Comments on: Justice Ginsburg to Senator Bunning: “Screw You”

By: wrchambers

wrchambers — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:36:38 +0000

From the sports (metaphor) department: Senator Bunning throws high and inside to Justice Ginsburg
by WICK CHAMBERS on FEBRUARY 24, 2009
Former major league pitcher, Hall of Famer Jim Bunning, Republican Senator from Kentucky, recently fired a beanball at Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The story is here courtesy of Michael Doyle’s blog, Suits and Sentences. Drawing on his experience as a ball player, investment broker and U.S. Senator, Bunning predicted that Justice Ginsburg would be dead in nine months from pancreatic cancer

There’s not much to say.

Senator Bunning’s double shoe removal surgery is scheduled for later this week. Doctors are seekng a suitable donor for a manners transplant.

By: selise

selise — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:50:17 +0000

readerOfTeaLeaves – i just went and listened to bennett again and now i’m pissed off all over again. was any new ground covered that wasn’t known months ago? did bennett push back on any of the bullshit – bullshit that other hearing witnesses have already explained is bullshit?

this happened last september. it’s now march. this crisis rises almost to the level of an exstitential crisis and this is the best they can do 5 fucking months later? where are the questions on fraud? evidence of massive levels of criminal activity is being covered up.

seriously – what new revelations were elicited by even semi-decent questioning? pitiful. lame. and ultimately deadly for many many people – which is why i’m so pissed off.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:17:30 +0000

selise, if you happen to come back…
I thought that Mark Bennett (newly appointed D-CO) starting at 2:00:00 was superb, really, really good questions and also just took the rug out under the whole, “We’re Monday morning quarterbacking” whine by pointing out that there’s no point to any regulation if you don’t do some analysis of what’s gone wrong.

Also, the Dem from N.Dakota posed questions that really got some good response.
Ditto Mark Warner at 1:42
Looks like Merkeley (D-OR) is still getting up to speed but he was quite up-front about that and showed a genuine effort to connect a lot of dots.

I’m more optimistic than you sounded. They need to dig deeper, but I actually thought the Dems asked better questions overall — by far.
There were some interesting revelations.

By: Margot

Margot — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:00:59 +0000

New post—>

By: BitterScribe

BitterScribe — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:46:18 +0000

Oh, don’t ask for the moon. I’d settle for Scalia or Thomas.

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:31:34 +0000

I’m pretty sure that the President’s Council on Physical Fitness is a voluntary, non-paying position so an appointment to it wouldn’t do much to get Bunning out of the Senate.

By: macaquerman

macaquerman — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:19:58 +0000

It’s a bit hard to think that they didn’t have a real clear idea of aristocratic power and prominent families.

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:19:19 +0000

I saw the movie The International yesterday. A international intrigue thriller with a somewhat OTT plot, but good entertainment. There is an interrogation scene near the end. When it was obvious what was going to happen, I waited with baited breath for how it would come off as an indicator of how this would be protrayed in popular culture. Well, golly gee, they did it by knowing a lot about the perp and convincing him to fulfill his lifetime of working for causes (though circumstances had sucked him into the dark side) by doing the right thing, which he did. No torture, no threats, just rationale persuasion. We should send Scalia movie tickets for him, his family, his colleagues, his friends.

Not saying it’s always that easy; it’s a movie after all. But I was encouraged to see this bit of enlightenment on the big screen.

For me, the movie was real entertainment. In addition to great shots and scenery in several of the world’s great places, a large part was filmed in Manhattan. I recognized every building and street corner. For at least the third time in the last few years, the 54th St Recreational Center building, a block from where I live, was also in this movie. The link gives the history of the building, but I couldn’t find a photo. The exterior is unusual.

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:12:36 +0000

There’s a rumor going around that, rather than put up with being starved out of his seat by Mitch McConnell and the RSCC, Bunning might actually consider leaving his post on his own terms, in spite of his denials of such last week. He might be willing to serve a term on the President’s Council of Physical Fitness, being a very sports-oriented person (Hall of Fame pitcher and all that).

By: Badwater

Badwater — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:10:51 +0000

The framers never anticipated the rise to power of a semi-royal family, namely the Bush family. Hopefully that tragic era is now gone.