Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Jim Beam) is not only a major-league shithead, he’s a major-league shithead without the courage of his convictions — he dropped his one-eejit crusade against extending unemployment benefits last night.
Of course, “courage” is hardly the word to use here. Dubbed “The Underperformer” by Time magazine in a 2006 article discussing America’s five worst senators, Bunning wouldn’t have dared take such a stand were he not retiring from the Senate. To do so would’ve have taken actual balls instead of the substitutes he played with while pitching baseball instead of fits.
One thing I don’t understand: Why has nobody asked whether Bunning was such a deficit hawk when the Daffy-Fudd cabal was running two unfunded wars? Probably because the press knows it won’t have him to kick around much longer. Lazy pricks.
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I still don’t understand how one person can shut down the senate?
These bozos had no problem with Daffy/Fudd spending the loot like there was no end while cutting taxes on their wealthy pals–where were those so-called fiscal conservatives THEN? Funny how they got the message only after THEIR party was out of power!
We need a new name besides The Upper House for these lazy-ass, three-day-work-week types. What’s the new show I kept seeing ads for during the SuperBowl? Undercover Boss? Maybe we need a reality show (because that’s the only way to get Americans off their ass, it seems) where Senators do some actual work for a day, just to see what it’s like.
Speaking of courage amongst our elected officials … anyone tracking the state senator from Cali?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/04/roy-ashburn-arrested-anti_n_485419.html?ref=fb
My first baseball mitt was a Jim Bunning autograph model. Even at my young age I wondered why a pitcher would be used to market a fielding glove. But I liked my glove and so naturally I took an interest in Bunning’s career. I vaguely remember him being a Phillie. Just another example of my misspent youth.
I looked in Wikipedia and there is nothing about him being a particularly adept-fielding pitcher or winning a Golden Glove, but as a great pitcher of his ear, he probably would have been wise to take the money.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/awards/aw_ggpi.shtml
Hall of famer, nonetheless.
Steve O,
The word I just read on the local boob tube site is that the owner of the club is calling for Ashburn to resign. Why? Because he has no balls? Only the club would know, right?
I actually ride by the club in question – it’s on the same street as the ‘accident’ in an earlier post – and am amazed that there is not a bigger brouhaha about this here in SacTown. Especially with all of the GOPers and their secret fantasies….
Oh well……politics as usual!
Oh the tangled webs we weave…