Granted, the unemployment benefits being discussed are both unconstitutional and unethical. And I realize that Bunning has no principled opposition to the extension of those benefits per se, he just wants them to be paid for out of the Treasury's ill-gotten gains. And don't get me started on the whole broken window nonsense underlying the entire piece.
That being said, does anyone else find it comical that the Democrats and CNN are raking this guy over the coals because he dares suggest that Congress should pay for the benefits they wish to bestow on the special interest du jour, rather than adding to the deficit? How does Dana Bash manage to utter the following sentences with a straight face? "Democrats say they disagree with Senator Bunning. They call this emergency spending that does not need to be paid for."
James Madison once said, "A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both." He obviously never watched CNN, Fox News, or any of the other big-government cheerleaders masquerading as journalists. If he had, he would have realized that a popular government is itself a farce, as is the popular information supporting it.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/01/jobless.benefits.bill/index.html?eref=rss_politics&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/cnn_allpolitics+(RSS:+Politics)&utm_content=Google+Reader
Granted, the unemployment benefits being discussed are both unconstitutional and unethical. And I realize that Bunning has no principled opposition to the extension of those benefits per se, he just wants them to be paid for out of the Treasury's ill-gotten gains. And don't get me started on the whole broken window nonsense underlying the entire piece.
That being said, does anyone else find it comical that the Democrats and CNN are raking this guy over the coals because he dares suggest that Congress should pay for the benefits they wish to bestow on the special interest du jour, rather than adding to the deficit? How does Dana Bash manage to utter the following sentences with a straight face? "Democrats say they disagree with Senator Bunning. They call this emergency spending that does not need to be paid for."
James Madison once said, "A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both." He obviously never watched CNN, Fox News, or any of the other big-government cheerleaders masquerading as journalists. If he had, he would have realized that a popular government is itself a farce, as is the popular information supporting it.
- Stephen M. Smith