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RUSH: The State-Controlled Media hates Jim Bunning. We have a montage.<\/p>\n

ED SCHULTZ: (music) Jim Bunning has been acting like not a real good guy. <\/p>\n

LARRY O\u2019DONNELL: Bunning is regarded as a very, very strange man with a nasty temper. <\/p>\n

CHRIS HAYES: A bizarre character. <\/p>\n

DANA BASH: (background noise) Bunning does not have a good relationship with his Republican leadership.<\/p>\n

BOB BECKEL: He slid into too many bases head first. <\/p>\n

JONATHAN KARL: Known for throwing brush-back pitches and isn\u2019t afraid to ruffle feathers. <\/p>\n

ANDREA MITCHELL: Jim Bunning… He has a track record of saying terrible, terrible things. <\/p>\n

CHRIS MATTHEWS: He\u2019s been behaving in a way that\u2019s certainly outside the box. <\/p>\n

JAY NEWTON-SMALL Look, he\u2019s 78 years old. He\u2019s really bitter. <\/p>\n

DAVID CORN: He\u2019s been erratic for years. <\/p>\n

BRIAN WILLIAMS: Angry words and an obscene gesture. <\/p>\n

KELLY O\u2019DONNELL: (background noise) A reputation for being prickly. <\/p>\n

LARRY O\u2019DONNELL: Bunning shot him the middle finger.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. It was a Senators-only elevator. All the guy\u2019s doing is standing up for a Senate rule called paygo. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: All this is about unemployment compensation extension. He\u2019s all for that. Bunning says he\u2019s all for continuing benefits. He said, ‘We just got a new rule here that we gotta pay for it.\u2019 Senator Bunning, the next time you take to the Senate floor, suggest to Dingy Harry: ‘Look at how much unspent money from the Porkulus bill is there and how much unspent TARP money. Why do we need to spend more than we don\u2019t have? Why don\u2019t you go get whatever this bill requires from what you\u2019ve already allocated and be done with it?\u2019<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I want you to listen to this stuff again, all these media people talking about Bunning. It\u2019s more appropriate if they were talking about Harry Reid. These comments about Bunning apply much more to Harry Reid than they do to Jim Bunning, who is a great guy. You know, Harry Reid could have easily dealt with this today but he didn\u2019t. The Politico even says that rather than change things up a bit and address Bunning\u2019s issue Harry Reid let the unemployment fund stall because he\u2019s got a tourism bill he needed to work on to save his butt back in Nevada. But when you listen to this sound like they\u2019re saying the R-word without using the R-word when they describe Bunning? Listen to it again and keep in mind they are more apt descriptions of Harry Reid than they are Jim Bunning. <\/p>\n

ED SCHULTZ: (music) Jim Bunning has been acting like not a real good guy. <\/p>\n

LARRY O\u2019DONNELL: Bunning is regarded as a very, very strange man with a nasty temper. <\/p>\n

CHRIS HAYES: A bizarre character. <\/p>\n

DANA BASH: (background noise) Bunning does not have a good relationship with his Republican leadership.<\/p>\n

BOB BECKEL: He slid into too many bases head first. <\/p>\n

JONATHAN KARL: Known for throwing brush-back pitches and isn\u2019t afraid to ruffle feathers. <\/p>\n

ANDREA MITCHELL: Jim Bunning… He has a track record of saying terrible, terrible things. <\/p>\n

CHRIS MATTHEWS: He\u2019s been behaving in a way that\u2019s certainly outside the box. <\/p>\n

JAY NEWTON-SMALL Look, he\u2019s 78 years old. He\u2019s really bitter. <\/p>\n

DAVID CORN: He\u2019s been erratic for years. <\/p>\n

BRIAN WILLIAMS: Angry words and an obscene gesture. <\/p>\n

KELLY O\u2019DONNELL: (background noise) A reputation for being prickly. <\/p>\n

LARRY O\u2019DONNELL: Bunning shot him the middle finger.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sounds to me more like Harry Reid characterizations than it does Jim Bunning. Now, yesterday in Claremont, Florida, ‘Nobody Messes with Joe\u2019 held a press conference to talk about Recovery Act funding for highway projects, and here is a portion of his remarks.<\/p>\n

