Cornyn Corner: Bunning Declares War

The Junior Senator from The Great State has displayed his remarkable lack of leadership again, ticking off one of his fellow senators:

Sen. Jim Bunning all but declared war this morning on his own party’s Senate campaign committee chairman and threatened to sue the GOP if committee officials recruited an opponent to run against him in Kentucky’s 2010 Republican primary. The Kentucky Republican, who has said he is running for re-election next year, made his comments in a conference call with reporters this morning. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, confirmed to The Washington Post Monday that Kentucky Senate President David Williams had met with officials at the committee last week. Cornyn called it “a courtesy visit.” “Just to clear up any potential confusion, the NRSC supports Sen. Bunning,” Cornyn said. Asked if he was happy with Cornyn’s comments, Bunning said today: “I don’t believe anything John Cornyn says. I’ve had miscommunications with John Cornyn from, I guess, the first week of this current session of the Senate. He either doesn’t understand English or he doesn’t understand direct: ‘I’m going to run,’ which I said to him in the cloakroom of our chamber.” Bunning also said that if a candidate was recruited by the committee to run against him in a primary, he would file a lawsuit. “I would have a suit against the NRSC if they did that,” he warned. “Support of incumbents is the only reason for (the NRSC’s) existence,” Bunning added. “So if they recruited someone and supported them in a primary against me, I would be able to sue them because they’re not following their bylaws.”

What a statesman is our John Cornyn! When he's not talking marriage between a man and a box turtle, he's alienating one of the senators he's sworn to protect in his "leadership" position. He's got one of his own declaring war and accusing him of not understanding English. A suggestion to Senator Bunning: pass some sort of English Only rule in the Senate, chase Cornyn across the border, and lock the big giant fence gate behind him.