• February 13, 2012
  • DAVID SOUTER TO QUIT SUPREME COURT: Supreme Court Justice David Souter, the one George Bush Senior picked without knowing that he was secretly a French liberal queer, will retire at the end of the current session because he wants to climb mountains in New Hampshire or something before dying of old age cancer. Now Barack Obama can put Bill Ayers on the bench, as has been his plan since he was conceived in a Kenyan labratory ostrich egg in 1961. [NYT]

{ 77 comments }

jagorev April 30, 2009 at 11:56 pm

WHERE ARE YR DRUDGE SIRENS?

Aurelio May 1, 2009 at 12:02 am

Monsieur Soutier also had the low cunning to wait until Dubya retired so that some Negro faggot communist gangsta president could appoint the most pinko judge he could find.

rambone May 1, 2009 at 12:04 am

Make Daschle and Bill Richardson duke it out for the spot. [cue Star Trek fight music]

Blender May 1, 2009 at 12:06 am

Barry should float the name “Anita Hill” out there, just to see if Clarence’s head explodes.

rambone May 1, 2009 at 12:06 am

[re=305596]Aurelio[/re]: low cunning=lunning?

NotthatLC May 1, 2009 at 12:14 am

Dude, it is ON! The Wingnuts are going to lose their collective shit in five…four…three…two…one

Wait, let me go get the popcorn!

shortsshortsshorts May 1, 2009 at 12:15 am

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103694193

Brendan M., who graciously tipped us at that website I am an “editor” at says: “Or someone. David Souter is retiring.”

That, in retrospect, is what this all really means.

Lord Growing May 1, 2009 at 12:17 am

New Hampshire is legalizing gay marriage. So … there ya go.

Texan Bulldoggette May 1, 2009 at 12:21 am

Actually, I think for this first pick (because we know Ruth Bader Ginsberg is going to die soon, right, Sen. Bunning?), Barry will go centrist so he can toy with Hannity/Limbaugh/etc. a bit. By the time his 3rd or 4th appointment comes around, he’ll be appointing Olbermann & Maddow. Oh, the hilarity that will ensue!

Hooray For Anything May 1, 2009 at 12:22 am

I hope Obama nominates a black guy to the Bench. It’s been a long time since they had one

cal May 1, 2009 at 12:27 am

Damn you, Wonkette! You swore never to reveal the truth about that ostrich egg.

DAMN YOU!!!1!

– Signed, Barry Hussein Nobama

Hooray For Anything May 1, 2009 at 12:27 am

Biffed the joke– I hope Obama nominates a black guy to the bench. It’s a long time since the Supreme Court had one.

Edywin May 1, 2009 at 12:31 am

Au sujet du sujet « l’homosexuel en tant que libéral », je sais mieux. Il est une chèvre de montagne qui aime avoir des buttsecks! Moi aussi!

EnBuenOra May 1, 2009 at 12:34 am

What? You’re entirely forgetting about Ward Churchill!

NoWireHangers May 1, 2009 at 12:34 am

Yeah, but Souter’s one of the “liberal” ones so who gives a fuck. Wake me up with Scalia gets ass cancer.

tunamelt May 1, 2009 at 12:40 am

Norm Coleman for supreme court.

shortsshortsshorts May 1, 2009 at 12:45 am

[re=305627]tunamelt[/re]: Fuck ya. Let’s burn the Court system alive! We can leave the remains to Burma, or Pakistan. After all, this is America.

htnacaleoc May 1, 2009 at 12:46 am

“Who’s Not Honoring Me Now?” Don’t make Colbert do it.

shortsshortsshorts May 1, 2009 at 12:48 am

[re=305627]tunamelt[/re]: Fucking A… he’ll he there soon anyway. That is the point.

19kevin8 May 1, 2009 at 12:48 am

Any chance we can get Roberts and Alito in a steel cage to the death knife fight?

imissopus May 1, 2009 at 12:52 am

Anyone want to bet that Bill Kristol’s next column will suggest Barry show bipartisanship by nominating the snowbilly?