BIDEN: One of Bill\u2019s colleagues is standing on the floor of the United States as we speak. He\u2019s standing there, and preventing the Senate from being able to move forward on doing the kind of thing we\u2019re doing here today. What\u2019s that mean? (angry) Four hundred thousand people will be kicked off the rolls this month if he has his way!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Come on, everybody knows these unemployment benefits are going to be extended. It\u2019s gonna get done. This is how the Democrats play the game trying to make it look like Bunning doesn\u2019t care. What Bunning knows is that this country is fit to be tied over this out-of-control spending. Jim Bunning knows that there is more anger in this country over spending than there is over any other issue. There is more anger over spending and the economy and lack of jobs, and Jim Bunning is a hero to people here for trying to finally get the Senate to abide by its paygo rules. But again, folks, the smidgen amount of money in this bill that Bunning is holding up? The money has already been allocated and unspent in any number of other areas. The Porkulus bill, the TARP bill, we know that not all that money has been spent. So why add to it? Why add onto it? It\u2019s silly and it\u2019s destructive and it\u2019s purposeful. Now, here\u2019s Robert Gibbs yesterday at the daily press briefing. During the Q&amp;A, a reporter says, ‘Does the White House see this episode with Senator Bunning as something isolated or is there something larger you\u2019re trying to draw attention to here?\u2019<\/p>\n

GIBBS: I think what we\u2019re trying to draw attention to is the fact that hundreds of thousands of people who\u2019ve lost their job and lost their health care because of that and their unemployment benefits, all that is threatened because one person has decided to stop the entire process. It\u2019s hard to bargain with somebody when, if you say, ‘I won\u2019t do that because of this,\u2019 and you say, ‘Well, how about we vote on that?\u2019 and you (sic) say, ‘I object?\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: As usual, the White House press secretary making absolutely zero sense, and I\u2019m not going to waste your time or mine translating it. Let\u2019s go to the Senate floor late yesterday, Jim Bunning.<\/p>\n

BUNNING: If we can\u2019t find $10 billion to pay for something that we all support, we will never pay for anything on the floor of this US Senate. I have offered several ways to do this, including trying to negotiate with the majority leader\u2019s staff. None have been successful. We cannot keep adding to the debt. It\u2019s over $14 trillion and going up fast. If the budget that is before us passes, it will add another $1.5 trillion to the debt.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Dingy Harry is not interested in solving this. He likes the press helping his party portray Republicans as heartless, cold, mean-spirited, unfeeling extremists when in fact they\u2019re trying to enforce a little spending discipline on an out-of-control Congress. I guarantee you, the anger at all this spending is huge. People know they can\u2019t live their own lives like this, and they know the government can\u2019t, either. It\u2019s out of control, simply out of control. Dingy Harry doesn\u2019t want to negotiate. He wants the issue out there. Gibbs wants the issue out there. Obama wants it out there. All the press wants it out there. And this is how much, and to what a great degree, they\u2019re just out of touch with people in the country. Here\u2019s Dingy Harry playing the violin for these poor wretches standing in line for unemployment benefits that will not be available because of the evil troll, Jim Bunning.<\/p>\n

HARRY REID: My friends on the other side of the aisle are opposing extending unemployment benefits for people who are out of work. Where was my friend from Kentucky when we had two wars that were unpaid for during the Bush administration; tax cuts that cost more than a trillion dollars, unpaid for? Where was my friend and the Republicans objecting to that? I hope Republicans will reconsider, think about their constituents standing in the unemployment line as we speak.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re not standing in the unemployment line. They\u2019re standing in the unemployment benefits line. I saw on CNBC today… I\u2019m going to have to go back and see if I can source this. I think I was on CNBC where a guy, a recipient is getting 30 grand in unemployment compensation? What did I do with that? He\u2019s getting $30,000 of unemployment compensation. If he\u2019s got a wife and she\u2019s unemployed, that\u2019s 60 grand. Plus they\u2019ve got food stamps. If that number is pretty representative, then we can\u2019t keep going. None of this can be sustained. Nobody is going to start looking for work. We\u2019re now extending unemployment benefits to 99 weeks. None of this, none of this is sustainable and there\u2019s one voice of some sort of sanity addressing this issue in the United States Senate. So Dick Durbin was next up. He had to whine about Jim Bunning yesterday afternoon on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n

