I realize that is a statement that will infuriate many. So be it. If the people that become enraged by the words don’t look to understand them, perhaps they should join those already in the rubber rooms.
I was looking around on Huffington Post this morning, which is, not exactly a Republican place of worship, but they generally get the facts correct, unlike Fox News. Perhaps opinion is offered afterwards, but the facts are not distorted. An article speaking about an appearance of Former Representative Tom Delay (let’s see… didn’t he have to leave the Congress in disgrace, so why should his opinions count for anything beyond the disposition of his own person?) on CNN and his rather inflammatory comments.
Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay called Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) “brave” on Sunday for launching a one-man filibuster of unemployment benefits, arguing that they dissuaded people from going out and finding work.
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the Texas Republican said that Bunning’s fiscal responsibility was commendable, even if his shenanigans (refusing to allow unemployment benefits to be considered by unanimous consent) nearly brought the Senate to a halt.
“Nothing would have happened if the Democrats had just paid for [the benefits],” Delay said. “People would have gotten their unemployment compensation. I think Bunning was brave in standing up there and taking it on by himself.”
Asked whether it was bad strategy to make a budget stand on a $10 billion extension of unemployment (as opposed to, say, the Bush’s $720 billion prescription drug package), Delay insisted that if the PR had been done right, Bunning would have been applauded. Helping the unemployed with federal assistance, he said, was unsound policy.
“You know,” Delay said, “there is an argument to be made that these extensions, the unemployment benefits keeps people from going and finding jobs. In fact there are some studies that have been done that show people stay on unemployment compensation and they don’t look for a job until two or three weeks before they know the benefits are going to run out.
Host Candy Crowley: Congressman, that’s a hard sell, isn’t it?
Delay: it’s the truth.
Crowley: People are unemployed because they want to be?
Delay: well, it is the truth. and people in the real world know it. And they have friends and they know it. Sure, we ought to be helping people that are unemployed find a job, but we also have budget considerations that are incredibly important, especially now that Obama is spending monies that we don’t have.
I have a few questions for this imbecile.
1] Was this man not a part of the Congress when George Bush hoodwinked this nation into going to war, and went along with spending money not yet available for that war? Deficit spending is something the Republicans love to do, as long as they can’t be held accountable, and it lines their pockets. After all, they voted for tax reductions when deficits were shown, so it’s clear that responsible governing is just a foreign concept. Unfortunately, the only Democrat I have seen willing to hold these dimwits’ feet to the fire is Al Franken, a man that seems to be more interested in doing the right thing than being popular with the nation. Oh, if there were only 59 more like him in the Senate, and 240 in the House.
2] If there are so many jobs awaiting people that are unemployed, you might think that Fox News, the word of God, according to these dimwits, would be featuring the hundreds of thousands of open jobs waiting to be filled. After all there must be one or two Republicans that have lost their job, ostensibly because their employer did not check for the [R] before laying them off.
3] I assume that this man believes that only Democrats are unemployed. After all, hard working (or eminently self-serving anyway) Republicans are certainly taking care of themselves by any means possible, right? (and I do mean any means)
4] Can anyone capable of rational thought really say that losing a job, a home, a family unit, or worse wishes that for himself?
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