Tuesday, March 02, 2010

A Man for All Seasons

Senator Jim Bunning, Republican from Kentucky

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/03/bunning_defends_his_position.html

2 comments:

Patrick said...

This demonstrates why we need term limits. Bunning is not running for re-election so he can afford to take principled stands like these.

The good news is Rand Paul is running to replace him, and he will be just as good, if not better than, Bunning is.

2 items that must be on any "Contract 2.0" the Republicans release at the end of the summer:

1. Term limits
2. A Balanced Budget Amendment

HANK said...

Well, Jim Bunning does not have as much gonads as I thought.
I heard on the news this morning he capitulated, and voted for the extension of unemployment benefits.

I've been talking with people about the term limits issue. There is a conservative documentary, named "Generation Zero", that Sean Hannity is promoting (whom I think is a douche anyhow.) The film tries to layout why the country is in the state it's in today. One point of the film is that politicians without terms limits are a major cause of the government's unchecked expansion.