Media Ignores Bomb Threats at Senator Bunning's Offices
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 5:38 AM
On February 13th in his Weekly Address Barack Obama congratulated Congress for restoring a requirement that the federal government spend only what it can afford by passing the Pay-Go legislation. Obama also lectured America on politicians who “talk the talk but won’t walk the walk” on fiscal responsibility.
This was the day after Obama and democrats authorized $1.9 trillion more federal debt.
Now, two weeks later the Democratic Congress wants to extend unemployment benefits and has no way to pay for it. Because of this, Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) is blocking the legislation. Senator Bunning’s mistake is that he believed the president and democrats when they signed the Pay-Go legislation two weeks ago. Yesterday, he told the senate, “If we can’t find $10 billion to pay for something that we all support, we will never pay for anything on the floor of the U.S. Senate.”
Bunning’s stand has infuriated the democratic-media complex.
Here is today’s Yahoo homepage:
Lone senator blocks benefits for many
The situation is so bad that Senator Bunning’s offices have been threatened twice in the last week with a bomb attack.
WTVQ reported:
Funny. These bomb threats aren’t getting much play by the state-run media. A search on “Bunning bomb threat” at Google came up with only 6 hits.
They’re too busy demonizing the angry senator (“Bunning angry” at Google came up with 192 hits) for not being like the democrats.
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shibumi commented:
Not surprised.
I’m in the Detroit area, and the local media is framing this as “Republicans don’t want to give money to the unemployed.” There is NO mention of the fact that they are just trying to get the money to fund the bill, as per “pay go” which Obama signed. All they see is “I won’t get my Government ca$h.”
Gman commented:
once again liberals threaten violence but somehow it the conservatives that the MSM will always say are the violent ones.
Male Silverback commented:
All the while as I scan the comments at Yahoo news most people are unaware that Obama signed Paygo into law. Most people out there in this beautiful country do not follow politics close enough to deserve the right to comment on political matters.
Unfortunately, these are the same morons who put a socialist in the White House.
viral warning commented:
Male Silverback
March 2nd, 2010 | 11:02 am | #3
too true.
Most voters for Barry are just enablers to a drunk.
StrangernFiction commented:
Shame on any Republican who doesn’t stand with this man.
Gary Gross commented:
Dana Milbank’s column is the perfect example of fact-free reporting on the Bunning subject.
Galt commented:
The Progressives are on a crusade — they do not oppose violence committed in the support of Nanny State omnipotence.
So don’t dare demand fiscal responsibility. Or try to defend your God-given individual liberties. Those are sins against Progressivism.
I doubt any violence will befall Bunning. But I do think others will think twice before risking being declared an enemy of the Nanny State or its rent-seeking goon squads.
Is this America?
bg commented:
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OT.. threat related:
ht AIFD
Free speech is under assault
[If it seems like suppression of free speech is gaining ground in
all corners of the globe, you may be more right than you realize.
It is not just Iranian dissidents or Venezuelan journalists
being muzzled. Foreign totalitarians and zealots are after us, too.
Constitutionalists are becoming increasingly concerned about "libel tourism," a legal phenomenon that allows foreign nationals to sue Americans for libel, first through the courts of a foreign country, then
in U.S. courts.]
re: previous post:
Lawmaker aims to protect Arizonans from libel tourism
[“If someone here feels that someone in London is supporting terrorism, they might be considerably less likely to speak out if they know that some Saudi billionaire is prepared to sue them for defamation,” Bodney said. “I think legislation like this is hugely important, particularly as more people are communicating routinely on Web sites via the Internet.”
[..]
Jasser, who addressed the committee, declined to identify the person threatening to sue him, saying that person made confidentiality a condition of not filing suit. But he said it was someone wealthy and from the Middle East.
“I am willing to accept standards of freedom of speech in the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights,” Jasser said. “But I’m not willing
to hold myself accountable to standards of freedom of speech in London, the Emirates or Saudi Arabia.”]
this could affect all of us one way or another..
it’s about our FREEDOM OF SPEECH, which
Obama is already working hard at stifling..
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CtheP commented:
“Funny. These bomb threats aren’t getting much play by the state-run media.
They’re too busy demonizing the senator for not being like the democrats.”
Actually, they are too busy trying to tie that idiot leftist kamikazi pilot Stack to the Tea Party movement.
bg commented:
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bares repeating..