DURBIN: When the victims in the middle of the debate are unemployed people, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s fair. This one young man, David Senor, showed me a list of 300 applications that he had made to try to find a job during the last year. He said, ‘I go online every day,\u2019 and this is a man who had worked for years, had a strong work record until he was laid off, and he said, ‘I just can\u2019t find anything. I\u2019m desperate. I\u2019m trying everything I can think of and now you\u2019re going to cut off my unemployment benefits.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: No your unemployment benefits are not going to be ‘cut off.\u2019 All these federal workers being furloughed, you know they\u2019re going to get their back pay. Nobody is going to lose a dime here. Everybody knows this. This little episode here is a great illustration, a microcosm of the difference in the two parties and exactly who\u2019s out of touch and who\u2019s in touch and exactly how destructive to the country as we know it the Democrat Party has become. So it continued this morning. On the floor, Jim Bunning keeps stating his case.<\/p>\n

BUNNING: It\u2019s really hypocritical of the Democratic side of this aisle passing a paygo bill — what does paygo mean? It means you pay for the bills as they appear on the floor of the US Senate — and then to present a bill that not only is not paid for but just paid for a little bit, paid for a third of. That was the Reid bill on the jobs bill that he presented to us: $5 billion was paid for, $10 billion was not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Harry Reid calls Bunning a hypocrite.<\/p>\n

HARRY REID: My friend just is… He\u2019s throwing around words like ‘hypocrite.\u2019 People can make their own decision as to who is a hypocrite.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We have.<\/p>\n

