(GOP senator) Bunning scratched from lineup at (Detroit) trade center

[Bill McBlueState]

Source: Detroit Free Press

U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning won’t be selling his autograph in Michigan this weekend after all.

Bunning, who pitched nine seasons for the Detroit Tigers and was inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame before voters in his native Kentucky elected him to the Senate in 1998, had been scheduled to sign baseballs at the Gibraltar Trade Center in Taylor this Sunday at $35 a pop.

But this morning, hours after Bunning and other Republican senators derailed a House-passed proposal to lend $14 billion to Detroit’s beleaguered automakers, the trade center posted a terse notice that Bunning's scheduled Sunday afternoon appearance had been canceled.

Gibraltar Trade Center president Jim Koester said he had scheduled Bunning’s visit “well in advance of the auto vote” and that he decided to cancel the center’s contract with Bunning hours after reading in the Free Press that the Kentucky senator had opposed federal loans for the Detroit Three.

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Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20081212/NEWS02/81212048

[MichiganVote]

1. Fuck them all. No room in Michigan for these bastards.

[grantcart]

2. what are Republican office holders in Michigan saying and doing

I would imagine some, if not all, are leaving the party.


what a fucking discrace.

[Libertas1776]

3. ...

I have have a feeling that the Michigan Republican Party is about to become a distant memory.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. I hope that trend goes nationwide...

I think it just might. The Democrats reached across the aisle and got their knuckles whacked...so much for Obama's "Bipartisanship" and goodwill honeymoon. You can't make deals with corporate terrorists and thugs.

[CreekDog]

17. might spread to Ohio, Indiana and other Big 3 states

disgraceful.

[tclambert]

7. Michigan has no Republican senators. The House members

supported the bailout legislation.

From The Detroit News:

"Rep. Thad McCotter, R-Livonia, delivered an eight-minute plea to help a struggling state's economic backbone."

"'Inaction,' said Rep. Candice Miller, R-Harrison Township, 'is not an option.'"

"supporters of the auto bailout, led by Michigan members of both parties, argued that failure to act would lead to economic disaster in Michigan and beyond."

Of course, it passed in the House. It was the Senate that denied the measure an "up-or-down" vote. You know Michigan's Senators, Levin and Stabenow, fought hard for it.

[No Elephants]

14. Of course, Michigan Pugs supported it. They want to get re-elected. But I doubt Michigan will

forget which political Party did in the loan.

[sufrommich]

11. They're shaking in their boots and supporting the bailout

loudly.There is zero tolerance here for anything less than full support for the auto loan.

[bluecollarcharlie]

16. Pity. Pity and a damn shame.

As a UAW member and as a citizen of this state i was really ready to show that bastard ass son of bitch the proper welcome that he so richly deserves.

[JI7]

5. isn't he senile anyways ?

[BR_Parkway]

6. Signing baseballs for $35 a pop? Not a sports fan, but selling your

autograph? Anything for a dollar huh? I'm surprised they haven't considered that there might be a market for their used toilet paper. I can just imagine one of these guys, sitting there all content, and just as they reach for the handle to flush - wondering if they could possibly squeeze some profit out of it.

[crikkett]

8. It's a good thing, I got this mental picture of him being in mortal danger

from a line of angry citizens armed with baseballs.

[saigon68]

9. These Corpo-Thugs are out to bust all unions

That way wages will mimic a third world country, and the top 2% of Corpo-Thug PIGS, can greedily, swill at the trough.

[Faygo Kid]

10. I wish he would have gone - UAW was going to turn out 5,000 protesters.

That would have been a pretty sight to see for the right-wing SOB.

[sufrommich]

12. Me too. I think the UAW would have been joined by

many,many more.

[CitizenPatriot]

13. um...this guy was a baseball player and is now a R senator?

Help me out here, because it's looking like the pukes are the party of celebrity no nothings. Schwartzenegger, Reagan, etc.

Can we please stop electing people who have no background in the law, economics, and/or political science? How can we expect them to do a good job when they have no fucking clue what they are doing?

End the Republican Celebrity Reign! End the party of Herbert Hoover for good.

[MasonJar]

15. I hadn't seen Bunning's name on the anti-list, but am not surprised that

he voted against helping. I am so glad that Detroit cancelled him, not that the line would have been very long. Perhaps zero in length...that would have been both an appropriate and humorous payback. Both of my senators are scum. We almost got McConnell this time; Bunning, if he runs, will go down in 2010.

[MadMaddie]

18. Good! It is time to start the shunning and shaming of these

traitorous Bastards!