Barack Obama: Americans Are Tired of Politicians
Who Don’t Walk the Walk on Fiscal Responsibility
Senator Jim Bunning: Walking the Walk on Fiscal Responsibility
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Dell commented:
Senator Bunning shoved it up Harry Reid’s behind and twisted it off. Now the usual, customary and totally expected spin machine, enabled by the Obama Media Network, turns it into a smear of Bunning. The problem is SENATOR BUNNING DOESN’T CARE. He’s not running for re-election and – for once – somebody is standing up for adherence to the law.
Bunning offered an instant solution. Harry Reid refused to consider it.
The Elector of Saxony commented:
Did anyone see the clueless woman featured on CNN American Morning who was engaged to comment upon the “evil” Sen Bunning? Poster child for everything that is wrong with this country. “Sen. Bunning is out of touch, just wants us poor people to starve in the streets.” “Why can’t he make jobs?” “We need our unemployment money to continue! (though is has been a year for this woman)
I would bet one million billion trillion dollars, (Al Gore’s annual jet fuel costs), that this misguided, foolish creature voted for Obama and high fived everyone she encountered after doing so. What has her Dear Leader done to improve the economy? Why has unemployment hit double digits? Why can’t the Messiah bring forth the free flow of jobs? He has the Presidency and had an unstoppable majority in Congress.
Instead of blaming Senator Bunning, my dear woman, you may want to start looking to the Kenyan Kannonball up there in the White House. You might even try to determine whether or not you should be responsible for your own life, rather than reflexively sticking out the beggars bowl to be filled with tax money.
It is truly amazing how many people simply refuse to do for themselves and excoriate anyone who tries to put the brakes on the runaway gravy train!
The CNN coverage has been a priceless example of journalistic malfeasance, has it not? “Millions are out of work, but one Republican Senator is refusing to allow them to get jobless benefits.” “To those struggling along on unemployment, it looks like the Republican Party has just made life a bit worse with the latest filibuster to deny Americans their rightful unemployment benefit checks” “Republicans are stopping an extension of unemployment payments to jobless workers. Senator Bunning, REPUBLICAN of Kentucky claims to want to know how the federal government will pay for these benefits.” “Let’s talk to some unemployed Americans to get feedback on Republican Party efforts to starve them and their children.” No wonder the MSM is going out of business!
bg commented:
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bares repeating:
Obama signs ‘pay as you go’ legislation into law
[Measured against the size of the economy, the 1.556 trillion budget shortfall in 2010 would equal a hefty and unsustainable 10.6 percent of the gross domestic product, the basic measure of a country's overall economic output.
Vowing to rein in this trend, the president praised so-called "pay as you go" legislation that he has just signed into law and that prevents Congress from approving new spending unless it is offset by budgetary cuts elsewhere.
But Obama said this measure alone will not be enough. He recalled that this year he had proposed another 20 billion dollars in budget cuts and called for a freeze in government spending for three years.
The president has also proposed a bipartisan fiscal commission
to provide recommendations for long-term deficit reduction.
"Unfortunately this proposal -- which received the support of a bipartisan majority in the Senate -- was recently blocked," Obama noted. "So, I will be creating this commission by executive order."]
fyi: Obama Pay Go videos being sucked up by his black
hole machine faster than lightening strikes from the net..
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Major Kong commented:
Just imagine the reactions and actions of those who have lost, or never had the ability to be self-sufficient due to liberally created Big Government, when the well actually does run dry. Ain’t gonna be pretty.
jenny commented:
Go Senator! Yes, shame on all the other Republicans for NOT standing with him. Sadly, I have two dem dolts representing me in the Senate.
David Johnson commented:
Did the bomb threats come from SEIU or ACORN? Or, perhaps Obamadinejad called Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn off the bench?
Darwin Akbar commented:
Since it is always the “right” that is framed as “enraged” and “violent,” these bomb threats will receive as much MSM coverage as was the bullet fired at the home of Lou Dobbs a few months ago.
AuntieMadder commented:
These bomb threats aren’t getting much play by the state-run media.
Are you kidding? This is the first I’ve heard about them.
AuntieMadder commented:
The Elector of Saxony
March 2nd, 2010 | 11:38 am | #13
“Why can’t he make jobs?”
And they say conservatives are dumb.
bg commented:
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Darwin Akbar @ 12:39 pm #19
yes, don’t have cable news, ergo i could be wrong, but
believe Lou Dobbs was the only one who mentioned it..
via NewsBusters 10/29/2009
CNN’s Lou Dobbs Claims Shot Fired at Home, Wife
["But I want to tell you, when you talk about what they've done - they've created an atmosphere and they've been unrelenting in their propaganda," Dobbs said. "Three weeks ago this morning, a shot was fired at my house where I live. My wife was standing out and that followed weeks and weeks of threatening phone calls."
[..]
