Starboard Broadside

Retiring Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY), known for some serious anger management issues in public, is not handling criticism well after he seized the Senate and blocked extension of some unemployment benefits, transportation projects, etc. This resulted in immediate termination of benefits to over 1 million Americans today as well as cuts to Medicare payouts. His actions have already resulted in the Dept. of Transportation furloughing a thousand workers today, with more layoffs imminent if he's not stopped. In fact, because the DoT is furloughing inspectors at job sites, this means a ripple effect as job sites shut down temporarily and workers have to find work elsewhere. It's a bad situation.

Today he flipped out at some journalists who tried to ask him about this:

He also flipped them off, off camera, they're claiming. But screaming at them is unseemly enough. We already knew that he doesn't like the local media, but this took it national.