Maybe Number 60 In 2010?

According to The Daily Kos (here), it looks like Missouri Repug Sen. Christopher Samuel “Kit” Bond won’t seek another term.

I know it’s easy to overlook Bond’s own peculiar brand of wingnuttery, but fortunately, that’s why bloggers exist, including yours truly. So, with that in mind…

This tells us of how Bond warned that, were Barack Obama to win the presidency, he would nominate judges who empathize with “the gay,” again, assuming somehow that there’s only one.

This tells us that Bond tried to kill a proposed new program in which mortgage holders would refinance hundreds of thousands of at-risk home loans in return for Federal Housing Administration backing of the reworked loans.

This tells us that Bond believed waterboarding to be “like swimming, freestyle, backstroke.”

This tells us that Bond (with help from his Repug pals) concocted the supposed “issue” of who exactly it was who sent Ambassador Joe Wilson to Niger to investigate the infamous (and utterly bogus) claim that Saddam Hussein had bought uranium from that country for militarized enrichment.

This tells us of a typically self-aggrandizing photo op for Bond in Iraq.

This tells us that Bond was one of two senators to vote against repealing a USA Patriot Act provision used by the Bush administration to appoint U.S. attorneys without Senate confirmation (Chuck Hagel was the other).

This tells us that Bond blew off a Senate debate on the Iraq war shortly after the 110th Congress convened.

This tells us that, among other things, Bond actually earned a negative rating from the Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP…wow, talk about an endangered species!). The Wikipedia article also tells us that Bond was instrumental in the firing of U.S. Attorney Todd Graves for his investigation into Missouri Repug U.S. House Rep Sam Graves (no relation).

So good luck with your retirement, “Kit”; I’m sure you’ll just be so pleased to be roaring at the crickets and the backyard wildlife from the view of your porch instead of inflicting this treatment on your constituents from the chamber of the U.S. Senate (and this post from earlier today tells us of the doings of one of Bond’s ideological kinsmen in the House, and in PA in particular).

Update 1: Here's more from brownsox at The Daily Kos.

Update 2 1/28/09: Can't leave soon enough if you ask me (here)...