Reason Prevails, Bunning Backs Down

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The Bunning circus act is over.

As supporters and critics yelled at each other outside his Lexington office, he capitulated from the well of the Senate on Tuesday night.

Relentless attacks from Democrats and withering support from Republicans, worried that the Hall of Fame pitcher was turning the party’s message of principled objection to raging obstructionism, ended Bunning’s stand. He had forced about 2,000 federal employees into furloughs and imperiled jobless benefits for millions.

And he had forced some in his own caucus to distance themselves. Early next year, Bunning will conclude a Senate career studded with impolitic comments, and he appears long past taking any direction or advice from GOP leaders.

“Principled objection”?  They’ve got to be kidding.  Bunning was not responsible for “turning the party’s message of principled objection to raging obstructionism.“  He was only responsible for turning Republican’s raging obstructionism into more raging obstructionism. In any event, in nine months one of the worst Senators in Congress will be history. I’m sure that day cannot come fast enough for GOP leaders long embarrassed by Bunning who even by Republican’s pathetically low standards, was an A-1 idiot.

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