“And, as I told the state patrol, and by the way, the New Jersey State Patrol is absolutely terrific – they responded instantly. But this shot was fired with my wife not, I don’t know, 15 feet away and we had threatening phone calls that I decided not to report because I get threatening phone calls,” Dobbs continued. “I now – it’s become a way of life – the anger, the hate, the vitriol, but it’s taken a different tone where they’ve threatened my wife. They’ve now fired a shot at my house while my wife was standing next to the car. It’s become something else.”
[..]
“But we’ve got to start being honest,” Dobbs said. “Instead, the national liberal media has chosen sides and they’ve decided that they’re going to focus on the liberal view, which is that they will embrace illegal immigration – no matter who is harmed, no matter how many laws are broken or how few consequences there are for breaking those laws.”
[..]
“My wife has now been, and I have been, shot at, our driver,” Dobbs said. “My house has been shot and hit. An investigation continues. I’ve had bodyguards now and you know what, I’m not in the mood to put up with little fools like Geraldo Rivera.”]
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CattusMagnus commented:
Surely, the bomb threat are from those vicious teabaggers.
DINORight commented:
“These bomb threats aren’t getting much play by the state-run media.”
Ahhh, you forget. It is only Tea Party “activists” and “right wing terrorists” who would do such things. Tsk. Tsk. How quickly you forget.
Derek commented:
You know, this isn’t like the money is being spent on purses and hats. It’s money going to people out of work, who need the money to live. I can live with them going about it this way. But to be so hypocritical as to say NOTHING when the Iraq and Afghanistan war, for the previous 8 yrs, was paid for by BORROWING money, is beyond the pale. Bunning voted for it each and every time. And none of you, I’m sure, complained. The war costs between $2 billion per week to $12 billion a month, and you’re complaining about 10b being spent, using the pay-as-you-go as a rationale.
Bravo, hypocrites.
Homero commented:
Please correct me if I am mistaken here, but don’t Paygo rules only apply to discretionary spending, and this particular bill was deemed emergency spending?
Now I realize some of us may not agree that this should be considered emergency spending, but that’s an entirely different debate that in my opinion should be put to a majority vote.
I realize my knowledge of the Senate may not be the greatest, but why can’t we just vote whether or not this should be considered emergency spending rather than filibuster to block any movement at all?
Tom Kubiak commented:
Hi Jim,
I was in Wal-Mart when you e-mailed me back. I should have picked up a Polish dictionary. tom
Kim commented:
It’s not a filibuster….
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/02/is-bunning-conducting-a-filibuster/
Galt commented:
The idea of forcibly taking the earnings of one’s neighbors and their children should give pause to those righteously indignant Dems who are demanding more transfer payments.
To have someone like Bunning act to protect the earnings of my neighbors and their children is refreshing. More politicians should be willing to stake their career on protecting people.
That it is so rare tells us how far to the left Congress and the media have shifted.
Rob Crawford commented:
Derek — grow up.
BUZZ commented:
” The war costs between $2 billion per week to $12 billion a month, and you’re complaining about 10b being spent, using the pay-as-you-go as a rationale.
Bravo, hypocrites.”
I love the idiots that post this. So, how much was the gov in the red say up to the end of 2008? How much is it in the red right now?
Perhaps you will find a clue in those two numbers. Bravo, Dumbass.
jim commented:
Drudge Strikes Back!!!!!
LONE SENATOR AGAIN BLOCKS MORE SPENDING!
http://www.drudgereport.com/
Nahanni commented:
From “Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer”…
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html
How can smart people let themselves be manipulated by a psychopath to such an extent that they become quasi zombies? Recall what the smart Germans did under the spell of Hitler. Bear in mind what the Soviets did under the influence of Stalin. Consider what the Japanese did during WWII when they believed in the divinity of their emperor. Evoke how the Chinese Red Guard massacred millions of their own countrymen when they were blinded by their love for Mao and his faux notion of equality. Look at the Islamic terrorists. Can’t we say the same about them? Isn’t Islamic savagery the result of Muslims’ uncritical devotion to a long deceased narcissist? If you don’t know what I am talking about, I invite you to read my book, Understanding Muhammad. When sane people fall for the lies of an insane man, they act insanely.