Oh god the starbursts, they burn…

MrsNateSilver May 1, 2009 at 12:53 am

Bill Ayers was at Brandeis tonight. I hate to admit this to you all, but I have an ex BF who’s a wingnut. He boasted of protesting the “cop killer and terrorist appearance” tonight. Then another one of his wingnut friends was like, “Yeah! Never forget 9/11″, in earnestness. All I can say is he was fun to drink with and, erm, you know, other stuff.

tunamelt May 1, 2009 at 12:54 am

[re=305634]19kevin8[/re]: Fuck that. Wrestling in coleslaw.

davesnothere May 1, 2009 at 12:58 am

Hugo Chavez!

Uncle Glenny May 1, 2009 at 1:02 am

[re=305641]MrsNateSilver[/re]: Damn. And here I stayed home and made chicken soup (I’m much more conservative about pig flu prevention than they are at HuffPo, what with the enemas and all). (I’m in Bedford.)

imissopus May 1, 2009 at 1:05 am

[re=305641]MrsNateSilver[/re]: Stomping ragheads and target shooting at the gun range, I’m guessing?

chascates May 1, 2009 at 1:12 am

I nominate Antonin ‘Nino’ Scalia for old age cancer. Followed of course by Clarence ‘Uncle Tom’ Clarence.

chascates May 1, 2009 at 1:12 am

[re=305654]chascates[/re]: I mean Clarence Thomas. Damn, this box wine ain’t bad!

Cicada May 1, 2009 at 1:16 am

[re=305654]chascates[/re]: Why just go for old age cancer when you can go for something gross like choad cancer? Or really painful, like foreskin cancer? Do those bastards really deserve anything as dignified as old age cancer?

Jukesgrrl May 1, 2009 at 1:18 am

People are always yelling for transparency. D’ya think Marjorie Overlund Rendell (Third Circuit Court of Appeals, not just Mrs. Eddie) is transparent enough?

Lord Growing May 1, 2009 at 1:19 am

“We in the GOP hope that the president does not abuse this rare opportunity by giving a lifetime appointment to a jurist who will rubber stamp his radical socialist agenda. Rather, we hope he proves that his promises of bipartisanship were not just so much empty campaign rhetoric, by nominating someone acceptable to mainstream America. We encourage him to nominate the grotesque, stinking corpse of Strom Thurmond.”

chascates May 1, 2009 at 1:23 am

[re=305658]Cicada[/re]: For Scalia I’ll agree to anal or dick-tip cancer.

Custerwolf May 1, 2009 at 1:41 am
PerhapsSo May 1, 2009 at 1:49 am

My campaign for Supreme Court begins now! Everyone, start calling the White House. I’m an excellent law-talking person. Really.

TruckNutz in every opinion!

Affirmed. Also.

PerhapsSo May 1, 2009 at 1:50 am

[re=305659]Jukesgrrl[/re]: And that would give Fast Eddie more free time for his… erm… extracurricular activities.

shortsshortsshorts May 1, 2009 at 1:57 am

[re=305667]Custerwolf[/re]: Did you know that Meghan fucking McCain linked that on her damned Twitter of death page? I bet you didn’t, which is why it makes it fun to call you out on that.

MEGHAN MCCAIN: Progressive/Conservative, Liberal/Fascist, Evangelical/Atheist.

But more than that:
Custerwolf: Citing ______ as a new medium.

Let’s blog about blogs that are blogging about sources that may have been taken from blogs. OH GOOD.

Custerwolf May 1, 2009 at 2:02 am

[re=305672]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: [cut to scene where I'm furiously scrubbing the shame and disgust from my body...slumping into the corner.....sobbing quietly, despondently....fade to black]

murality May 1, 2009 at 2:07 am

[re=305640]imissopus[/re]: starbursts=genital warts.
But c’mon Barry nominate Jerry Brown for associate justice! Supreme wackiness will ensue. First Monday raves, also.

Custerwolf May 1, 2009 at 2:07 am

[re=305672]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Did she happen to mention that when reading the gentleman’s fond account of his dog’s wrinkled scrotom it made her think fondly of her dear old grandpa – er, I mean dad?

shortsshortsshorts May 1, 2009 at 2:13 am

[re=305675]Custerwolf[/re]: That is when one must recount the wrinkles on the dog. One slow process, one testicle at a time.

ALRIGHT GOODNIGHT NOW WONKETTE.

