Ron Wyden To Block Other Extensions Until Senate Extends UI And COBRA

[cal04]

Ron Wyden To Block Other Extensions Until Senate Extends UI And COBRA Benefits
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/ron-wyden-to-block-other_n_478521.html

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has vowed to prevent the Senate from extending any other expiring laws until it extends unemployment benefits and subsidized health insurance for laid off workers.

Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) is single-handedly blocking Senate action needed to prevent an estimated 1.2 million American workers from prematurely losing their unemployment benefits next month. When, on the Senate floor, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) begged him to drop his objection Bunning replied: "Tough shit."

The Senate adjourned on Friday without renewing the benefits. As a result, hundreds of thousands of people will stop receiving unemployment checks every week, starting Monday.

Wyden is outraged. "Denying (the unemployed) legislation that helps them pay for the basic necessities of life is fundamentally wrong," Wyden told HuffPost. "For people that are getting hammered in this economy, trying literally to figure out from their kitchen table and their living rooms how they're going to get by, this legislation is a lifeline."

[upi402]

1. Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) is human scum

I'm still hoping there really IS a hell for these folks!

Go Wyden!:patriot:

[lsewpershad]

20. There

has to be something less than human scum for those of his ilk.

[BlueIris]

2. Got to love the Ron Wyden.

Thanks, Senator.

[ceile]

3. Good

[gratuitous]

4. If this stops any extension of the USA PATRIOT Act, then

Go Ron, go!

[OregonBlue]

8. That was passed yesterday. I am wondering what Bunning wants that Wyden is blocking?

[babylonsister]

5. Rec'd. Where are all the other Dems following suit? nt

[BrklynLiberal]

6. How about they stop issuing paychecks to Congress..indefinitely.

Bravo Sen. Wyden

[slay]

7. K&R -- Republican do NOT care about any of us!

:mad: :grr: :mad: :grr: :mad: :grr:

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

9. Thanks Senator Wyden!

Your resolve is unshakeable!

[True_Blue]

10. Thank you Ron! - nt

[704wipes]

11. Put a couple thousand people on Bunnings doorstep ?

We really should ruin this fuckwad's weekend wherever he is spending it.

A sit-in on his street in front of his house is what is needed. Wherever he is.
Ruin his weekend.
Ruin his neighbor's weekend.

Because he has ruined a LOT of people's week next week. Nationwide.
enough is enough. we do not have to suffer assholes like this.

WHERE DOES HE SPEND THE WEEKEND?

[alstephenson]

13. Great idea. eom

[ohheckyeah]

12. You can contact him here:

http://bunning.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm

What a jackass.

[704wipes]

14. No I want to know where he drinks his coffee Saturday morning

I want to put 10,000 people in the street peacefully outside his house.
I want at least one of them to have a sign thanking him for nothing.
I want one of them to have a sign calling him the asshole that he IS>

If I can get there within the time constraints from where I live,
I will have the 'you're an asshole' sign. So no one else needs to bring that.

WHERE DOES HE SPEND HIS SATURDAY? WHERE DOES HE LIVE?
I don't need his fucking email. That some nerdy UK intern will answer.

[ohheckyeah]

15. Well, I suggest you look it up. n/t

[depakid]

16. The House of Lords has become so dysfunctional that all one can do is laugh at it

It real is an international embarrassment.

[DisgustedInMN]

17. Hard to laugh...

... when it you that is now has the income status of $0, such as myself. As a matter of fact, laughing isn't even on my very short list of options. I won't say what is.

[LWolf]

18. Good. nt

[Uncle Joe]

19. I would suggest for the unemployed to start mailing letters and pictures of them selves

and their families to Bunning, swamp his office and let him see the faces of the people he's killing.

Thanks for the thread, cal.