Sen. Bunning: Justice Ginsburg will be dead in nine months.
Sen. Bunning: Justice Ginsburg will be dead in nine months.
Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) declared over the weekend that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be dead within “nine months.” In the course of explaining his support for conservative judges to a crowd at the Hardin County Kentucky Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner, Bunning said that a fight over a new Supreme Court justice would start “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.
Bunning’s prediction may be a bit off, as Ginsburg’s doctors have found that “her cancer has not spread, a significant worry after finding a small tumor, which has turned out to be benign, located on the 75-year-old’s pancreas.” “All lymph nodes proved negative for cancer, and no metastasis was found,” her doctors said in a statement.
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More compassionate conservatism. This asswipe should’ve stuck to baseball.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:01 amIgnorant comments from an ignorant azz.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:04 amWhat goes through the minds of people like him — is there any thought process at all? Or is it all about their personal comforts?
Um…isn’t it customary to wait until death actually occurs before dancing in the end zone?
But at least Bunning has revealed what we’ve all suspected — no matter who Obama appoints to fill ANY vacant SCOTUS seat (Ginsburg’s or any other), the Republicans are going to do everything possible to block it. Unless, of course, Obama appoints Rush Limbaugh (of course, Limbaugh wouldn’t accept because the gig he now has is a lot more lucrative).
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:06 amI’m ashamed that there’s actually a picture out there of me shaking the hand of this jackass…
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:07 am“Bad character. The kind that you don’t get better from.”
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:07 amWhen did Jim Bunning become an oncologist? Sharing confidential patient information is against HIPAA. I guess it’s like stealing songs. Republicans know the law and do what they want anyway.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:08 amAnother confirmation that the Republican party and their lust for ultimate power is the most dangerous foe this Country has ever faced.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:08 amThis azzwhole is dancing on the 50 yard line before the coin toss. A completely worthless POS.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:11 amFrom the linked article…
Bunning, who only has about $150,000 in his campaign account, has been criticized because of his inability to raise money.
“I’m not only asking for your support, but if you have a $25 check somewhere, or whatever, you can send it, I’ll cash it,” he told the group.
(a crowd of about 100 at the old State Theater.)
I’m guessing his next crowd will be able to fit into a Volkswagen.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:13 amIt appears that Sen Bunning suffers from “hoof in mouth” disease. That along with “Old Stupid White Man” syndrome which has no known cure. Hope he has good heath care…
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:15 amBunning . . . another good example of why steroids, baseball and politics don’t mix. He’s following in Bill Frist’s footsteps . . . “remote diagnosis”. It was stupid when heart-surgeon Frist did it; it’s downright hilarious when baseball benchwarmer Bunning does it.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:19 amThis perhaps explains the get together of about 100 people…
“Hardin County (Kentucky) is a limited dry county, meaning that sale of alcohol in the county is prohibited except by the drink in restaurants seating at least 100 diners in the cities of Elizabethtown and Radcliff, and at the Pine Valley Golf Resort.”
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:20 amfrom Wikipedia…
Sen. Bunning: Justice Ginsburg will be dead in nine months.
– - The old Phillies pitcher delivers a high, hard one at Justice Ginsburg. Careful, Jimmy, she just may get up now and go yard on you.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:20 amthe umpire now walking out to the mound…
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:24 amThat was so cold! I hope Bunning retires within 9 months!
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:32 amWhat is it with Kentucky? Their Senators always seem to have foot-in-mouth disease.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:33 amI hope she has a long life! One of the reasons I voted for Obama was the Supreme Court. Roberts, Scalia, and Alito, are not my cup of tea!
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:33 amThe state has a massive population of backwards old people and their idiot progeny. They’ve got nothing better to do than vote for crappy legislators and pump out babies they have no means of feeding (all the while screaming about welfare queens).
What do you want?
(btw I am a KY resident)
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:35 amIt sounds like Bunning learned his medical craft by apprenticing with “Dr.” former-Sen. Bill Frist; they’re both pretty good at pronouncing unqualified medical misdiagnoses aren’t they? Oh, and as for the “nine months is the longest anyone lives with pancreatic cancer” screed, I have two words for you — Patrick Swayze — battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer since January 2008, which if my math is right is longer than 9 months…
Here’s some more free advice, “Dr.” Bunning — look up the meaning of the word benign, since that’s the actual diagnosis of Justice Ginsburg’s tumor that was officially released…
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:39 amYou stay classy, non-Dr. Bunning.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:43 amMankind is SO sick and tired of the GOP and conservatism. Can we PLEASE organize even more and wipe them from politics forever?
