Et Tu Senator Jim Bunning?

In 2002 then Vice President Chaney cheered Bush’s action on my stating “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter”, alrighty then, these are the folks that literally have our lives in their hands.  Senator Jim Bunning and the majority of Republican anti Obama nay sayers were right there voting with Bush over and over again. These same two faced roughnecks were also there when The Republican Congress ran up the national debt to $8 trillion dollars.  Where were their concerns when Bush was in office?  Now all of the sudden when not only Bunning’s constituents need this extension, but so do 1.2 million Americans across this land and now he’s got a problem with spending.

Some feel there are several reasons for Bunnings decision:

• Bunning is ticked that he has to retire at 78 (one of oldest senators in office) due to lack of funds to run for office again.  Well if his current action is any indication of his thought process, maybe we need to have a limit to the age of our representatives and how long they can stay in office. 
• Bunning is holding hostage the extension until his pledge for the wealthy and their estate tax exemption to pass.

Bunnings constantly inserting both feet in his mouth:

1. Bunning predicted Justice Ruth B. Ginsburg, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, would be dead in a year, he later apologized.
2. After barely winning his 2004 re-election he told his opponent, of Italian descent, that he looked like one of Saddam Husseins’s sons.  Again he had to apologized.
3. He’s had a ongoing public feud with another representative of Kentucky, GOP floor leader Mich McConnell. 
4. Today’s latest temper tantrum and his memorable three fingered salute to an American citizen.

In his home state of Kentucky on Tuesday, a crowd of about 150 showed up at his offices in Lexington.  Several had place cards one read;  “Stand Tall Sen. Bunning. You are pitching a perfect game.  Another read;  Senator Al Franken is a comedian.  Jim Bunning is a bad joke.

I believe the placement of a person of color in the White House has thrown those with supposedly sterling reputations, backgrounds, level headed adults, educated persons back into the stone age.  The blatant racist attitudes toward the President are not lost on the population here or abroad.  Such uncouth behavior from the Governor of South Carolina, calling the President a liar, was totally uncalled for and unprecedented, Senator Dole snidely remarking at the end of a speech that the president isn’t a rock star anymore.  Open remarks by these supposedly learned men that the health care bill was going to be Obama’s Waterloo. 

With all the lies and stupid rumors circulating about the Health care program with crys of death panels I could not believe that the American public was that gullible. It really seemed that our politicians had us pegged correctly as mere sheep in need of fleecing.  But these latest development should open the eyes of the sheep to see we’re being played.  I am mad and all of those who call themselves Americans should be angry.  This is what our representatives think of us, just so much fodder to toss around for political reasons.  Ignoring our wants and needs in a feeble attempt to make the head guy look bad. 

Have we become so callous that we’re willing to standby and let some obviously either drunken, senile or under medicated old fool, put millions out on the street?  Women and children lying awake night not knowing where they’ll sleep or if they’ll eat.  Leaving them to the elements because of one mans agendas?  This is not the United States, that my grandfather, father, husband and son fought for, this is not my country that I grew up being proud to be a part.   The American tapestry, the home of the free and the brave, belongs to the haves and to hell with the have nots.  This is not the America I remember.