There are a lot of tubes in the Internet and if you look hard enough you can probably find anything, but I haven’t found any Democratic bloggers predicting that Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE) is going to be dead in six months.
Sen. Mike Johanns was released Friday from an Arlington, Va., hospital after successful surgery on Tuesday.
Doctors removed the lower lobe of Johanns’ left lung after a suspicious spot was found. It was determined not to be cancerous.
For some reason, Republicans can’t show the same courtesy to Teddy Kennedy or Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I may disagree with Mike Johanns on policy but I don’t wish him ill-health and I have more respect than to offer Bill Frist-like remote diagnoses about his long-term prospects for recovery.
I’m sick of all the talk about Rush Limbaugh, so I don’t want to make a big deal about his remark that ‘before [the debate is] all over, it’ll be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care bill.’ Rush Limbaugh makes a living making incendiary and ugly remarks. I just want to make two points. First, this death-wish type of rhetoric isn’t limited to Rush Limbaugh as Sen. Jim Bunning made clear with his remarks about Justice Ginsburg.
During a 30-minute speech on Saturday at the Hardin County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner, Bunning said he supports conservative judges “and that’s going to be in place very shortly because Ruth Bader Ginsburg … has cancer.”
“Bad cancer. The kind that you don’t get better from,” he told a crowd of about 100 at the old State Theater.
“Even though she was operated on, usually, nine months is the longest that anybody would live after (being diagnosed) with pancreatic cancer,” he said.
Fortunately, the doctors say that they caught Ginsburg’s cancer while it is still in Stage One, which means her prospects are considerably better than Sen. Bunning’s remote diagnosis would indicate. Which leads to my second point. Why do Republicans engage in this type of behavior and why is it that Democrats don’t reciprocate?
Democrats generally fantasize about throwing (deserving) Republicans in jail, not seeing them die from cancer. We also tend to leave the medical decisions and diagnoses to the patients and their doctors. It has something to do with privacy and common decency.
“common decency”— NOT!
This is one your most beautiful post Boo. BRAVO!
In the near future, scientists will isolate the DNA defect that results in a lack of empathy. Then, babies will be screened to identify the most likely criminals/Republicans and they will be sent to special pre-K classes to modify their sociopathic tendancies.
the kind of dementia “that you don’t get better from”.
Republicans really lack in many areas-and this is one of them. They have no respect of any kind for privacy and they have very little-if any-common decency. They are strictly a “no class act.” And it really shows.
I suspect that Republicans experienced abusive childhoods which upbringing reduced or eliminated their ability to feel sympathy and compassion for the sufferings of other human beings. This is also why they seem to have such a perverse need for alcohol, drugs and unconventional sex. Until they get proper therapy, they will remain, I am afraid, damaged goods.
At the core of virtually all conservative positions is a very simple statement: “F** ’em!” So it should come as no surprise when word comes out that Senator Kennedy or Justice Ginsberg has cancer that the conservative response in some quarters is, “F* ’em.”
That’s who they are.
That’s what they do.
F
** ’em.
Ah yes, Preview is my friend…
I don’t want these scum-bags to die, I want them to have to live with the consequences of their actions. I sort of snarkily posted in the other comment that I thought Rendition was appropriate for Madidoff, but what is really appropriate is for him, and all guilty of being heartless to have to work at Mcdonalds to feed their families.