Jim Bunning to Unemployed and Dems: TOUGH SHIT

[big_electron]

www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/jim-bunning-repeatedly-bl_n_477910.html

Typical Republitard! Had no trouble voting for extensions to Bush's wars, money to Blackwater...

[ironbite]

Now while the other guy has a point....it's still the GOP who's got the problem. with this.

Ironbite-gods I hate the GOP right now...they are determined to fuck over America no matter what.

[tiado]

Feb 27, 2010 1:24:06 GMT -5 big_electron said:

www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/jim-bunning-repeatedly-bl_n_477910.html

Typical Republitard! Had no trouble voting for extensions to Bush's wars, money to Blackwater...

He's just a republican senator who doesn't care about the little guy, and is also not seeking reelection, so he cares even less.

But yeah, I have a really good friend on UI who will now probably end up homeless because of this fuckwit's filibustering.

[big_electron]

And at one point during the debate, which dragged on till nearly midnight, Bunning complained of missing a basketball game.

"I have missed the Kentucky-South Carolina game that started at 9:00," he said,
"and it's the only redeeming chance we had to beat South Carolina since they're the only team that has beat Kentucky this year.

All I can say is, "Tough shit!"

[Damen]

I wish I could take the Senate floor just to be able to say; "I would like to address Senator Bunning. You, sir, are a fucker."

[Armand Tanzarian]

Can't believe no one posted this.

[big_electron]

@ Ganja: that's because I spent my time at YT searching for "jim bunning tough shit"

[dasfuchs]

Feb 27, 2010 1:43:48 GMT -5 ironbite said:

Now while the other guy has a point....it's still the GOP who's got the problem. with this.

Ironbite-gods I hate the GOP right now...they are determined to fuck over America no matter what.

I don't think they intentionally want to fuck over the US as much as they just don't want to agree with an....ew *shudder* democrat...the horror and all

[kristine]

reading more on this didn't he say he would agree to it if they paid for it out of TARP instead of the new budget loan?

[Amaranth]

Feb 27, 2010 10:41:05 GMT -5 dasfuchs said:

I don't think they intentionally want to fuck over the US as much as they just don't want to agree with an....ew *shudder* democrat...the horror and all

Yeah, better to let your country go down in flames than make a Democrat look good.

[dantesvirgil]

Feb 27, 2010 12:21:59 GMT -5 kristine said:

reading more on this didn't he say he would agree to it if they paid for it out of TARP instead of the new budget loan?

I believe that's right.

[big_electron]

Feb 27, 2010 12:21:59 GMT -5 kristine said:

reading more on this didn't he say he would agree to it if they paid for it out of TARP instead of the new budget loan?

TARP = fill in the blank

[kristine]

wooooow...this is an...interesting guy if what is said here is true...

Shut down Jim Bunning's "charitable" fraud
www.salon.com/news/opinion/joe_conason/index.html?story=/opinion/conason/2010/02/26/bunning

Here’s a suggestion for anyone who runs into the former baseball pitcher on the Senate floor. Tell him that if he is truly worried about the deficit, he should stop using the Jim Bunning Foundation to shelter the money he makes from baseball memorabilia.

Ever since he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Bunning has operated this phony “charitable” operation as a front for his business selling autographed balls. As this outfit’s sole employee, working one hour a week, he has paid himself hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past 10 years — considerably more than the amount donated to any actual charity.

ndeed, the only charities to which the foundation gives any significant sums are Catholic churches attended by Bunning and his family (so he gets other people to make his religious donations as well). Perhaps those churches ought to reconsider accepting his generosity in light of his nasty conduct toward the unemployed, whose plight is a matter of grave concern to the Catholic hierarchy.

Clearly Bunning is a man of low character, even for someone who belongs to what Twain described as “our only distinctly native American criminal class.” Not only does he exploit a charitable foundation to avoid taxes and ethics rules while greasing his own palm; he actually put a Washington lobbyist on the foundation board — and then arranged budget earmarks for clients of that same lobbyist, who oversees his self-dealing scam. Someone ought to file an ethics complaint against this dreadful, dishonest man.

[booley]

Feb 27, 2010 1:24:06 GMT -5 big_electron said:

www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/jim-bunning-repeatedly-bl_n_477910.html

Typical Republitard! Had no trouble voting for extensions to Bush's wars, money to Blackwater...

well if those unemployed really deserved the money, they would already be wealthy.

[dasfuchs]

Feb 27, 2010 18:26:23 GMT -5 kristine said:

wooooow...this is an...interesting guy if what is said here is true...

Shut down Jim Bunning's "charitable" fraud
www.salon.com/news/opinion/joe_conason/index.html?story=/opinion/conason/2010/02/26/bunning

Here’s a suggestion for anyone who runs into the former baseball pitcher on the Senate floor. Tell him that if he is truly worried about the deficit, he should stop using the Jim Bunning Foundation to shelter the money he makes from baseball memorabilia.

Ever since he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Bunning has operated this phony “charitable” operation as a front for his business selling autographed balls. As this outfit’s sole employee, working one hour a week, he has paid himself hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past 10 years — considerably more than the amount donated to any actual charity.

ndeed, the only charities to which the foundation gives any significant sums are Catholic churches attended by Bunning and his family (so he gets other people to make his religious donations as well). Perhaps those churches ought to reconsider accepting his generosity in light of his nasty conduct toward the unemployed, whose plight is a matter of grave concern to the Catholic hierarchy.

Clearly Bunning is a man of low character, even for someone who belongs to what Twain described as “our only distinctly native American criminal class.” Not only does he exploit a charitable foundation to avoid taxes and ethics rules while greasing his own palm; he actually put a Washington lobbyist on the foundation board — and then arranged budget earmarks for clients of that same lobbyist, who oversees his self-dealing scam. Someone ought to file an ethics complaint against this dreadful, dishonest man.

The world's biggest cases of Irony are usually right inside US politics anymore. All the people claiming morals and values seem to be the ones without either