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	<title><![CDATA[Jim Bunning Threatens To Resign From Senate To Hurt GOP]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/27/jim-bunning-threatens-to_n_170665.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>The Louisville Courier-Journal has <a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090227/NEWS01/90227025">another bombshell</a> about Sen. Jim Bunning, the embattled Republican who is increasingly going rogue in an effort to hold onto his seat. </p>

<p>In recent weeks, Senate Republican leaders have walked right up to the <a href="http://www.politicalbase.com/profile/Mark%20Nickolas/blog/&amp;blogId=6406">edge of declaring open war</a> on Bunning. Minority Leader (and fellow Kentucky senator) Mitch McConnell and others reportedly believe Bunning is likely to lose his reelection race in 2010, and so are trying to nudge him into retirement by sending...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-02-27T19:10:00-05:00</date_published>
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