• February 12, 2012

Sonia Sotomayor is so wacky that after breaking her ankle, she made a flight to Washington D.C. and visited the White House before going to the hospital. Why was Barack Obama unable to heal her? [YouTube]

{ 58 comments }

SendLawyersGunsAndMoney June 8, 2009 at 5:50 pm

Very crafty, a ploy to play on the support of the Hispanic handicap voters. What a racist move.

jagorev June 8, 2009 at 5:51 pm

What if this makes her biased for universal government takeover of healthcare? Can you even imagine how much it would suck if your doctor had to check with the supreme court before they could give you life saving medication?

donner_froh June 8, 2009 at 5:53 pm

Rush just said on his show that his followers should support Sonia as long as she gives him her unused Codeine, OxyContin, Percocet and Vicodin that she got at the hospital.

drrty martini June 8, 2009 at 5:53 pm

BECAUSE OBAMA waS 2 bizzy sightseeing in PARIS. I am NOT a NAIL!

TeddyS June 8, 2009 at 5:53 pm

She is limping because it hurts to kick the living shit out of the entire Republican Party.

Scarab June 8, 2009 at 5:56 pm

Mike Steele June 8, 2009 at 5:59 pm

She was trying to stomp a cucaracha. It was a brown cucaracha, so she is racist.

Bronkers June 8, 2009 at 6:01 pm

[re=334398]SendLawyersGunsAndMoney[/re]: In this economy, we just need the munniez – see the bad news here (no news to those in the practice): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/nyregion/07law.html?_r=1

Lucky Judge Sotomayor has gubmint health insurance; wonder how long it took to get examined at an ER, get the scrip for the crutches and then fill said scrip.

Snark aside, I feel my sister Portia’s pain, being a veteran sprainer of my ankles on a regular, klutzy basis.

But, hmmm, if the laying on of Hopey’s hands could… uh… heal, I’d be engaged in a bout of trip ‘n’ falls in front of The White House….

Scarab June 8, 2009 at 6:02 pm

~ insert lame attempt at humor ~

SayItWithWookies June 8, 2009 at 6:02 pm

Oh, that little broken ankle? It’s nothing a little powdered baby skull worn in a bag around the neck can’t handle.

Pat Pending June 8, 2009 at 6:03 pm

wow, a woman, a Latina, AND a cripple all in one? If only she could become a Jew and a lesbian we’d have the full set!

Lionel Hutz Esq. June 8, 2009 at 6:03 pm

This is clearly just a sham. There is no way that TSA would let a brown skin person through security with crutches clearly hiding her prayer rug and explosives.

lmj June 8, 2009 at 6:06 pm

Wow. Just. Wow. Look at that spunk, look at that moxie.

This also proves that God does exist (nyah nyah to all you athiest libsocialists out there) God is punking and pwning all wingnuts as soon as they speak. Did Newt not just deem Sotomayor a ‘Whinoceris’?

Yes, Newt did, as per an (infallible) Wonkette post earlier today.

She is no ‘Whinoceris’.

God works in mysterious ways.

charlesdegoal June 8, 2009 at 6:13 pm

She was hurt by gunmen firing at a mosque? At La Guardia? What’s going on?

Accordion-o-rama June 8, 2009 at 6:15 pm

[re=334416]SayItWithWookies[/re]: I was going so suggest a fetus smoothie.

azw88 June 8, 2009 at 6:30 pm

Now she has teh sypmathies for cripples. Lord look out if the ADA gets challenged!

Between her being a cripple, Ginsberg having cancer, Stevens being seriously old, and Thomas and Scalia being cranky MoFos, this would be a GREAT time to be an intern for SCOTUS!!

Bronkers June 8, 2009 at 6:33 pm

Just took a closer look at the video; aren’t those crutches WAY too short for her? And she’s itty-bity. The padded armrests are supposed to be just under the armpit, though not resting, right? (Been a lotta years since I used crutches, and I’m surely jinxing myself now….) Did she get the unadjustables/whatever’s available equipment?

evan7257 June 8, 2009 at 6:35 pm

Now she’s going to need 60 senators to sign her cast before she can get it off

contog June 8, 2009 at 6:36 pm

drunk wound? i think very possible. remember what rosen said!

rereridiculous June 8, 2009 at 6:42 pm

[re=334415]Scarab[/re]: That’s one of the most racist things I’ve ever read!