HARRY REID: I\u2019m not calling anyone ‘hypocrite,\u2019 although I\u2019m just stating the facts. Someone boasts about the good effects of paygo but votes against it, talks about the doc fix but votes against it. So I would think that, uh, my friend from Kentucky should get a different historian to help him with his facts because they\u2019re simply wrong. So I object.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, go ahead! This is the guy who said at the health summit last week, ‘Reconciliation? You may be entitled to your own opinion, but you\u2019re not entitled to your own facts, Lamar. You can\u2019t sit there and say that! Nobody\u2019s talking about reconciliation.\u2019 That\u2019s all anybody was talking about. That\u2019s all they\u2019re talking about now. So when Dingy Harry says somebody is not entitled to their own facts, the way I interpret it is, he doesn\u2019t have any to support his own argument. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Somewhere Virginia. This is Nancy. Great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m calling you after being floored yesterday. I\u2019m one of the 2,000 employees in the Department of Transportation who was told to go home yesterday, and I just wanted to give you some thoughts, because I support Jim Bunning and I support everything he\u2019s saying because I care more about the future of the country and my children\u2019s future and my long-term financial viability than I do about this job. And I didn\u2019t just start working there yesterday. I have a long federal career, and the way that the leadership talked to us yesterday, they were very apologetic, it was such a surprise because we\u2019ve had continuing resolutions so many times before.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hm-hm.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s always passed without a problem so they were really shocked that somebody actually stood up and voted against it this time. They were livid.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate you calling here. Now I know why you identified your location as somewhere.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Because I will tell you, I live a life of politically correct hell. I have to watch everything I say, I have to not disclose my true feelings about some of the things that we work on that is nothing but a boondoggle and squandering of the taxpayers\u2019 money. I have to watch things go on every day that I think most taxpayers would not be proud of. And I also work with a lot of dedicated, caring people who try to do a good job and we do a lot of good work in the Department of Transportation. Anybody that\u2019s driven on the roads and bridges lately knows we do a lot of good work. But mixed in with that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, except in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mixed in with that is a lot of stuff honest hardworking people should not be having to deal with. And I have relatives all over the country, I sent them all e-mails this morning begging them to please — I told them I have been furloughed and I said, ‘Please contact the Republican leadership and your representatives and urge them to support Jim Bunning,\u2019 and don\u2019t leave him standing out there by himself.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, he is for now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: For now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very gutsy on your part. I just want to correct one thing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If I\u2019d really been gutsy, I would have given you my real name, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that. This is instructive in itself. This is a woman who works for federal government afraid for anybody to know who she is in the federal government. At any rate, Bunning is not — this may sound like a technical point — he\u2019s not voting to furlough you, he\u2019s not voting against unemployment benefits, he says —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — we got a $14 trillion — we gotta start paying for some of this stuff somehow, we can\u2019t sustain it. And you\u2019re gonna get your back pay. It always happens.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I know. We were assured of that yesterday.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re going to get your back pay —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — promise you —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The only guy that hasn\u2019t been paid back in anything like this is the sleigh ride operator —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — at Jellystone. Everybody got their Thanksgiving, Christmas turkeys during the government shutdown, and you\u2019re going to get your back pay and the unemployment benefits will eventually be funded and everybody knows this. Bunning is simply making a point. I\u2019ll tell you something else. He\u2019s retiring. He\u2019s not running for reelection. That frees one up quite a bit.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, it was President Obama and his weekly radio, YouTube speech, whatever it was — we\u2019re getting the audio even now — who lauded the whole concept of paygo, just lauded it, and Harry Reid has lauded the whole concept of paygo. I mean every bit of ammo for Bunning to have some defense in there from his colleagues is just waiting to be used.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Kevin in Vienna, Virginia. Welcome to the program. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. I appreciate you putting me on —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir. You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and dittos from a second-time caller. I just wanted to make an observation that I think the press is doing a disservice to the citizens because just look at the amount of energy that they\u2019re using going after Bunning and compared to the amount of energy going after Charlie Rangel.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, come on now! Charlie Rangel, Pelosi said it herself, doesn\u2019t do anything to harm national security or any of that, big deal. Plus Dick Durbin threw down the race card, ‘Hey, he\u2019s black! He served in a segregated unit in Korea. Cut the guy some slack. He\u2019s entitled to go on junkets and have freebies for 500 grand because he comes from a slave heritage.\u2019 You gotta understand the priorities here. Bunning is a white guy in the Hall of Fame. That\u2019s unfair as it is.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I guess my priorities are all wrong.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, you\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I spent 20 years in the Special Forces and I\u2019m a taxpayer now and they still haven\u2019t cut me any slack.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know. It\u2019s hypocrisy on parade. They\u2019re going to pay for all of this. They will pay for all this. There\u2019s a lot of people unemployed paying attention to what these people are doing because they think that these are the people that screwed it up and therefore they think these are the people that have to fix it because these are the people saying they\u2019re going to. Obama\u2019s been saying for over a year (doing impression), ‘I\u2019m going to put you back to work, stimulus bill, maybe three.\u2019 Meanwhile, unemployment numbers keep going up and the Council of Economic Advisors grand pooh-bah says, ‘Hey, it\u2019s going to be so bad Friday, ignore the number. It\u2019s because of the blizzards.\u2019 Meanwhile, Charlie Rangel with a half million dollars here, tax evasion over there, bunch of junkets down the Caribbean, caught napping on a beach down there. <\/p>\n

