According to KGW news, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) reported that when he tried to plead with Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) to relent on his blockage of the bill to temporarily extend unemployment benefits, Senator Bunning replied, "tough shit."
Well, Senator Bunning is retiring, so he has no political stake in helping his state's unemployed since he doesn't need to appeal to voters, but the starkness of his opinion of the unemployed is quite breathtaking. Forget decorum - that went out the window a long time ago - when Bunning said, "tough shit" to the unemployed, he was showing his true colors.
Frankly, I think he's a disgusting little man, to be able to vote to go to war in Iraq, vote for the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and the expansion of Medicare, and end up adding to the federal debt by $2.7 trillion, while objecting to the $10 billion unemployment extensions. Only a selfish, little man with lifetime healthcare and pension, could be so callous to try to prevent the extension of unemployment benefits to Americans.
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