Kentucky Republican senator, Jim Bunning, may have been hit by a base hit one too many times when he was a major league pitcher.
That is all I can explain for such a thoughtless comment about supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her battle with pancreatic cancer.
But, go further into the story.
Where Sen. Bunning takes out a lot of fury on National Republican Senate Committee chair, Sen John Cornyn for apparently willing to spend precious funds defending Sen. Arlen Specter and Sen. Oylmpia Snowe and their senate seats.
If this is true, then Sen. Cornyn has some splainin to do.
The last thing that Sen. Cornyn needs is a controversy to irritate the conservative base. Sen. Cornyn needs to have that base energized going into 2010 and the mid term elections. Also, it sets up a bad precedent of picking candidates before they are vetted by the voters. Under the leadership of Karl Rove, that happened more than once and one of the beneficiaries of that was none other than Sen. Specter in his reelection bid in 2004.
While Sen. Bunning deserves an ejection for his heartless comment on Justice Ginsburg, he deserves to have the charges against Sen. Cornyn answered. And so do all Republicans.
2 comments:
Bunning's out. He's insane. Cornyn and McConnell are recruiting other candidates.
If he's got any brain cells or pride left, he'll retire. Otherwise, he'll be stabbed in the back for everyone else to see.
I read the apology that he gave. To me, it just did not seem to cover the goof that he made.
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