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Throughout my childhood, and into my alleged adult years, Jim Bunning was always the answer to this trivia question: Name the Phillies pitcher who threw a perfect game on Father's Day in 1964.
The answer: Jim Bunning.
As that became easy, the additional question was tacked on. What is he doing now? The answer was that he was a congressman from Kentucky.
Add a third question now.
Who can name the former Phillies pitcher who threw a perfect game in 1964, became a congressman from Kentucky and then became perfectly lame in 2010 by stonewalling jobs benefits with his conservative pomposity.
The answer: Jim Bunning.
As that became easy, the additional question was tacked on. What is he doing now? The answer was that he was a congressman from Kentucky.
Add a third question now.
Who can name the former Phillies pitcher who threw a perfect game in 1964, became a congressman from Kentucky and then became perfectly lame in 2010 by stonewalling jobs benefits with his conservative pomposity.
posted by Gordon Glantz at
12:16 PM
6 Comments:
Here's what I just left for Jim Bunning on his Senate web page:
I grew up a fan of the Philadelphia Phillies and especially a fan of Jim Bunning. I was 10 years old when you threw your perfect game against the Mets.
You were a hero, Jim. And now? Now you are nothing but a bitter old man, trying to prove some minor point by cutting off millions of families from the money and benefits they need to survive.
When I was a kid, you made me smile, you made me cheer, you made me happy. Today, there are millions of kids across this country that you're making sick, that you're making scared, that you're making cry.
Is that really the reputation you want to carry away from your service in the Senate? "The Man who Hurt Families." "The Man who Made Kids Cry."
Just stop this, Jim. There's still time to go out a hero, but that time is running out.
Perfect game to perfectly lame!
... and a shame!
Thank God for people like Jim Bunning. Jim is my hero for standing up to the likes of Pelosi and Reed. Bunning is showing us all with a flashing red neon sign what needs to be done to fiscally get our house in order. Wake up people before the "out-of-control deficit-snowball" runs us over. If you think this minor delay is painful, you're in for a big surprise. Making kids sick, scared and cry? Puh-leaze.. You all act like he didn't care - that was not the case. He merely wanted to take unused stimulus funds, that were already approved, and redirect them for the extension. Kinda like taking some of your savings instead of borrowing more from the bank. Those same kids will be paying dearly for the mistakes Jim Bunning is trying to prevent.
If he wanted to get his own way, he needed to convince the other Senators that it was the right way. That's what a deliberative, legislative body does.
Instead, when he wasn't getting his way, Bunning threw a tantrum and as a result, he nearly ended up screwing with the survival of millions of Americans who are reduced to getting by on unemployment thanks to the Bush recession/depression. You can Puh-leaze all you want, the reality is that Bunning is a broken, angry, half-senile old man who has no business being on the floor of the Senate. The people of Kentucky should be ashamed of him.
Bunning is out of his league and needs to go home. If he wanted to make a point, then he should have called for all of congress to give up their perks and earmarks to pay for the costs of keeping more people from becoming homeless. He just threw a tantrum and got spanked. ROFL
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