‘Uhhh, look, he served in a segregated unit in Korea! He\u2019s a black guy, slave heritage. You gotta cut the guy some slack. Besides his wife did it once and his staff did it the other times.\u2019 But Jim Bunning? ‘Ha-ha-ha-ha! Republican, Baseball Hall of Fame, probably pays for everything he buys himself? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. And now wants people to starve?\u2019 as they say. This is what they\u2019re saying. I\u2019m just telling you, people are noticing this stuff. They are noticing. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: To Nashville, Tennessee, this is David. Great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Earlier when you said that you had an idea that maybe Jim Bunning could ask to, you know, divert some of the TARP funds or stimulus bill funds, you know, for something like this, I saw an article from AP, it was buried in the paper here last Thursday, and it says: ‘Future measures are going to be much more difficult to pass, especially since a top Senate Democrat –‘ unnamed, it just says top Senate Democrat, ‘– has blocked unused funds from the Wall Street bailout program from being used in the future for jobs bills and other initiatives.\u2019 And I thought, well, he\u2019s blocking things, too, you know, but we don\u2019t know who that was. And I heard this morning that Jim Bunning actually did ask someone for the authority to, you know, use those stimulus funds, and they turned him down.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? Okay, cool. So the Democrats are the ones objecting to using —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — already allocated funds for this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And this says top Senate Democrat — I assume they mean a Senator, I don\u2019t know, it says top Senate Democrat has blocked these funds from being used. Well, that\u2019s very similar to what they\u2019re accusing, you know, it struck me as —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s just a trick for more spending. That\u2019s all they want to do is spend, spend, spend, spend, pure and simple. Thanks for that update out there, David. I missed that buried AP story. How many writers did it have, 15? The last two AP stories I\u2019ve seen had 15 writers, both on Obama\u2019s health care plan. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, Obama and paygo. Jim Bunning says, ‘Hey we got paygo, we got paygo, we can\u2019t pay for this and so we\u2019re not going to extend the benefits until we come up with a way to pay for it, we got paygo, we got a rule here.\u2019 He\u2019s being creamed; he\u2019s getting bomb threats; he\u2019s being assaulted by the media. Everybody is mischaracterizing what\u2019s going on here. Let\u2019s go-go back to February 13th, 2010, Obama\u2019s weekly YouTube address.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: What also has made these large deficits possible was the end of a common-sense rule called pay-as-you-go. It\u2019s pretty simple. It says to Congress, you have to pay as you go. You can\u2019t spend a dollar unless you cut a dollar elsewhere. This is how a responsible family or business manages a budget. This is how a responsible government manages a budget as well.<\/p>\n

RUSH: February 13th. That\u2019s like 18, 19 days ago. Paygo. All for it. Now he\u2019s joining the cast and crew who are trying to destroy Jim Bunning for saying, ‘Hey, we got this paygo rule here.\u2019 Here\u2019s more Obama from that same YouTube address on February 13th.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Now, in a perfect world Congress would not have needed a law to act responsibly to remember that every dollar spent would come from taxpayers today or our children tomorrow. But this isn\u2019t a perfect world. This is Washington. That\u2019s why this rule is necessary, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m pleased that Congress fulfilled my request to restore it. Last night I signed the pay-as-you-go rule into law. Now Congress will have to pay for what it spends just like everybody else.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, the real irony here is that he hasn\u2019t had to. This guy is the most reckless, out of control spender we\u2019ve ever had, but beside that, here he is touting paygo February 13th, Congress can\u2019t spend the money they don\u2019t have. Not going to do it anymore. So is it any wonder Bunning is standing up? He\u2019s just said what the president said, and the president\u2019s own party and the president\u2019s own media is trying to destroy the guy.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re at Radcliff, Kentucky. Aaron, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: American Kentucky dittos, Rush. God bless you, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It seems to me yesterday when I was first hearing about this, that the Republicans may have staged this Bunning objection a little. My political instincts aren\u2019t as good as yours, but as soon as I heard about it, it just struck me that Senator Bunning was not running again and therefore he\u2019s the perfect candidate to be the lone objector to renewing the unemployment benefits. Since the Drive-Bys are going to tear up the Republicans anyway over this issue, it may as well be someone who\u2019s not running again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I think that may be one of the reasons he\u2019s doing it, but I would find it hard to believe that there\u2019s some sort of behind-the-scenes conspiracy where they said, ‘Hey, Jim, you\u2019re not running. Go out and run interference for us.\u2019 There\u2019s nothing to gain party-wide if they all don\u2019t get on board this. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In fact, if they don\u2019t get on board this… I mean, they sent Susan Collins out there today on the Senate floor to trash Jim Bunning and she\u2019s a Republican.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. I see your point on that. It just seemed funny to me also I heard this morning that he\u2019s talking about, you know, using the stimulus money — and the first thing the Democrats did, especially Senator Reid, was turn around and start deflecting. Because seems to me they don\u2019t want anybody to know that there\u2019s like $800 billion or something like that sitting there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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