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GOP Death Watch: Day 39,023

November 3, 2009 – 1:46 pm

So here we have Louisiana Senator David Vitter being asked by a consituent about Vitter’s “no” vote on an anti-rape clause in a defense appropriations bill that passed, 68-30, last month. The clause/rider — the first authored by Frosh Senator Al “I Can’t Believe I’m A Senator” Franken — would prohibit funding to military contractors [...]

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Gettin’ Drunky in Kentucky

August 25, 2009 – 1:03 pm

Gov. Steve Beshear has declared September to be “Bourbon Heritage Month” in the Commonwealth. What does this mean? A lot of things, actually. Aside from recycling one of Sen. Jim Bunning’s old ideas, it brings to the forefront one of the things this state does and does well: Distilling fermented corn-mash into an amber nectar [...]

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Out of Sight, Out of (His) Mind, & Out to Pasture

July 28, 2009 – 5:41 pm

The simple fact is that I have not raised the funds necessary to run an effective campaign for the U.S. Senate … I will continue to do everything in my power to ensure that the United States remains true to the principles that have made this country a beacon of freedom and economic opportunity for [...]

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Bunning Continues to Self-Implode

July 7, 2009 – 7:18 pm

Did you hear that Jim Bunning crawled out of his underground bunker/iron lung/padded cell long enough to say something hilarious earlier this fine day without setting a member of the press on fire with his telekinetic death-rays? He did! Re-election is imminent!
Bunning told reporters Tuesday that he doesn’t expect his fundraising total for the second [...]

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An Open Letter to Mike Reynard

June 25, 2009 – 3:34 pm

To: Mike Reynard, Press Secretary for the Office of U.S. Senator Jim Bunning,
Let’s for a moment forget everything we’ve said about your candidate/boss, Sen. Jim Bunning — that he’s doomed, incompetent and perhaps in dire need of a DSM IV evaluation — and talk about the future. Specifically, his future.
Although a distrust of The Courier-Journal [...]

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Bunning to C-J: NO NEWS FOR YOU!!!

June 18, 2009 – 11:33 am

As much fun as it is to rag on The Courier-Journal, our hearts go out to political reporter Joe Gerth, whom was recently declared persona non grata by Sen. Jim Bunning’s office for reasons both dumb and dumber.
That means no more conference calls, no more access, just a blatant “fuck you” to a guy whose [...]

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Bunning: Footloose & Cancer-Free

April 17, 2009 – 11:26 am

Two-term incumbent wiseacre/idiot savant Jim Bunning is hilarious. So we offer you this passage from a C-J story regarding his recently disclosed fund-raising totals, which are *gasp* depressingly low:

“Everyone had been looking to see, with all this talk that the (financial) spigots had been turned off — can Bunning raise the money?” said Stuart Rothenberg, [...]

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Bunning v. Blow-up Doll

April 8, 2009 – 1:54 pm

Or winning elections — Senator Beanbag hath invoked the wrath of FOX 41’s Bill Lamb. Hilarity ensues as Lamb utilizes some novel, poetic imagery to lambast the incumbent Bunning. Get your lols out here.

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Punch-Out 2010!!!

April 7, 2009 – 1:24 pm

It’s not even the middle of April, so obviously it must be time for an update on a senate race that’s over a year-and-a-half away…
The Courier-Journal reports that Lt. Gov/noted homophobe/FEC-violating Daniel Mongiardo has successfully bested incumbent Jim Bunning(!) in the first preliminary game of Money-Tag by raising $420,000. Perhaps the funniest line in [...]

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Bunning: “Try, Try, Try Again”

March 31, 2009 – 1:16 pm

File under “it practically writes itself”: Sen. Jim Bunning describes his re-election campaign’s fund-raising efforts as “lousy,” and then proceeded to urinate on every reporter in the room.
Okay, not really. But perhaps he’s just trying to make his next quarter’s efforts seem better by comparison. Or maybe he’s having a hard time convincing his donors [...]

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