Bunning is not running for re-election.

He can therefor take the heat of furthering the Republican objective of blocking any useful activity by Congress while Obama remains in office, while diverting attention from the obstructionism evident among the entire party of the Republican Bloc(heads).

By the time there's another presidential election - and probably by the time of the next Congressional elections - there's hope that the voters will have forgotten that the Republican controlled Congress created the collapse of world-wide financial markets, and passed the bills now putting us into extraordinary deficits, and they can hope that the voters won't have noticed that the Republicans are the ones who've prevented many useful actions toward recovery.

If Butnik is right about the need to "discuss other financing" it should be up to the ENTIRE SENATE to discuss, propose, and enact what is needed, not for one idiot to stop the entire country from functioning until someone changes his diaper and makes him happy again.

John