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BIDEN:  One of Bill's colleagues is standing on the floor of the United States as we speak.  He's standing there, and preventing the Senate from being able to move forward on doing the kind of thing we're doing here today.  What's that mean? (angry) Four hundred thousand people will be kicked off the rolls this month if he has his way!



RUSH:  Come on, everybody knows these unemployment benefits are going to be extended.  It's gonna get done.  This is how the Democrats play the game trying to make it look like Bunning doesn't care.  What Bunning knows is that this country is fit to be tied over this out-of-control spending.  Jim Bunning knows that there is more anger in this country over spending than there is over any other issue.  There is more anger over spending and the economy and lack of jobs, and Jim Bunning is a hero to people here for trying to finally get the Senate to abide by its paygo rules.  But again, folks, the smidgen amount of money in this bill that Bunning is holding up? The money has already been allocated and unspent in any number of other areas. The Porkulus bill, the TARP bill, we know that not all that money has been spent. So why add to it?  Why add onto it?  It's silly and it's destructive and it's  purposeful.  Now, here's Robert Gibbs yesterday at the daily press briefing. During the Q&A, a reporter says, "Does the White House see this episode with Senator Bunning as something isolated or is there something larger you're trying to draw attention to here?"

GIBBS:  I think what we're trying to draw attention to is the fact that hundreds of thousands of people who've lost their job and lost their health care because of that and their unemployment benefits, all that is threatened because one person has decided to stop the entire process.  It's hard to bargain with somebody when, if you say, "I won't do that because of this," and you say, "Well, how about we vote on that?" and you (sic) say, "I object?"

RUSH:  As usual, the White House press secretary making absolutely zero sense, and I'm not going to waste your time or mine translating it.  Let's go to the Senate floor late yesterday, Jim Bunning.

BUNNING:  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 US Senate.  I have offered several ways to do this, including trying to negotiate with the majority leader's staff.  None have been successful.  We cannot keep adding to the debt.  It's over $14 trillion and going up fast.  If the budget that is before us passes, it will add another $1.5 trillion to the debt.
RUSH:  Dingy Harry is not interested in solving this.  He likes the press helping his party portray Republicans as heartless, cold, mean-spirited, unfeeling extremists when in fact they're trying to enforce a little spending discipline on an out-of-control Congress. I guarantee you, the anger at all this spending is huge. People know they can't live their own lives like this, and they know the government can't, either.  It's out of control, simply out of control.  Dingy Harry doesn't want to negotiate.  He wants the issue out there.  Gibbs wants the issue out there.  Obama wants it out there.  All the press wants it out there.  And this is how much, and to what a great degree, they're just out of touch with people in the country.  Here's Dingy Harry playing the violin for these poor wretches standing in line for unemployment benefits that will not be available because of the evil troll, Jim Bunning.

HARRY REID:  My friends on the other side of the aisle are opposing extending unemployment benefits for people who are out of work.  Where was my friend from Kentucky when we had two wars that were unpaid for during the Bush administration; tax cuts that cost more than a trillion dollars, unpaid for?  Where was my friend and the Republicans objecting to that?  I hope Republicans will reconsider, think about their constituents standing in the unemployment line as we speak.

RUSH:  They're not standing in the unemployment line.  They're standing in the unemployment benefits line.  I saw on CNBC today... I'm going to have to go back and see if I can source this. I think I was on CNBC where a guy, a recipient is getting 30 grand in unemployment compensation?  What did I do with that? He's getting  $30,000 of unemployment compensation.  If he's got a wife and she's unemployed, that's 60 grand. Plus they've got food stamps. If that number is pretty representative, then we can't keep going. None of this can be sustained.  Nobody is going to start looking for work.  We're now extending unemployment benefits to 99 weeks. None of this, none of this is sustainable and there's one voice of some sort of sanity addressing this issue in the United States Senate.  So Dick Durbin was next up.  He had to whine about Jim Bunning yesterday afternoon on the Senate floor.

DURBIN:  When the victims in the middle of the debate are unemployed people, I don't think that's fair.  This one young man, David Senor, showed me a list of 300 applications that he had made to try to find a job during the last year.  He said, "I go online every day," and this is a man who had worked for years, had a strong work record until he was laid off, and he said, "I just can't find anything.  I'm desperate. I'm trying everything I can think of and now you're going to cut off my unemployment benefits."

RUSH:  No your unemployment benefits are not going to be "cut off."  All these federal workers being furloughed, you know they're going to get their back pay. Nobody is going to lose a dime here.  Everybody knows this.  This little episode here is a great illustration, a microcosm of the difference in the two parties and exactly who's out of touch and who's in touch and exactly how destructive to the country as we know it the Democrat Party has become.  So it continued this morning. On the floor, Jim Bunning keeps stating his case.





BUNNING:  It's really hypocritical of the Democratic side of this aisle passing a paygo bill -- what does paygo mean?  It means you pay for the bills as they appear on the floor of the US Senate -- and then to present a bill that not only is not paid for but just paid for a little bit, paid for a third of. That was the Reid bill on the jobs bill that he presented to us: $5 billion was paid for, $10 billion was not.



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