Posted on 02/26/2010 11:19:10 PM PST by Santa Fe_Conservative
WASHINGTON Some unemployment benefits could dry up Monday. Newly laid-off workers wouldn't get federal help with health insurance premiums.
Road and transit bills could go unpaid, Medicare payments to doctors would stay high and rural satellite reception could be affected, all thanks to Sen. Jim Bunning's decision to block legislation that would keep alive a host of programs that expire Sunday night.
The Kentucky Republican, according to several sources, told Democratic colleagues "tough s---" Thursday when they tried to get him to change his mind.
The Senate is expected to consider a longer-term extension of the programs Monday, with passage likely next week.
The House of Representatives passed the extension by voice vote, and the Senate was expected to go along. Then along came Bunning, a fiscal conservative, who objected because Congress didn't pay for the $10 billion bill.
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If they don’t count the offsets here, they will spend this “free” money someplace else.
I think PAYGO is stupid. But if that is the stupid rule, they should at least follow it. The only thing worse than PAYGO is pretend PAYGO.
I respectfully disagree. Bunning has had no problem putting Iraq and Af/Pak war expenditures on the country's Chinese credit card. To me, that's not fiscal conservatism. That's just picking and choosing what you want to prtend to be "fiscally conservative" about.
Then you should do more research on Bunning’s legislative record. He was demanding offsets for war spending as far back as 2002.
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