Irascible Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning has been a pariah among his congressional colleagues. Back in the conservative swath of northern Kentucky he calls home, though, he's being heralded as a hero.
Democrats bemoaned Bunning as unsympathetic to down-on-their-luck Americans when he single-handedly held up a $10 billion spending bill that had money for jobless benefits. He's not popular among Republican senators, either _ including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky _ who worked to dry up the brash lawmaker's fundraising so he'd have no choice but to drop out of his re-election campaign.
Back home, the former major league pitcher and …
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