Holding Out for a Hero June 8, 2009 at 6:43 pm

[re=334414]Bronkers[/re]: But, hmmm, if the laying on of Hopey’s hands could… uh… heal, I’d be engaged in a bout of trip ‘n’ falls in front of The White House….

Bad, very bad. I want you to go to your room and think about what you’ve done or what Barry would do to comfort you…

Um…topic…she’s just faking the injury in order to smuggle the crutches into her confirmation hearing where she will show Chuckles Grassley just who is a hammer and who is a nail…

Bronkers June 8, 2009 at 6:45 pm

[re=334450]evan7257[/re]: WIN.

[re=334445]azw88[/re]: Interning would be attractive only if you’re also proficient in CPR and dialing 911 for immediate medical intervention. I’m thinking Harvard MEDICAL School rather than Harvard Law might be the intern employment ‘Open Sesame’ for the new Court.

Min June 8, 2009 at 6:45 pm

This is a bit extreme. I honestly believe the President would have given her an autograph, if she had just asked nicely.

Bronkers June 8, 2009 at 6:46 pm

[re=334456]Holding Out for a Hero[/re]: Did you need to give me a hot flash when I still have work to do here at the office, and billable, yet?

Holding Out for a Hero June 8, 2009 at 6:53 pm

[re=334460]Bronkers[/re]: Then get off of Wonkette and get to work missy or mister (said in stern Mother voice)

Um..topic again…perhaps she means to take one of those crutches and break it off in Newt’s ass…

mollymcguire June 8, 2009 at 7:00 pm

[re=334418]Pat Pending[/re]: The Legacy of James Watt fulfilled.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,926267,00.html

Mad Farmer Manifest June 8, 2009 at 7:02 pm

Breaks ankle, doesn’t go to hospital as she goes about her business. Jebus Christmas, she’s a cyborg from the future. Run, Newt! She’s here for you!

Hopey dont play that game June 8, 2009 at 7:12 pm

She has crutches which is similar to the Spanish word “cruces” which means crosses so she is obviously an Atheist, abortion-loving, pedophile.

ioksotot23 June 8, 2009 at 7:19 pm

Got to admit, after googling her princeton yearbook pic, she was pretty cute… and if I was not six years old in 1976 I might’ve….(not a knock out or anything but hey…)

Don Juanquete June 8, 2009 at 7:24 pm

“fractured ankle” = fractious anger = fascist acorn!

MGBYG June 8, 2009 at 8:07 pm

[re=334405]donner_froh[/re]: Hmmm, Percocet, OxyContin, and Vicodin…and I though POV stood for something completely different.

Did she fracture her ankle while firing on the mosque or after? (Man, I hate the kyron.)

Country Club Jihadi June 8, 2009 at 8:10 pm

Wondering if she is wearing a garter belt and one stocking, or if she cut the other leg off a pair of panty hose and if it is rolling up her thigh and driving her fucking insane all day. Also, she should meet the dude who got gauged in the balls by a deer and went to work before going to the hospital. Could be a DCHarmony.com couple in the making.

hobospacejunkie June 8, 2009 at 8:55 pm

All hail Princess Maria Sotomayor! Damn, breaking an ankle is painful enough, ouch. Walking on crutches sucks bitter, bitter donkey balls, even if you’re in decent physical shape. Which our princess (no offense meant) probably is not. Last time I did this I stayed home from work for six weeks just to avoid being on crutches the whole time. Of course I am not made of the sterner stuff that our next SCJOTUS Princess Maria is made of. She probably didn’t take any of the painkillers, either, until all her meetings were out. She is indeed more than a match for the pansy senate republicans.

Joehoya June 8, 2009 at 9:05 pm

Does the Capitol Police have a maximum allowable FUPA size?

the problem child June 8, 2009 at 9:06 pm

Empathy fail? You you really want a SCOTUS who doesn’t feel her own pain feeling yours?

DoctorCulturae June 8, 2009 at 9:09 pm

This will give senators an opportunity for faux empathy, and corresponding outright double-edged, passive aggressive, meanness.

My fantasy is she slips into a Bronz accent, pulls a switchblade, saying “Doan mess wit mee mudderfuukah, Ai cut joo!

