[Photo from Fox News]One has to wonder why any sane person would vote for a Republican these days. The party of "No" just keeps getting worse. Jim Bunning, a Repugnican member of Congress from Kentucky, exemplifies the Grand Old Patch of hypocrites.
Joe Conason excoriates the nogoodnik in a recent article in Salon. Bunning has filibustered against extending unemployment insurance benefits which means that as of today, those benefits run out for hundreds of thousands of men, women and children living on the edge!
"Loutist, eccentric and mean, he [Bunning] says that his filibuster ... is spurred by his concern over the federal deficit." Of course, he had no problem running up the deficit to cut taxes for the rich or engage in an illegal war in Iraq!
That's bad enough, but Conason points out that Bunning is operating a "phony 'charitable' operation as a front for his business selling autographed balls. As this outfit's sole employee, working one hour a week, he has paid himself hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past 10 years -- considerably more than the amount donated to any actual charity.
"... Clearly Bunning is a man of low character, even for someone who belongs to what Twain described as 'our only distinctly native American criminal class.'"
There's much more and you can read it all here.
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Bunning should be exiled to Canada - so the rest of us can stop threatening to move there:
The Last Straw
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