New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich specializes in spunky profiles of politicians -- hostile profiles of conservatives, flattering ones of liberals. His latest, on controversial Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, "Republicans Looking for a Reliever in Kentucky," fell safely into the former c...

I’m thinking we need to change the name from “Whack Job of the Week.” They are all whack jobs. Maybe a different name every week, or something like that. For Bunning, a Hall of Fame baseball player and barely adequate human, I’m thinking “Bobblehead” works. I̵...

Earlier in the week, we wrote that Jim Bunning was so hopping mad at the not-so-subtle attempts of Republican leadership to push him into oblivion that we half expected Bunning to barricade himself inside his Senate office with a shotgun, defending his rightful territory against any would-be usurper...

RNC piss off Republican Senator....

Jim Bunning won't roll over for anybody, least of all a young punk like NRSC chairman John Cornyn, or anyone else in Republican leadership for that matter. He has this Senate seat, and it's freakin' golden, and you don't just give that up for nothing, after all! So Bunning has been lashing out at Co...

No one, but no one, will take Jim Bunning's seat away from him! Not while he's alive! And should the powers that be in the Republican Party dare try and find another candidate to replace everyone's favorite senile sourpuss... ...should anyone even dare raise the spectre of a challenge to the increas...

"That's foolish talk." That is how Chris Matthews described what Bobby Jindal, governor of one of my favorite states,Louisiana, was saying about the stimulus package on "Meet The Press" on Sunday. Unless you have been on another planet for the past few days, I am sure you have heard by now that Jind...

Well, that didn't take long. Kentucky senator and former Phillie Jim Bunning apologized for practically wishing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg into the cornfield recently. But on closer inspection, what's wrong with his apology? From the New York Daily News: "I apologize if my comments offended Justice...

We thought there had been only one doctor in the Senate. Little did we know ... Bunning: Justice Ginsberg likely will be dead in 9 months U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning predicted over the weekend that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would likely be dead from pancreatic cancer within nine month...

We thought there had been only one doctor in the Senate. Little did we know ... Bunning: Justice Ginsberg likely will be dead in 9 months U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning predicted over the weekend that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would likely be dead from pancreatic cancer within nine month...