Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

[devilgrrl]

Yeah... that has to be the reason! :sarcasm:


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 ," 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.

link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/07/tom-delay-jim-bunning-was_n_489050.html

[FBaggins]

1. Whew! - Thank goodness I don't want to be unemployed.

THAT's a load off my mind.

[ixion]

2. I have a couple friends who are unemployed right now... they don't want to be

so Mr. DeLay is full-of-sh*t, as usual.

[Lasher]

3. Hot Tub Tom, the deficit hawk.

Cut off his Congressional pension. I'm sure he'd consider it a favor since he would be liberated from dependence on it, to earn self respect in his search for employment in the private sector.

[BarbaRosa]

4. As always,

Tom has a firm grasp of the reality of the situation. :sarcasm:

[gratuitous]

5. Yeah, you lazy-ass louts

Why don't you just go on Dancing with the Stars or get a sinecure at a right wing "think" tank?

[Kievan Rus]

6. Another brainless, heartless corporate shill

[Brewman_Jax]

7. So that's why that is!

:sarcasm:

Stunning remarks from another brain-dead GOP corporate shill. :puke:

[HughMoran]

8. Ass hole

...and there may be a small percentage that are, but throwing out the majority who desperately need it in order to 'get' those few who are leaches is something only a heartless Republican ass hole could concoct.

[no limit]

9. You try living on $300 - $400 a week you fucking prick

[dembotoz]

10. this should be getting more play

t-shirts bumper stickers

heartless republican bastards should be cast adrift on an ice flow in the ever warming ocean.

[Javaman]

11. Felon. nt

[northofdenali]

12. Mr. Delay, if I wanted to be unemployed -

I wouldn't have 100's of resumes and applications out there - and I sure wouldn't have applied for some of the jobs I have applied for.

Asshole.

[Blue Owl]

13. Out of touch and out of mind

But then would we expect anything less from these shitlicks?