Re: “Sen. Bunning had a point” (Off the wire, 3-7).
The Chicago Tribune editorial on Sen. Jim Bunning was dishonest, totally out of context in an attempt to make an unprincipled Senate fraud into some kind of an “irascible” folk hero.
Bunning voted for every deficit-driving corporate welfare bill during the Bush administration as well as two wars totally unpaid for and the Medicare drug provision that does not allow the government to bargain for lower prices to save taxpayers money. The article should have been headlined “Hypocrite.”
Bunning has had no problem with corporate welfare during his sorry political career. Suddenly he is “principled” when he wants to deny workers and their families unemployment benefits. What a sorry value system!
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