used to pay for these programs--tax money that is being saved by Bunning's action--but only the benefits of the spending.

But then, who expects The Swamp to report things fairlyor accurately?

Unemployment in Kentucky is at 10.4%, just above the national average. They may have lost their jobs, but they haven't lost their votes -- let's hope Bunning has.

Posted by: Kenny Bunkport | March 1, 2010 10:49 AM

Former baseball great and now U.S. Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) is retiring and not running for reelection this November.

If I were one of the furloughed workers, I'd be pushing for a class-action lawsuit against Bunning, seeking reimbursement for lost pay. I doubt Senator Bunning would be willing to pay even one day's pay to a couple thousand workers.

As usual, everyone overreacts one way or the other. My prediction is that Bunning's consent will be given no later than Wednesday this week, and the red ink will be free to flow again. IMO, this is his attempt, misguided as it may seem, to attempt further to show to the rest of Congress that our deficit is for real and will adversely affect our economy until real efforts are made to bring it under control.

Depot Jim,

Thanks for clarifying -- now I wonder if he'll try to collect unemployment.

"...is putting a couple of thousand federal transportation workers out of work this week."

This is the good news. Most of these functions could be handled by states - especially the roads.

If they furloughed a couple thosuand Amtrak workers, would anybody notice?

Posted by: John D | March 1, 2010 10:44 AM
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Geographically Stupid For Life Little Johnnie D, "the Joseph Stalin of Streamwood" - there are things on the Internet called "Search Engines" and are called Bing, Yahoo, Google, etc. Why don't you try using one for a change?
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Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) has put a hold on the extension bill, but one of the key reasons the measure is blocked is the effort of Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) to use it as a way of forcing a cut in the estate tax. Kyl is essentially leveraging the unemployed to get a deal on estate tax relief that would cost $138 billion over the next decade, according to estimates by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The estate tax has already been cut sharply, so the reduction Kyl is pushing along with Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) would affect the estates of fewer than three out of every 1,000 deceased, according to the Tax Policy Center.
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The proposal helps estates worth more than $7 million in the case of couples. I guess struggling millionaires deserve the same empathy we feel for those without a job.
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source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/28/AR2010022803370.html
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tell us, Geographically Stupid For Life Little Johnnie D: why are you too cowardly to admit that YOU are the one who claimed that Cuba was IN the Gulf of Mexico, while I AM the person who proved that it's in the Caribbean Sea?