By Mr. Curmudgeon
If all you hear is the Democratic leadership, and their mouthpieces in the media, you’d think Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) wants to eat your kids. Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accused Bunning of “standing between these…families and the help they need while these benefits expire...” Reid was speaking of a Senate measure to extend funding for unemployment benefits and government make-work infrastructure projects. In reality, all Bunning did was object to a Senate unanimous consent order, which allowed the Senate to increase the nation’s debt by 10 billion dollars – breaking a pay-as-you-go law recently passed by the Senate at President Obama’s request. When confronted with this fact, Reid accused Bunning of “lecturing the country on pay-go, something he didn’t vote for.” That may be so, but Reid and his Democratic majority certainly did. But they won’t let the laws they pass get in the way of buying votes.
Not to be outdone by her Democratic colleagues, the Rhino Republican from Maine, Sen. Susan Collins, pleaded on behalf of adding to the nation’s crushing debt. “I want to emphasize that this issue is so important on senators on both side of the aisle. Many of my colleagues have expressed concerns to me that this was not done last week...”
Conservative Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) told the New York Times, “We have to quit complaining about unsustainable debt and passing new spending programs every week.”
In the end, Sen. Bunning, pressured by big-spending compassionate conservative Republicans, relented to allow billions more to be heaped on our mountainous national debt.
It’s disingenuous for Democrats to claim they couldn’t have found $10 billion dollars to siphon away from Obama’s pork-filled $3.5 trillion dollar budget. ACRON can certainly do without funding from sugar daddy Washington. And the aren’t the only ones.
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