Still today Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Democrat from Nevada and Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning are embattled
Sen. Harry Reid
in debate over a seemingly routine bill to extend unemployment benefits. Of course we should all know by now that nothing about Congress - or any other WashingTARD - for that matter is routine or mundane.
The trouble began where the bill failed to pay for any of the provisions it institutes. There is no mention of how to pay for the $10 billion for unemployment benefit extensions.
Also wrapped up in this fun little package is funding for road and highway construction which Senator Reid claims employs a million people, I’m quite sure that Senator Reid’s estimations for the number employed by this plan are exaggerated like all the other jobs numbers the White House submits on it s Recovery.gov website.
And last but not least is the “DocFix” provision which would reduce the Medicare compensation for doctors by 21%. I believe without doubt that this is one of the bigger reasons for Sen. Bunning’s blocking of the bill. This is one major sticking point with Obamacare; the reduction of Medicare expenses by screwing over the very doctors that are supposed to give the care.
Sen. Bunning is of the inclination that the various provisions in the bill should be provided for. Pointing out that Sen. Reid and the Democrats had just recently pass the PayGO legislation and are already poised to break the very law they just passed; he called the Democrats Hypocrites. Asking, “Why would you vote for a bill you knew was not going to be honored,” he said. “Why vote for a bill you knew would be violated with the first vote?”
To that point Reid shot back stating that Bunning, who suddenly is concerned with “PayGo didn’t even vote for the PayGo measure in the first place. Nor was he concerned about paying for things when President George W. Bush engaged our nation in two unfunded wars and laid out tax cuts that weren’t paid for either.
I’m confused, Sen. Bunning wants to pay for all expenditures yet didn’t vote for the PayGo measure, and didn’t attempt to pay for numerous expenditures when those expenditures were his parties. While Sen. Reid doesn’t want to use the PayGo measure he recently voted for and criticized the Bunning for not supporting the PayGo measure that he now wants to throw out the window?
Now do you understand where my term Washingtards comes from?
Of course my solution would employ a little more common sense than the WashingTARDS can handle. These three separate issues should be addressed in separate bills. The “Piggybacking” of different unrelated issues on top of one another always creates more scrums than an AHL Hockey game.
This is situation where both men are fight and both men are wrong. There is NEVER a reason not to pay for the expenditures we incur. Though I see Sen. Bunning’s point why did he wait until the country is in such turmoil before deciding to get all “fiscal” on us? The answer is simple: Bunning isn’t running for reelection this fall. He doesn’t care who he pisses off!
Thanks a million…..I mean billion, Senator. You waited until things couldn’t get any worse before you decided to get all fiscal on us. Of course with your golden fleece pension, healthcare plan you won’t need to worry about where your next paycheck is coming from or what doctor is going to be willing to treat you after a 21% pay cut to Medicare you will never have to use.
Let’s not forget Sen. Reid in all of this either. He wasn’t worried about funding expenditures when the Stimulus was passed; or the Omnibus; or when Bush passed TARP either. Fiscal responsibility is just a talking point Reid is using because now more than ever the American people are worried about it and he is trailing by double digits in the Nevada senate race.
Both of these guys have been in Congress since 1986. Where has the fiscal responsibility for the last 25 years been? It is clear to me that their reelection is all that matters to them.
My questions are: How long will it take to move this through and have it paid for? And what will the consequences be if they don’t?
Oh what a Cracked World we live in.
