How can a guy with the mental acuity of a kumquat shut down congress? (re: Bunning) [View All]

Seriously, I have old, rusted dull knives that are sharper than Jim Bunning. There has always been rumors that he has some health issues that could be affecting his mental abilities but hell, we knew from Strom Thurmond that all one needs to be able to do is hit a bottom to vote - the rest you can have the staff do for you.

Suddenly this lackluster senator who barely knows what he is doing is pulling a political maneuver that is shutting down the government and cutting support for thousands of people with unemployment and COBRA. I don't get it - this guy barely knows what is happening in congress (unless it's baseball related) and suddenly he is fully aware that he can pull a stunt like this that is pretty much pissing off the entire country on both sides of the political spectrum.

Personally I smell a rat.

I suspect that this isn't Bunning pulling this stunt but the Republicans trying to make themselves out to be some sort of heroes. First, Bunning has absolutely nothing to lose. He's a lame duck that is gone in less than a year and once retired he is out of politics forever. So for him to pull a stunt like this - well it's no sweat off his back.

BUT.....what better way to make the republican party look like hero's than to have THEM stop this stunt with Bunning? Oooh look at us Republicans, it was us that made Jim Bunning stop, it was US that intervened and ended this impasse, it was US that restored these payments back to the working class poor.

There is no way Jim Bunning could have done a stunt like this on his own - I highly doubt he knows what day it is today.