Bunning, Kyl prove the GOP couldn't care less about the unemployed

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Tuesday March 02, 2010 · 12:21 AM PST

2010/03/02 · 00:21

As if Jim DeMint's parading around the state with teabagger Marco Rubio - who's running for U.S. Senate in Florida - wasn't enough to tell people they don't care about those who are jobless, we have more from a pair who just wear the tag of: PEOPLE DON'T MATTER, JUST VOTE FOR ME.

Let me share with you the pink elephant, U.S. Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky. Here's a clown who's even been told by prominent GOP members to not even run this time. But alas, he couldn't care less. It's all about the power.

Since last week, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) has been obstructing legislation to extend unemployment benefits, telling Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) "tough sh*t" when Merkley pleaded with Bunning to drop the hold on the Senate floor. Bunning blocked the measure because of "a dispute over how [the bill] should be funded," leaving 400,000 Americans in limbo after the benefits expired at midnight on Sunday.

Here's the video of Bunning doing what he does best...

Off camera, when ABC producer Z. Byron Wolf tried to engage Bunning, he said, "I’m not talking to anybody" and gave Wolf the middle finger.

Yep. Good ol' Republican values. I am getting so fed up with these pathetic people who use those that are hurting and in need for political gain. They treat people as pawns so that they can get paid by tax dollars to do just these type of things to us.

And then we have U.S. Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona.

Unemployment insurance "doesn't create new jobs. In fact, if anything, continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work," Kyl said during debate over whether unemployment insurance and other benefits that expired amid GOP objections Sunday should be extended. "I'm sure most of them would like work and probably have tried to seek it, but you can't argue that it's a job enhancer. If anything, as I said, it's a disincentive. And the same thing with the COBRA extension and the other extensions here," said Kyl.

h/t ThinkProgress.org

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