WindbagCity May 1, 2009 at 2:13 am

I have a friend who calls Cass Sunstein, so absent any informed speculation, I’ll take that. Who’s with me? (BTW, who wants to bet Cass is already sick of the ball-and-chan-style jokes referenceing a “Problem From Hell” or the ol’ “Monster”…?)

trondant May 1, 2009 at 2:16 am

[re=305661]Lord Growing[/re]: Words as true today as they would have been forty years ago.

19kevin8 May 1, 2009 at 2:28 am

[re=305643]tunamelt[/re]: Oh, we can do wrestling in cole slaw… in a steel cage with long, sharp knives… to the death! Make it a 3-way.

Roberts v. Alito v. Thomas

Bearbloke May 1, 2009 at 2:59 am

So… socialist gay abortions for all?

hoosiermama May 1, 2009 at 3:23 am

MrsNateSilver: *sigh* it’s always the wingnut crazy ones…no offense to crazy moonbats who are good in bed. Smile with tongue sticking out!

Lionel Hutz Esq. May 1, 2009 at 3:29 am

Before we get snarked out, let us say good bye to the one true conservative at the Supreme Court, who believed in precedent and not making the law fit some grand right wing belief of what Thomas Jefferson would have done if we could hook electros to him and make his rotting corpse speak to us.

Sadly, despite this being the majority opinion on the Court, they have yet to rule that getting it on with your slaves is very Constitutional and a lot of fun.

Lionel Hutz Esq. May 1, 2009 at 3:34 am

What ever happens, let’s not forget that a Supreme Court Judgeship is a fucking valuable thing, you just don’t give it away for nothing.

Is Blago available?

hobospacejunkie May 1, 2009 at 3:37 am

I would rather count the wrinkles on my dogs balls than sit on a jury.

Not bad, but he missed a possessive apostrophe. Also gratuitous use of quotes around “justice,” our system of which he does not believe in. But he ends with sentiments I think we can all empathize with:

Get it through your thick skulls. Leave me the fuck alone.

I think I’ll ask to have that on my tombstone. If I weren’t going to be incinerated.

hoosiermama May 1, 2009 at 3:41 am

for rambone:

Amok Time fight scene

Which one’s Daschle?

Oh yeah, I went there!

Jukesgrrl May 1, 2009 at 3:56 am

[re=305670]PerhapsSo[/re]: And us, more fun stuff to read, since we have had so little since Bubba started the heart meds. (I don’t count Sen. Diaper. I’m not into the poo-poo scene.) I hold out hope that there will some regular-guy sexy-time from Todd Palin. I wouldn’t mind another tundra scandal and she so-o-o-o deserves it.

Johnny Zhivago May 1, 2009 at 6:19 am

Just two words: Hillary Clinton

Cape Clod May 1, 2009 at 6:54 am

I hope Barry appoints someone barely in their 30′s. Someone that the conservatives will look at and say to themselves, “Shit, that fucker is going to be there for 50 fucking years.”

smellyal8r May 1, 2009 at 7:26 am

[re=305697]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: Two more words: Bill Clinton.

Mr Blifil May 1, 2009 at 7:49 am

Whoever wins the next Project Runway: SCOTUS!

Come here a minute May 1, 2009 at 8:02 am

Who will be the first member of congress to propose a BIRTH CERTIFICATE requirement for the SCOTUS? We can’t have the half-breed muslin appointing his LUO CHIEF for CHIEF JUSTICE!!!1!1!1!!!

Mr Blifil May 1, 2009 at 8:12 am

“Once engaged but never married, Souter was once listed among the capital’s 10 “most eligible bachelors” but remained in that category of “confirmed bachelors.”"

The leather dungeon, hair salon, retinue of boy-toys, and “Gay Ocean Cruising” pamphlets found in his SCOTUS chamber were apparently not enough confirmation.

Vartan84 May 1, 2009 at 8:45 am

David Souter is totally leaving to take part in my/Wonkette’s new upcoming occasional blog series “All the Presidents’ Graves (and a few who weren’t!)”, SUMMER 2009! I can’t wait, everyone get excited, we need a grassroots movement for this!

