Sen. Bunning: Pitching for America by Pat Buchanan
It was Father’s Day, 1964, when the Phillies’ Jim Bunning, a father of seven, took the mound against the Mets.
Ninety pitches later, Bunning had struck out 10 and allowed not one batter to reach first base. Twenty-seven up, 27 down. The first perfect game in 86 years in the National League, and the finest hour of the Hall of Famer’s baseball career.
Beginning last week, Jim Bunning took the Senate floor for five straight days to object to Harry Reid’s call for unanimous consent to waive through a $10 billion spending bill. First, the Kentucky senator demanded, show me how we’re going to pay for it.
His own leadership abandoned Bunning. Susan Collins of Maine assured the Senate and country that Republicans did not back their colleague: “Senator Bunning’s views do not represent a majority of the caucus. It’s important that the American people understand that there is bipartisan support for extending these vital programs.”
Vital programs?
Had Bunning blocked rescue flights to Port au Prince or Santiago, or ammunition for the Marines in Marja?
SNIP
America is headed for a time when, like the British Empire, she is going to have to make painful choices, or have them forced upon us.
He may have been booed all last week, but Jim Bunning pitched one of the best games of his career.
Great article by Pat.
Great article by Pat. Bunning has done this country well this past week.
Reality to ponder from this article
This has bothered me ever since I read it Friday morning:
"Consider. Congress this year will spend $1.6 trillion more than it collects in revenue, with the largest outlays in that FY 2010 budget for defense at $719 billion and Social Security at $721 billion.
Thus, if the U.S. Government on Oct. 1, 2008, had shut down the Pentagon and furloughed every soldier and civilian here and around the world, and announced that it would not send out a Social Security check for a full year to any of the 50 million retired and elderly, we would still be $160 billion short of balancing the budget. If you zeroed out federal benefits to veterans for a full year, that, added in, would bring us close.
Such is the magnitude of the fiscal crisis facing the country."
Hasn't Bunning endorsed Trey Greyson?
If so, i can see them promoting this guy up to superhero status at which time the focus will shift to who he endorses for his Senate seat. This one makes me nervous. Even though he's doing some good things; im glad his approval ratings at last polling were low.
Bunning hasn't endorsed Grayson.
He may not do so, considering the fact that Trey Grayson is Mitch McConnell's boy, and McConnell dried up Bunning's fundraising. Otherwise, Bunning would have run for re-election this year. While it would be nice if Bunning endorsed Rand, don't be surprised if he remains neutral.