How Does 27,000 Abandoned Oil Wells In The Gulf Of Mexico Sound To You? Call it what you want, "The Redneck Riviera" or the Gulf Of Mexico, but this is a place exploited by Corporate America and the beginning of the end of a beautiful pristine part of the world, unless of course, we find a way to clean up all of the pollution Corporate America has dumped on it. It would be easy to say "you, the folks living on or near the Gulf Of Mexico made your bed now lie in it", but that would be insincere because the corporate ass kissers like Senator Mitch McConnell and Senator Jim Bunning, here in Kentucky, have voted consistently to dump corporate shit on you.
So what's new? Hal Rogers, Ed Whitfield and Brett Guthrie showed their true colors and when they had a chance to stand up for seniors on Medicare they voted "Nay" to kill H R 4213 and allow a 21% cut in Medicare payments to physicians essentially killing Medicare as we know it. Geoff Davis was a no show and didn't even bother to vote.
Huffington Post When Sen. Jim Bunning complained on the Senate floor in February that he'd missed the Kentucky-South Carolina basketball game because of a debate on unemployment benefits -- a debate the Kentucky Republican himself prevented from proceeding to a vote -- Bruce Shore got angry. "I was livid. I was just livid," said Shore, 51, who watched the floor proceedings on C-SPAN from his home in Philadelphia. "I'm on unemployment, so it affects me. I'm in shock." Read More
Here in Kentucky Progressives have gotten quite used to the hypocrisy of the Senator who represents Communist China for the state of Kentucky, Mitch McConnell. However, even as hypocritical as he has always been in fighting against working men and women all over the world, sometimes his stunning hypocrisy actually manages to surprise. Like on the banking bailout and new regulations. Of all folks in Washington it seems McConnell would be the one that would just want to keep his mouth shut. I guess when you have gotten away with flat-out lies and rank hypocrisy for so long however, you just expect to keep doing it.
April 13, 2010 my wife went to the Dr. When she left the receptionist gave her a hand out signed by all the Doctors in the complex suggesting she call Mitch Mcconnell, Jim Bunning and Brett Guthrie and let them know that a 21% Medicare payments to physicians could force physicians to stop accepting Medicare patients. Click here to view the handout or view it after the fold. We took the Doctors advice and called Senator Mitch Mcconnell (202) 224-2541, Senator Jim Bunning (859) 341-2620 and Congressman Brett Guthrie (202) 225-3501.
Ah, the Republicans. Behind the guise of Christianity, fiscal responsibility, small government, or whatever they are calling it this week they constantly are seeking to find ways to show their complete scorn and hatred for their country and the folks within it who are just hoping to make enough money to move their families into the middle-class. We all remember how Jim Bunning, the most maniacal looney toon junior Senator from Kentucky sought to deny benefits to the workers Republicans policies displace by crashing the economy. Now, it appears as if that move was not heartless enough and another Republican has decided to once again show the American worker just how much scorn and hatred Republicans have for them. Yes, Tom Coburn is seeking to "Out-Bunning" the master himself, Jim Bunning.
According to our source Senators from each state were supposed visit the young people last night, March 10, 2010, attending the 2010 United States Senate Youth Program Washington Week. Well guess what? Senators Jim Bunning and Mitch McConnell didn't show up. The Youth program sent the senators an invitation, Jim Bunning refused and Mitch McConnell didn't respond. When Mitch McConnell didn't respond another invitation letter was sent along with an email and Senator Mitch McConnell still didn't respond. Senator Mitch McConnell HONORARY CO-CHAIR of the 2010 UNITED STATES SENATE YOUTH PROGRAM ADVISORY COMMITTEE and he didn't respond?
