Jim Bunning Gets Cheers At Home In Kentucky

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Jim Bunning Gets Cheers At Home In Kentucky

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/13/jim-bunning-gets-cheers-a_n_498100.html



HEBRON, Ky. — Irascible Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning has been a pariah among his congressional colleagues. Back in the conservative swath of northern Kentucky he calls home, though, he's being heralded as a hero.

Democrats bemoaned Bunning as unsympathetic to down-on-their-luck Americans when he single-handedly held up a $10 billion spending bill that had money for jobless benefits. He's not popular among Republican senators, either – including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky – who worked to dry up the brash lawmaker's fundraising so he'd have no choice but to drop out of his re-election campaign.

Back home, the former major league pitcher and hall-of-famer is known as a budget hawk standing against out-of-control federal spending. Some 400 people paid $60 to $100 each to reserve seats to honor him at a dinner Saturday evening. McConnell was conspicuously absent, but scores of other politicians lavished Bunning with praise.

"Jim Bunning has been right more than he's been wrong," said Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, a Republican who thinks of Bunning as his mentor. "And history will show that he, more than anyone else, predicted some of the economic problems we're having now and worked to try to prevent them."

[KonaKane]

1. How many of those cheers came from people soon to be unemployed?

THAT is the big question. Follow up, how anxious will they be to cheer him as their benefits draw to a close?

[Lifelong Protester]

2. Paid??? $60 to $100 to hear him?

I feel bad for you Dems in Kentucky, I love your state, but man, puh-lease!! I guess next time 'round we all have to help out in the 'ditch Mitch' campaign.

[Wapsie B]

3. You mean he railed against all the deficit spending by * and Cheney?

Bravo Senator!

[williesgirl]

4. Where was he for 8 yrs as Bush ran up the deficit via illegal wars and paying the rich?

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. An asshole usually attracts hemmorhoids.

Welcome home, A-hole.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. LOLOLOLOL

[Last_Stand]

6. How long are the poor and middle classes...

going to let these soulless fuckers spit in our faces while they honor each other and pat one another on the back?

[sharesunited]

7. What is he raising money for? I thought he was retiring.

Or is this just Sarah-Palin-type speaking engagement income?

[opihimoimoi]

9. Ya can't Trust those crazy Republican GOPers....who vote their clones into office..his presence make

the GOP REPUBLICAN PARTY LOOK LIKE SHIT...

They will be among the last of those in the Solution Money LINE....case in point...Green is Gold...snooze and lose or join and profit....