Jim Bunning was a major league baseball pitcher before becoming a politician. That qualifies as real life experience because you can get fired. He started pitching for the Detroit Tigers in 1955 and pitched his first no-hitter in 1958. He joined the Philadelphia Phillies in 1964 and pitched a perfect game for them on June 21 which was Father’s Day. How often does a pitcher pitch a perfect game? Well, in the National League, where Bunning pitched his, the previous one had occurred in 1880. There have now been 18 total in both leagues. As Wikipedia points out, more people have orbited the moon than thrown a perfect game. The US has had more presidents than perfect game pitchers. Obama’s wife has more aides and staff members than have ever in history thrown a perfect game. Oprah has been on more diets; Clinton more interns and girlfriends; Rangel more junkets; Tiger more waitresses; Sanford more trail treks and so forth.
The fact that this man pitched both a no-hitter and a perfect game places him in even more exclusive company. That feat has been accomplished by only six pitchers in history. Good baseball trivia question. Name the other five.
What causes a man to be able to accomplish these rare feats? TheFundamentals would suggest a few skills and traits: confidence; knowledge of the opponents; darn good curveball; really good fastball; some good fortune and a good defensive team backing you up. One more thing about Bunning. He didn’t always do what he was told to do. He often waved off pitch suggestions from his manager and catcher. He was and is his own man.
So, what does this have to do with the topics that TheFundamentals addresses? Bunning is retiring from the senate at the end of the year. He decided recently that it was time for the government to stop passing more spending legislation without paying for it. He has often been a maverick in the senate. So he stopped legislation to extend unemployment benefits. You can imagine the outcry. After several days of getting no support he backed off. He actually stopped for several days an extension of unemployment benefits and some other spending projects. Can you imagine? What audacity?
Here is a long quote from the head of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka: “Last Friday Senator Bunning single-handily blocked a vote on a House bill (H.R. 4691) that would have provided a short-term extension of the federal highway bill. Because authorization for the highway bill has expired, highway trust fund money cannot be collected or spent, and employees at the Transportation Department whose salaries are paid out of the trust fund have to be furloughed.
Yesterday Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that 2,000 employees are being furloughed, primarily at the Federal Highway Administration (FHA), the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, some portions of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and some portions of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA).
The lapse of highway bill authorization means construction workers will be sent home from job sites because federal inspectors must be furloughed. Secretary LaHood also released a list of 41 federal lands construction projects in 17 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands that will be halted because federal inspectors are being pulled off the job. Halting these projects will make it harder for local economies, businesses, and working families to recover from the worst recession since the Great Depression.
There is simply no excuse for Senator Bunning holding these 2,000 furloughed workers hostage. Or for his holding construction workers at 41 projects across the country hostage. Or for his holding 1.2 million jobless workers hostage.
Senator Bunning embodies everything that is wrong with the U.S. Senate today: the ability of individual small-minded, selfish politicians to single-handedly prevent the majority from helping people who need help and solving our country's problems. “
Trumka had his say. Here is ours. Trumka has never met a subsidy, a bureaucrat, a protective piece of union legislation or a government program that he didn’t like. Who will stand up to the Trumka’s when Bunning is gone? Who will replace him? Will he/she stand up to the special interests like the AFL-CIO and say “enough?” In November, these politicians will ask for your vote. They might even say that they will stop the government spending. Ask them where they were when the man on the mound needed some help. Ask them what project(s) will they stop? What government spending plans they will stop? What government employees they will terminate? How many will they permanently furlough? What government agencies they will eliminate? What bureaucracies they will shut down? What debt they will repay? What special interest groups they will send home without a government check? ASK THEM WHERE WERE THEY WHEN THE LONESOME MAN WAS ON THE MOUND?
To paraphrase Trumka, “What’s wrong with the senate today?” TheFundamentals thinks that there are not enough small minded, selfish politicians in the senate to say “Enough.” There are too many large waisted, greedy special interest folks like Trumka with their hands out and their lawyers in tow. There are not enough furloughed government employees. 2,000? What the heck? We need 200,000 furloughed.
One last thing about the man on the mound; from his USSenate biography:
“Although his election in the U.S. Senate and induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame stand out as top moments in his life, the all-time high point in his life was his marriage to Mary Catherine Theis. Together, they raised nine children and have 35 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren. Jim and Mary make their home in Southgate, Kentucky and are active members of the St. Therese Catholic Church in Southgate, Kentucky.”
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High praise indeed for this show of courage. It is a pity, though, that Sen. Bunning made this intrepid move on his way out of the Senate, and had no re-election repercussions to concern him. One wonders, first, would he have made the effort if he had to face another stiff election race,and secondly, does this not argue for term limits? One ventures to ponder what other feats of courage one might see if those holding office were free to worry less about their careers in office, including, astronomical salaries, perks beyond imagination, power unheard of in history, etc.
It takes no courage to play with people's ability to earn a living or to get subsistence monies to feed their families when they are out of work. As far as I can tell, he was being spiteful due to the fact that he lacks support in the Republican Party. Being an above average pitcher does not qualify him for a place running our country. His lack of discretion shows why we will all be better without him. This is particularly true in a hard hit state such as Kentucky.
I cannot fathom how voting against a welfare program like extended unemployment benefits is playing with people's ability to earn a living. Rather, not knowing there's a handout may impel an idle worker to achieve new heights in his/her efforts to find employment.
We agree that being an above average pitcher does not qualify one for a position of power.
Perhaps if Sen. Bunning had been a mediocre comedian(Al Franken), or an astronaut(John Glenn) or a community organizer(Barack Obama), he may have acquired the necessary wisdom needed to stand at the trough of pork, spoon at the ready, and dished out more of either other people's money, or the cheap, printed, fake stuff.
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