The Kentucky Senate race was getting quite boring. Leave it to eccentric, Looney Tune Jim Bunning to heat things up. One would like to think that the outgoing Senator who was shunned by the McConnell machine because he is a can or two short of a six pack decided to shake up this race but then you realize that well, Bunning is a can or two short of a six pack. However, his callous, uncaring and hypocritical "stand" earlier this week against the nation's unemployed has indeed ignited the Kentucky Senate race, which quite frankly was becoming a yawner.
March 2, 2010 Lexington, Kentucky Democratic candidate for the US Senate Daniel Mongiardo, standing in front of senator Jim Bunning's Lexington, Kentucky's office, let Jim Bunning and Rand Paul know exactly how he feels about the unemployment extension block. Rand Paul supporters were there to support Senator Jim Bunning. Both the Mongiardo and the Bunning supporters were very vocal. I didn't do a head count, but it appeared to me there was an equal number of people there for both sides of this issue. Click here to view Mongiardo's video. We also shot video of the Rand Paul and Jim Bunning supporters, click here to see that video. Click here to view photos of the event. Joe Sonka over at Barefoot and Progressive was also there, click here to see his post and video. His video is also after the fold.
I even got in the mix.
Bluegrass Politics James Pence and Earl Newberry exchanged words during protests outside U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning’s Lexington office.
Boy, the world of the Republican mind can be quite twisted. A Republican Senator from Kentucky who is retiring and has clearly been off his rocker for some time does what every Republican in their heart wants to do and blocks unemployment benefits for millions of workers Republican policies displaced as well as costing jobs and threatening the Television access of rural Americans and somehow that is the fault of the Democrats. However a deeper look shows that this is just what Republicans want and as usual with any move by the national Republican Party is ripe with fresh hypocrisy.
By now everyone knows about the block Jim Bunning decided to put on unemployment benefits. However, this move did not just effect the unemployed. All across America many federal programs will furlough 2,000 other workers without pay and will indefinately end construction projects across the country.
When Jim Bunning blocked unemployment benefits for those who lost their jobs due to the economy he helped crashed I would have to say that most Republicans were pretty torn. I mean, Kentucky's Repubican Senate candidates were all for it, and stated so publicly but in the Republican leadership there seems to be a little angst. See, Republicans simply cannot afford to let the American people hear how they really feel, but deep inside they are all Jim Bunning.
Huffington Post Jim Bunning, a Republican from Kentucky, is single-handedly blocking Senate action needed to prevent an estimated 1.2 million American workers from prematurely losing their unemployment benefits next month. Read more.
One thing we have known in Kentucky for a long time now whatever political stripe you are is quite simply, Jim Bunning is the crazy uncle of Kentucky politics. His antics have been well documented, forcing Mitch McConnell to use his machine to force the walking embarrassment to a disgraced party out of the race in favor of someone he hopes can actually win against either strong candidate the Democrats can field. Well, now we are finding out that if a Repubican is elected in Kentucky we will not only lose a crazy uncle, but gain a crazy nephew.
Working America According to Reuters,
attempts by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to move an
emergency unemployment aid extension in the Senate are being thwarted: Reid
had hoped to quickly pass a short-term extension of unemployment
benefits for more than a million people to ensure they are not
terminated at the end of February, but Republican Senator Jim Bunning
blocked it.
Policy advocates on Capitol Hill this morning confirmed that Sen. Bunning (R-KY)
is currently holding up an emergency measure to extend the expanded
federal support for unemployment insurance and COBRA subsidies set to
expire in three days.
A spokesman for Senator Bunning said this
morning that Bunning had objected to Senator Reid's unanimous consent
request to proceed on the measure, citing a dispute over how it should
be funded.
Kentucky's jobless rate, which exceeds the national average, increased to 10.7%
in December, the last month of available state statistics. Numerous
counties in Kentucky report unemployment rates of 13% or more, as can
be seen on this Washington Postinteractive map of unemployment rates by state and county. (click on the map to zoom in) Several counties in rural eastern Kentucky have jobless rates of 15% or higher, including Magoffin County at 21.4%. Read More
