By the way, the block was in fact lifted finally this afternoon after some wheeling and dealing, but before that the conservative punditry was bending over backwards to praise Kentucky Republican Sen. Bunning's blockade of an extension of federal funding for unemployment benefits, Medicare payouts, and transportation projects (among other things, to which he later added a blockade on administration appointees)... for Limbaugh, FOX News, and the rest of the wingnut media, Bunning was just taking a principled and heroic stand on screwing over unemployed Americans during a major recession. Laura Ingraham, almost incredibly, claimed without any proof that if Americans were polled right now they would be wildly supportive of Jim Bunning cutting off their unemployment benefits.
The short extension needed to be passed by Sunday, and when it wasn't we started seeing immediate layoffs at current projects under the Dept. of Transportation and slashes to Medicare payouts to doctors. Without the extension of this one package, up to 90,000 jobs were projected to disappear. 1.2 million Americans temporarily lost unemployment benefits.
Here's a roundup of clips by Media Matters, showing the FOX News narrative specifically:
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