No one is born a terrorist. Terrorists are ordinary people who do the bidding of a pathological narcissist whom they love and worship as their liberator. They are so enamored with him that they stop thinking and act like automatons. To prove their love and devotion they can commit murder and even suicide. They can kill their own children, as the followers of Jim Jones did in Guyana. The narcissist encourages all of this behavior because it validates his delusion of omnipotence. It reassures him that he is loved, respected, counted, taken seriously. Did you hear the song played during the Democratic convention? It said, “This is the church.” And who do you think is the head of that church? Americans are as fallible and as gullible as everyone else. It is foolhardy to say “it won’t happen to us.” Just as today, Obama’s supporters happily engage in intellectual dishonesty, deceitful reporting, and even hooliganism, I predict they will soon, merrily commit the same crimes other nations committed under the spell of their narcissistic leaders.
bg commented:
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Derek @ 2:41 pm #25
“The Price of Liberty”
freedom is not free..
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bg commented:
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Derek @ 2:41 pm #25
ht Indy Voter in a previous thread..
“Debt and Deficit”
btw, who didn’t vote for it??
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Derek commented:
” The war costs between $2 billion per week to $12 billion a month, and you’re complaining about 10b being spent, using the pay-as-you-go as a rationale.
Bravo, hypocrites.”
I love the idiots that post this. So, how much was the gov in the red say up to the end of 2008? How much is it in the red right now?
Perhaps you will find a clue in those two numbers. Bravo, Dumbass.
Hey Buzz, why don’t you look up what the deficit was at the end of 2008. Your post makes no sense given that we were in the red, and you neglected the point of the post, which is, you are crying about 10billion for our citizens, yet you cheered on the Chinese literally funding our war in Iraq. Add to that, the Bush admin never even added the money allotted to the war into the budgets, in effect, cooking the books. That’s not a right/left issue, it’s a fact. One you can’t refute unless you are, a hypocrite.
Derek commented:
So BG stated that the price of liberty is not free…..thanks for the honesty, and you are correct. But for the right to have their panties in a bunch for unemployment benefits is so ridiculous. I am in an industry where many, many people are getting laid off, the vast majority right-leaning…do you think they want their benes cut? That they think, as someone posted, that these benes are forcibly taken from neighbors and their children? The right has you believing that the only beneficiaries of these programs are poor democrats. it’s almost funny how they have programmed you to think you are some kind of John Galt that could live without any kind of social programs.
I’m convinced that the only reason these beliefs get news is that the people that believe them simply shout the loudest. I have learned that the louder one speaks, the less he has to say.
philogratis commented:
He voted against Paygo! Sure, you can say the Dems are being hypocritical, but it’s insane to vote against Paygo and then turn around and turn into a one man Paygo enforcement team.
Jackson commented:
Screw you all. Pay for the benefits the same way Congress chose to pay for two wars started under Bush!
North Dallas Thirty commented:
I am in an industry where many, many people are getting laid off, the vast majority right-leaning…do you think they want their benes cut?
Typical answer of the welfare addict.
Which do you think those people would prefer; to be on government handouts, or to have government stop taxing and regulating their employers out of existence and keep their jobs?
Tell us what industry that is, Derek. Put your money where your mouth is so that your claims can be cross-checked.
Also:
Add to that, the Bush admin never even added the money allotted to the war into the budgets, in effect, cooking the books. That’s not a right/left issue, it’s a fact. One you can’t refute unless you are, a hypocrite.
Actually, we can refute it, using actual facts.
Your problem is, Derek, that as an Obama Party voter and shill, you don’t check facts; you simply repeat the talking points you are given. One of these days, when you reach intellectual and emotional maturity, you might actually consider the possibility of judging people by the content of their character instead of by the color of their skin, as you do in your assumption that everything Barack Obama tells you to repeat is true.
bg commented:
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Derek @ 8:31 pm #41
the “right” doesn’t have their panties
in a bunch over paying unemployment..
many, on the “left” included, have their panties
in a bunch because Obama stated the following..
Barack Obama: Americans Are Tired of Politicians
Who Don’t Walk the Walk on Fiscal Responsibility
Obama signs ‘pay as you go’ legislation into law
ergo, breaking his own “pay-go rule of law”..
btw, the links can also be found in posts
#11 & #14.. guess you missed them..
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bg commented:
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Jackson @ 10:23 pm #43
It Has Always Been The Soldier
It is the soldier,
not the President who gives us democracy.
It is the soldier,
not the Congress who takes care of us.
It is the soldier,
not the Reporter who has given us Freedom of Press.
It is the soldier,
not the Poet who has given us Freedom of Speech.
It is the soldier,
not the campus [community] Organizer who
has given us the Freedom to Demonstrate.
It is the soldier,
who salutes the flag;
who serves beneath the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
that allows the protester to burn the flag.
~ Father Dennis O’Brien, US Marine Corp. Chaplain
God Bless Bush!
God Bless America!
God Bless Soldiers everywhere for putting THEIR
lives on the line to protect us ALL from terrorism!
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