Sunday, March 14, 2010
Bunning Praised In Home Area
KENTUCKY...
Republican U.S. Senator Jim Bunning, who single-handedly held up a $10 billion spending bill containing money for jobless benefits, is being heralded as a hero in his home town. While Democrats cast him as unsympathetic toward jobless Americans, some 400 people paid $60 to $100 each to reserve seats to honor him at a dinner Saturday evening where scores of politicians lavished him with praise. To his supporters, he is known as a budget hawk standing against out-of-control federal spending. Secretary of State Trey Grayson told the attending crowd that, “Jim Bunning has been right more than he’s been wrong, and history will show that he, more than anyone else, predicted some of the economic problems we’re having now and worked to try to prevent them.” Bunning said, “I’m extremely worried about the condition of the United States of America presently. You cannot keep charging things to the national credit card.”
Republican U.S. Senator Jim Bunning, who single-handedly held up a $10 billion spending bill containing money for jobless benefits, is being heralded as a hero in his home town. While Democrats cast him as unsympathetic toward jobless Americans, some 400 people paid $60 to $100 each to reserve seats to honor him at a dinner Saturday evening where scores of politicians lavished him with praise. To his supporters, he is known as a budget hawk standing against out-of-control federal spending. Secretary of State Trey Grayson told the attending crowd that, “Jim Bunning has been right more than he’s been wrong, and history will show that he, more than anyone else, predicted some of the economic problems we’re having now and worked to try to prevent them.” Bunning said, “I’m extremely worried about the condition of the United States of America presently. You cannot keep charging things to the national credit card.”
# posted by Homer Owens @ 7:28 AM 
