Justice Ginsburg: I Wanted That Senator To See I'm Alive
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is responding to Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY), without naming him directly, over his recent prediction that she would be dead from pancreatic cancer within nine months.
In an interview with USA Today, Ginsburg explained why she made sure to attend President Obama's speech to Congress last week. "First, I wanted people to see that the Supreme Court isn't all male," the lone female justice said of the evening event Feb. 24. "I also wanted them to see I was alive and well, contrary to that senator who said I'd be dead within nine months."
Bunning made his remarks while speaking to a local GOP event back home in Kentucky, in explaining the importance of his commitment to appointing conservative judges, and how this would be an issue soon.
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Bunning is an insensitive jerk, and good for Justice Ginsburg for commenting!
March 6, 2009 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Atta girl Ruth! Judicial restraint bedamned. Sock him in the kisser!
March 6, 2009 3:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
She is an American hero for putting right in Bunning face!
March 6, 2009 3:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I believe this was a polite, ladylike, restrained way of saying, "F*ck you, buddy!"
March 6, 2009 3:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good for her. Fuck you Jim Bunning.
March 6, 2009 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nice of her not to point out that Bunning is deader than a doornail, politically speaking. You rock, Justic Ginsberg!
March 6, 2009 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's kinda like that skit in "Holy Grail" -
Ginsburg: "I'm not dead yet!"
Bunning: "Well, you will be soon, you're very ill."
Ginsburg: "I'm getting better."
Bunning: "No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment."
Except, you know, it's really not all that funny.
March 6, 2009 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bunning is a jackass who doesn't know what to say out of his stupid mouth. Good on Justince Ginsburg to put his ass in place.
Maybe he was hit in the head with too many baseballs...or wasn't hit with enough.
March 6, 2009 5:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Senile is not a diagnosis. Does he have some brain deterioration like dementia or Alzheimer's? One of their stages is increasing crankiness. Or, is Jim Bunning just a jerk?
I see Rush talked about Kennedy dying today. Maybe we just ought to send these out of line Republicans to charm school. Their families didn't raise them to behave like that....or did they?
March 6, 2009 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Odd, tracking his Senatorial career, you'd think Bunning had been hit by the beanballs, instead of throwing them.
Thanks.
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March 6, 2009 5:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's another imbecile born without an empathy gene.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/06/limbaugh-kennedy-will-be_n_172595.html
here's loathsome rush wishing Ted Kennedy dead
March 6, 2009 5:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Justice Ginsburg: You go girl!
March 6, 2009 9:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
The fates are fickle. Now that bankrupt souls like Bunning and Limbaugh have gleefully anticipated Ms. Ginsburg's imminent demise; they might want to keep knocking on wood regularly. (Their heads must be readily available to their knuckles - they'll always have something handy and hollow to tap on...until they are dead, of course.)
March 7, 2009 12:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Neither Bunning nor any other political figure ever said anything suggesting they wanted Justice Ginsburg to die. And Bunning apologized for what he did say about her health, which was inappropriate - there was no good reason for him to talk publicly about Justice Ginsbrug's health.
But Justice Ginsburg could have been big enough to just let it drop, like a judge should, instead of getting in a battle with a politician? And who cares how many females are on the Supreme Court? They could all be females as far as I'm concerned.
Also, one other point should be obvious even to left wing partisans who are so extreme they think conservatives don't wish Ginsburg the best in his health challenges. Bunning and other conservatives obviously are rooting for Justice Ginsburg to beat her cancer for political reasons. If Justice Ginsburg leaves the court during President Obama's term, she will be replaced with a young liberal clone in our hopelessly partisan world of political appointments to the Supreme Court.
As Althouse has pointed out, despite Justice Ginsburg's perhaps understandable bravado, Bunning will not be wrong until November comes around and Justice Ginsburg is still voting her liberal views on the court.
I hope Justice Ginsburg lives a long and health life. I don't know Justice Ginsburg's religious beliefs about the possibility of God's judgment after death, but for her and other Supreme Court justices who have created abortion on demand and the resulting millions of aborted babies, I sometmes wonder the extent to which they have concerns or perhaps panic as they prepare to "meet their maker." For Justices (or politicians) who are true believing Catholics, they must be in a state of panic as they face death. If there is a God sitting in judgment, I doubt that he will think much of the line between political/judicial beliefs and actions and personal beliefs and actions.
March 7, 2009 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please let each of us live our lives within the constitution, the laws of the land and our ethics without being judged by you, a church or anyone else. Facing our Maker alone and accounting for our life's journey is our own special privilege at the end of our lives.....or maybe not, who knows, really?
Your life is your business and our lives are ours when we die. Save your judgments for your own life, please and I will do the same.
March 7, 2009 6:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rain39:
I mean no disrepect to you, but your comments seem like platitudes. You want each to live our lives "within the constitution, the laws of the land." Those are man made things, coincidently in part made by Justice Ginsburg's personal opinions and judgments. When Justice Ginsburg affects the lives of others through her opinions, it obviously is the business of me, you and others.
While I do have an adverse opinion of Justice Ginsburg based on my view of her imposing her liberal opinions on the country, and particularly the made up constitutional right to abortion on demand, my adverse opinion was not the subject of my post. The subject was how pro-abortion on demand people like Justice Ginsburg might view potential judgment by God as they face their own mortality. They almost have to give it some thought and have some concerns. Can you imagine the "Oh sh_t" moment for Ginsburg, Blackmun, Stevens, O'Connor, Brennan, Souter et al if there is a God who sits in judgment of them for their actions with respect to abortion?
March 7, 2009 9:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Of course some may have the same "Oh shit" moment when they face responsibility for deaths of women who lose their choice for their body because a small minority impose their interpretation of a book written by primitive clans a couple millennium ago. Just because a fringe group thinks a zygote deserves the same protection as an existing human doesn't make it so.
March 9, 2009 10:35 AM | Reply | Permalink