Truck loads of abuse have been dumped on retiring Kentucky Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, who challenged Congress to heed its own rules and stop spending money it doesn’t have, specifically $10 billion for unemployment benefits, COBRA health insurance subsidies, transportation construction projects and much else. Under its “Pay-Go” rules, Congress is not supposed to approve funding increases without an equal amount being cut elsewhere from the federal budget. That’s the law the Democratic majority in both chambers of Congress approved. President Obama praised it, too, saying, “Now Congress will have to pay for what it spends, just like everybody else.”

Well, apparently not, because now, when Bunning takes them at their word, all Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats who voted for Pay-Go have for him is bilious personal insults. Imagine how tense the atmosphere was yesterday as a deal to end the deadlock was discussed.