Terry May 1, 2009 at 9:15 am

Barry needs to nominate Jennifer Granholm. She’d actually be a decent pick, but the fact that she was born in Canada would launch a thousand conspiracy theories. Part of some kind of secret Cannuck sleeper cell, no doubt.

Terry May 1, 2009 at 9:26 am

[re=305689]hobospacejunkie[/re]:

Ok, maybe I’m crazy, but I LIKE jury duty. I get paid to go decide things about other folks’ lives.

When I was living down South, I never made it past voire dire. Basically, one lawyer or the other would see that I’d been to college and send me back to the waiting room.

krustysfather May 1, 2009 at 9:49 am

Um… shouldn’t that be “labRATory?” Get it right, Wonkette!

hobospacejunkie May 1, 2009 at 10:01 am

[re=305734]Terry[/re]: You’re not crazy. It’s not the worst thing in the world. But saying you get paid is overstating it a bit. At least in Texas, where you get something like $5/hour.

I also never make it past the first round, where they discover my wife is an attorney.

forgracie May 1, 2009 at 10:06 am

[re=305624]NoWireHangers[/re]: Scalia is ass cancer.

Min May 1, 2009 at 10:32 am

Crap. I had ten bucks on Ginsburg.

Kos May 1, 2009 at 10:45 am

Begun this culture war has.

Capricatony May 1, 2009 at 11:21 am

Three words: Justice Ann Coulter.

PsycGirl May 1, 2009 at 11:43 am

I nominate Rahm Emanuel, because his dissenting opinions would be so much fun to read.

Lascauxcaveman May 1, 2009 at 12:13 pm

[re=305887]Capricatony[/re]: Heh. Love it!

TeddyS May 1, 2009 at 1:41 pm

Either of the Clintons, just to watch the Party of No detonate. Or Jeremiah Wright.

problemwithcaring May 1, 2009 at 1:48 pm

In the spirit of bipartisanship and gender equality, the POTUS will probably have to consider Harriet Mier’s again. I mean W. searched far and wide for another conservative women lawyer who was fit for the job and the closest he came was Sam Alito.

DustBowlBlues May 1, 2009 at 1:50 pm

[re=305734]Terry[/re]: Here in the home of Flaming Lips love, going to college doesn’t disqualify you for jury duty, as long as it was an unaccredited Bible College.

DustBowlBlues May 1, 2009 at 1:56 pm

Remember when the Repubthugs were trying to get their asswipe wingers through the senate and the Ds kept staging fake filibusters? And the Rs, led by Terry Shiavo hearthrob Bill Frist, threatened the “nukular” opting of deep-sixing the filibuster rule?

Will the Democrats ever grow a set of “hey, we won the fucking election” balls and put the Rs in their places?

BTW, Note to Arlen “what am I today” Specter: Orrin Hatch just got tricked into appearing on the socialist-terrorist-homo channel, MSNBC, and announces, “you’re On Notice. I want the fucking $10,000 I gave to your reelection campaign back, Bitch.”

I might have slightly glammed up his actual words.

TeddyS May 1, 2009 at 2:23 pm

As the idiot king bush said, “Elections, well, uh, heh, they have comisqwe.. consulme .. er, Elections have consequences!”

There must be a transgendered lawyer around somewhere that would like the job. Maybe somebody from ACORN.

vodkalady May 1, 2009 at 8:14 pm

Not your best work, Jim.

zhubajie May 2, 2009 at 6:29 am

Just for shits and giggles, put Blago or someone else wildly inappropriate on the court! Maybe some Muslim jurist. Repeat Roman Hruska’s defence of Harold Carswell, when Republifucks complain!

zhubajie May 2, 2009 at 6:41 am

[re=305687]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: Very available, I’m sure, but the president will have to pardon him first. Still, a conviction, time in jail, might make him very empathetic to those accused of something or other.

zhubajie May 2, 2009 at 6:44 am

[re=305687]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: Very available, I’m sure, but the president will have to pardon him first. Still, a conviction, time in jail, might make him very empathetic to those accused of something or other.[re=305929]PsycGirl[/re]:

zhubajie May 2, 2009 at 6:49 am

[re=305929]PsycGirl[/re]: Think how conflicted the wingnuts would be by a Jew, born in Israel, son of an Likudnik (and I think an Irgun member).

Zhu Bajie

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