We all have them at times. According to the GOP party leadership, Kentucky senator Jim Bunning has them big time. They want to get rid of him. It seems kind of inconsistent, given that he makes a practice of emulating the attitudes and behaviors of the party's acknowledged leader, Rush Limbaugh. Getting rid of Bunning probably won't be any easier than hefting Rush off the scene.
“The Republicans have dynamite on their hands,” Mr. Cross said. “There’s always been dynamite with Bunning. But now they have a fuse.”
The fuse is Mr. Bunning’s campaign for a third term in 2010, which is already threatening to become an ugly internecine smackdown. The main characters are Mr. Bunning; Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who heads the National Republican Senatorial Committee; and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, who annoyed his fellow Kentuckian recently when he said he did not know whether Mr. Bunning would seek re-election (leading Mr. Bunning to question the quality of Mr. McConnell’s memory).
When asked about Mr. Bunning on Tuesday en route to a Republican luncheon at the Capitol, Mr. McConnell said nothing and continued walking.
You have to wonder, given the attitudes and behaviors of most Republican representatives lately, whether the entire party might not need therapy or at least a full course of anger management. I'd settle for all Gop'ers doing what Mitch McConnell is doing: saying nothing and continuing to walk. Far, far away.