{"id":671,"date":"2010-02-27T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=671"},"modified":"2010-02-27T02:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T10:50:00","slug":"gop-sweetheart-%e2%80%93-2272010-jim-bunning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/27\/gop-sweetheart-%e2%80%93-2272010-jim-bunning\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Sweetheart \u2013 2\/27\/2010: Jim Bunning"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOPgo\"<\/a> I\u2019ve read several rants blaming Democrats for letting Bunning get away with this, but that\u2019s not fair.  The Republican and Democratic leadership had agrees to pass this measure by unanimous consent, and most of the Senators left for the weekend.  The Democratic leadership had no idea that Bunning planned this, and when he dropped the bomb, there were no longer sixty Senator\u2019s left to override his filibuster.  The net effect is that the GOP derailed several important programs in addition to cutting off unemployment benefits for thousands of workers, displaced by the GOP\u2019s No Millionaire Left Behind<\/em><\/strong> program.  They can now lie and say they did not know either, blaming it all on Bunning, who is not seeking reelection.<\/p>\n

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In the midst of the worst economy in decades, Republican U.S. Senator Jim Bunning last night again took to the floor of the United States Senate to block passage of legislation that would extend unemployment benefits to out-of-work Americans — and his party is doing nothing to stop him.<\/font><\/p>\n

It’s worth watching his mean-spirited obstructionism — and Harry Reid’s and Dick Durbin’s attempts to cajole him into supporting the legislation — to get a sense of just how committed some Republicans are to doing the wrong thing for America<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Bunning is the poster-child of the most callous, heartless political party in modern American history, and they are proud of it<\/font><\/strong>. If they get their way, this coming Sunday, unemployment benefits will expire for countless out-of-work Americans because a handful of extremist ideologues decided to tie the U.S. Senate up in knots\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Only a true GOP Sweetheart could be so heartless and so devious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve read several rants blaming Democrats for letting Bunning get away with this, but that\u2019s not fair.  The Republican and Democratic leadership had agrees to pass this measure by unanimous consent, and most of the Senators left for the weekend.  The Democratic leadership had no idea that Bunning planned this, and when he dropped the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}