I’m thinking we need to change the name from “Whack Job of the Week.” They are all whack jobs. Maybe a different name every week, or something like that. For Bunning, a Hall of Fame baseball player and barely adequate human, I’m thinking “Bobblehead” works. I’d go with “Clown,” too, as does the New York Observor, calling Bunning an “Immovable Clown of the Senate.” The man certainly has made himself a clown, and this weekend he flip flopped and bobbleheaded around quite a bit, probably enough to make his own party angry. Mitch McConnell, no great shakes in the integrity department, has got to be thinking he’s got a whack job for a Junior Senator. And Mitch McConnell doesn’t want to support Bunning’s try for another term, at least as rumor has it. So how does Bunning respond to the lack of fundraising help from the big guns like McConnell at the GOP? He threatens them. From UPI:

The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal reported Friday that Bunning, who is at odds with his party’s leadership, would allow Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear to appoint his replacement if the GOP blocks his fundraising efforts, he said at a campaign event this week in Washington.

“I would get the last laugh. Don’t forget Kentucky has a Democrat governor,” one of the sources quoted Bunning as saying. “The only logical extension of that comment is, ‘(Make me mad) … enough and I’ll resign, and then you’ve got 60 Democrats,’” said another source who was present at the event.

Now here’s where the bobblehead comes in. Bunning, a true Republican, and with a deteriorating brain, to boot, now denies he ever said such a thing. He evidently said it in front of a room full of lobbyists, but now he’s saying the lobbyists and others who reported his resignation scheme are lying. It all seems to be hurting the Republicans in Kentucky, whatever the outcome, at least according to one source cited by, Politico:

“He may not resign and automatically give the seat to the Democrats, but his behavior and actions are going to have the results of handing the seat to the Democrats,” said one leading Kentucky GOP operative.

And so the GOP continues to suffer self-inflicted wounds, this time because about 20 years or so they recruited Jim Bunning, not because he was qualified, but because he had a big name and could be elected. For Republicans it is always about winning rather than about competence, leadership, principles, ethics. Now their stupid recruiting of Bunning is coming back to bite them in the ass. I can’t think of a more deserving bunch of folks.