Tedious old coot searches for new cloud to shout at

Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky) has finally realized that given the choice, even ReaLAMEricans prefer food and shelter to high-flown rhetoric about big gubbermint [via AssPress]:

A Republican that had been stubbornly blocking a stopgap measure to extend help for the jobless relented on Tuesday under withering assaults from Democrats and dwindling support within his own party.

Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky had been single-handedly blocking the $10 billion measure, causing federal furloughs and threatening the unemployment benefits of hundreds of thousands of people. He was seeking to force Democrats to find ways to finance the bill so that it wouldn’t add to the deficit, but his move sparked a political tempest that has subjected Republicans to withering media coverage and cost the party politically.

While Bunning wanders around in search of a new cloud to shout at or an imaginary squirrel he can chase away from the bird house, we can look forward to the following from the blithering classes:
1. 25,000 words on how Bunning’s capitulation is horrible news for the Democrats.
2. 48,000 words on whether Congress can survive under the steel-toed jackboots of the Democrats.
3. 76,502 words on what Democrats should do to make up for this unseemly display of partisanship.

Enjoy!

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You’re psychic. In my quick spin around the media dial last night, I saw that only MSNBC pointed out that Bunning had repeatedly signed blank checks for GWB’s ill-considered wars, endorsed tax cuts for the rich, had declined to sign onto Pay-Go, etc.

And of course Tweety Matthews painted Bunning as some sort of iconic truth-teller, apparently on the strength of Bunning’s past career on Tweety’s favorite goddamned baseball team.

Comment by Betty Cracker on 03/03/10 at 05:50 AM

Yeah Tweety was disgusting, you can tell that he pretty much suffers from the lack of competent producers/researchers. It’s either that or he just totally ignored the utterly hypocritical voting history. He prides himself as such an insider, he should know Bunnings checkered past as well as dirty-ass baseball behavior. This is where his knee-jerk contrarianism makes him look like a slightly more sanitized Buchananesk apologist.

Comment by Manamongst Hussein on 03/03/10 at 10:08 AM

by “checkered past” I was referring to his loonie-ass’d behavior…

He (tweety) actually tried to (don’t know if youd call it this) throw McConnell under the bus for motivating Bunning to retire from the Senate.

Smartest move of the year if you ask me. Tweety is always off, sometimes a little…this time a lot. Dementia? Schizo? A dabble of both…hell yeah, seriously who’s out to get this old coot?

Comment by Manamongst Hussein on 03/03/10 at 10:13 AM

Didn’t Bunning immediately turn around and put a hold on ALL Executive branch appointments?

Comment by justlen on 03/03/10 at 11:03 AM

justlen, I thought this latest stunt was what he turned to after he lifted the hold on all nominations. But I admit keeping track of the fRighties’ gyrations makes me a bit ... [urp] dizzy.

Comment by Hunger Tallest Palin on 03/03/10 at 11:20 AM

Doesn’t Bunning still want the Estate Tax repealed? That was his original demand for a vote on the bill.

Obviously, the elevator video and the news that he was causing thousands to be laid off made him go wobbly in the knees. But he still wants something, and now he’s going to hold up all of Obama’s appointments.

He’s old and retiring, so he has nothing to lose. Maybe this is a preview of what Congress would look like every day with term limits. ;->