Jim Bunning Starves 1.2 Million People

    The Huffington Post reported today that Kentucky senator Jim Bunning, who is not running for re-election, staged a 1-man filibuster and would not give his consent to extending Federal unemployment benefits for a 30-day period until Congress can pass more detailed unemployment extension legislation. The GOP leadership did not support Bunning in his crusade to keep $10 billion from being added to the Federal deficit. This will not stand, of course, but in the interim state governments who collectively are facing a $250 billion shortfall will have to make up the difference. To top off this inexplicable act of cruelty Bunning complained about missing a basketball game. Didn’t he get a chance to call his bookie? I guess the chance to play President Bunning for at least one evening was just too enticing to pass up. Even with the American people suffering through daily examples of a totally broken legislative process this perfidious act of “fiscal discipline” strains the cerebral cortex. Jim Bunning, All-American asshole! And he sucked when he pitched for the Pirates too!