KilgoreTrout_XL June 8, 2009 at 9:12 pm

You know, John McCain kinda looks like Steve Martin in that bullshit-healer-in-a-tent-in-fucking-Nebraska-maybe-who-cares-surrounded-by-corn-at-least POS movie. I forget the title.

What I’m saying is, this is a chance for big political points for the maverick, as long as he remembers not to call her a cunt or wear a sombrero to the meeting.

WadISay June 8, 2009 at 9:22 pm

If she had Hillary Clinton’s ankles, we’d be talking about the broken floor in the airport.

smellyal8r June 8, 2009 at 9:54 pm

wwi[re=334407]drrty martini[/re]: WIN. HIlarious!
[re=334515]KilgoreTrout_XL[/re]: And McCain should also have on the multicolored serape with that sombrero to formally welcome her to the Senate. “Bone-us Day-es Senior-ita”…

ioksotot23 June 8, 2009 at 10:01 pm

[re=334517]WadISay[/re]: cankles rule, I submit to our support hose overlords

lulzmonger June 8, 2009 at 10:04 pm

PROTIP for Newt: if she asks if your name is Sarah Conner, say no.

Mr Blifil June 8, 2009 at 10:51 pm

Will she now have to recuse herself from Obama vs. Pfizer?

Don Juanquete June 8, 2009 at 11:05 pm

So So “Feels No Human Pain” … then her pain is…vegetable? animal? robot?

Jsab June 8, 2009 at 11:11 pm

ha what a trooper!

shortsshortsshorts June 8, 2009 at 11:18 pm

Can you think of anything more racist than a Latino with an injury? What if a white person had been in her position? I bet the liberal MSM would have seen that person as weak. BUT NOT WITH THIS STATE RUN MSM. They will prop up this Sotomayor to be not only injured, but intelligent. The superior race of White, Christian gay men should not stand for this.

Mr Blifil June 8, 2009 at 11:19 pm

This is why one should never wear fuck-me pumps to a job interview.

obfuscator June 8, 2009 at 11:22 pm

this reminded me of the time a couple of years ago when robert bork injured himself at the yale club. he was walking up some steps to the dais and fell… and then he sued the yale club, which is totes in line with his constitutional originalist philosophy. tort reform etc. assmunch.

hoosiermama June 8, 2009 at 11:40 pm

Holding Out for a Hero: You just reminded me that they need a folding chair or two in addition to the crutches at the confirmation hearings, and a referee who will easily be distracted. DEATH MATCH!!!!

azw88 June 9, 2009 at 12:25 am

[re=334547]Mr Blifil[/re]: Or at least not at the airport. Those moving walkways can be a real bitch in those!

bago June 9, 2009 at 12:46 am

Plsnt conv. w sotomyr. 1 hr mtg. Look frwd 2 hrg and mre details abt recrd.

gurukalehuru June 9, 2009 at 1:05 am

New York to D.C. with a broken ankle – what a pussy! It’s not exactly Houston to Wasilla with a screaming retarded baby pressing against your vagina, now, is it?

Bruno June 9, 2009 at 2:59 am

That Police Lady looks like the woman from Police Academy with the really meak voice.

BobLoblawLawBlog June 9, 2009 at 7:44 am

It takes a lot to fell a dusthead from down by Yankee Stadium in the South Bronx. That neighborhood is full of empathetic people who feel no pain of their own.

snoidoid June 9, 2009 at 10:08 am

[re=334418]Pat Pending[/re]: My wife already thinks she is a lesbian.

S.Luggo June 9, 2009 at 11:24 am

Newt knows that this injury will be difficult for Soto. With a broken ankle you can’t use a prayer rug, kick a white fireman down the stairs or, as a womanalist, use the potty without peeing all over your leg.

McGomer June 9, 2009 at 1:39 pm

A wise Latina gathers no moss.

zenferret June 9, 2009 at 2:37 pm

[re=334547]Mr Blifil[/re]: Even if you’re a guy?

Neilist June 9, 2009 at 6:16 pm

That gal in the yellow blouse and blue open jacket to Her Honor’s right has that classic “United-States-Secret-Service-You-Even-Cough-And-I’ll-Shoot-Three-More-Holes-In-Your-Nose” look.

Just sayin’ you might want to keep your hands out in the open.

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