GOP Colleague Flips Unemployed Workers The Bird; Bond Remains Mum

Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) is filibustering legislation with an extension for unemployment benefits to help more than 1.2 million out-of-work Americans. Struggling families obviously count on these benefits to put food on the table, pay bills and keep a roof over their heads.In fact, the White House says 8,700 Missourians will not receive unemployment checks if the Senate fails to deal with Bunning's obstructionism.

In addition, two thousand federal highway workers were furloughed this morning because of Bunning's petty maneuvers. And today, his filibuster triggered a 21 percent fee reduction to doctors seeing Medicare patients starting today.

As far as I know, Kit Bond has said nothing about Bunning's filibuster. How long will he Bond remain silent as his colleagues obstruct basic, important legislation?

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McClatchy put together the following graphic about the GOP obstruction, titled "Who really gets hurt when GOP's Bunning blocks this bill?"