Bunning Lashes Out At McConnell, Cornyn, Local Media
Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) is continuing to attack his fellow Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate GOP leader, along with NRSC chairman John Cornyn for seemingly trying to force him out of office -- and he's not too fond of the media coverage, either.
Bunning pointed out that Mitch McConnell is already raising money for his 2014 re-election campaign, crowding out dollars that could have gone to Bunning in 2010 -- compared to Bunning's own act of standing down in the money race during McConnell's 2008 campaign: "Just as I refrained from doing it for two years, he sent out his, so you know where he stands."
And there's also the way that McConnell and Cornyn have met with state Senate President David Williams about a possible primary challenge: "When they recruit someone to run against you in a primary, it puts doubt in people's minds that you are going to finish the race. Therefore, they're waiting and waiting and waiting. It's almost a self fulfilling prophecy."
And Bunning also took serious issue with a recent story in the Louisville Courier-Journal, which reported that he was threatening to resign and give his state's Democratic governor the power to appoint his replacement.
Bunning complained that "he Courier-Journal doesn't need anything, no facts, no figures. So go ahead and write it. Three sources, my ass. Pardon me if there's ladies on."
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"he Courier-Journal doesn't need anything, no facts, no figures. So go ahead and write it. Three sources, my ass. Pardon me if there's ladies on."
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Thanks for the laugh, Jim
Weren't there questions in 2004 about whether Bunning might be exhibiting signs of dementia?
(And I'm not being sarcastic here).
March 24, 2009 4:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've grown to love this guy.
March 24, 2009 5:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Brunning, you know what would really bust McConnell's chops? If you voted for the employee free choice act. Man, that'd show 'em.
March 24, 2009 5:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Win.
March 24, 2009 8:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bunning was a major league pitcher in the 1950s through around 1970. The Major League Players Association union got their first Collective Bargaining Agreement in 1968 which, among other things raised the salary of first-year players in an era when ballplayers did not make much and actually often held second jobs. So how much of a major league hypocrite is Bunning now with respect to unions? He benefited from the union as a ball player but of course now there is no way he will support them. A thoroughly disgusting individual.
March 24, 2009 5:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not that Bunning isn't an asshat...but I don't really see how he benefited from the union. He was a hall-of-famer, and you're saying the union got ramped up 2 years before his retirement. The increases in salaries to rookies wouldn't have meant much to him.
And while we're on the subject, let's not forget that Ronald Reagan was president of a union, once upon a time.
March 24, 2009 10:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Shoot, the guy was a world-class pitcher, threw one of only 17 perfect games pitched in the history of major league baseball. That's not small beer.
The extent of athletic ability is no predictor of decency or common sense, however. Heck, Lance Armstrong dated Sheryl Crow (about as 'left' as one gets) and heavily promotes cancer research, and he's a pro-life Bush supporter. As a former long-distance bike rider myself, he's an athletic hero but he's not the guy I want my daughter dating.
Go figure.
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March 24, 2009 10:46 PM | Reply | Permalink