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:43 amOh and Bunning . . .wanna take bets that the next SCOTUS judge is mega-liberal?
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:44 amscytherius Says:
Meh, I’m pretty sure it will be a middle of the road to right-light appointee – all in the name of bipartisanship. Gag.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:50 amIf a Republican tells you it’s raining, keep your umbrella at home.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:51 amI’d be seething with outrage….. but by now – that’s not only typical of repugnicans, but EXPECTED.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:51 amThere’s a special place in Karmic Law for scumbags like him!!
Bunning, since you know so much about cancer, why not become an oncologist? Oh, wait, you’re too addled to do so.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:53 amThe American Taliban is the real cancer America suffers from.
Bunning, Cantor, Pence, Boner, DeMint, Sanford, Pawlenty, to name just a few, are the social disease that tends to spread like cancer among those too dim or unmotivated to find the truth.
Cancervatism should be irradiated with sunshine daily…
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:54 amCancervatism. That is a terrific word. Call up Webster’s, pronto!
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:56 amWow, since when did Jim Bunning, ex MLB pitcher, become such a prognostic oncologist?
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:57 amFirst, stateofthedivision brings up a valid point. What the Senator did is in violation of HIPPA. I, for instance, cannot discuss and/or divulge any information regarding my patients.
I would be severely fined, and could possibly lose my license.
I await patiently to when Senator Bunning receives the same punishment.
Secondly, he’s an idiot (and I’m ashamed he’s affiliated with my beloved Detroit Tigers). He many want to “google” the definition of “benign” and contrast it with “malignant”. Because, all of my education has taught me that “benign” usually is not equated with “9 months to live”.
Mucking foron!
My thoughts are with Justice Ginsburg.May she recover and prosper.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:07 amJeez, what’s Bunning gonna do if GOD grants Justice Ginzberg a MIRACLE and she lives??
I thought RWers believed in miracles . .
Bunning is salivating, it’s disgusting!!
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:08 amJim Bunning:
Good Pitcher
Bad Doctor
Worse Politician
When will the GOP stop recruiting absolute idiots for political positions?
I guess they need to recruit somewhere for talented republicans. One supposes that the mentally disturbed electorate can be a demographic that the GOP can dominate.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:12 amWell, Sen. Bunning, if Justice Ginsburg beats the odds and survives beyond your nine-month window, maybe you can have Ann Coulter slip some rat poison in her creme brulee.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:13 amSen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) declared over the weekend that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be dead within “nine months.”
A repug manifesting the sweet compassion of a ghoul?
Imagine my shock and awe.
Every time I think that the repukes have, you should excuse the expression, “bottomed out” ethically and/or morally, someone like Senator Bunns-sing slithers out from under the nearest rock.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:21 amMarie Says:
Ignorant comments from an ignorant azz.
What goes through the minds of people like him — is there any thought process at all? Or is it all about their personal comforts?
For shame, Marie.
Accusing rethugs of catering to personal comforts?
Are you DARING to assert that a RETHUG would place ANYTHING above common humanity, elementary compassion, and the good of the party? [The good of the electorate comes in a distant second, unless they're big donors to rethug coffers.]
Tch tch.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:26 amHeartless, crass, and STUPID.
These fools STILL don’t get that we have the internet.
The old media wouldn’t report their gross behavior. So they didn’t care what awful things they said to their people. It wouldn’t make the paper or evening news.
Now, everyone is a reporter. Now we get to know what asses they so easily make of themselves.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:26 amPoor Bunning — so giddy with excitement, he just can’t stop himself from saying moronic things.
Of the four “liberal” justices, three are well over 70 years of age, and Souter (the fourth) will turn 70 this year. Kennedy, the swing vote (even though he swings right more than he swings left) is also over 70.
Of the four “conservative” justices, Clarence Thomas is 60, and Alito and Roberts are both in their fifties. Only Scalia is over the 70 mark.
The Republicans were hoping that as the liberal justices retired or passed on, a Republican president would appoint conservatives in their place (and the last GOP president did just that), culminating in their dream of a 100% wingnut court. Their dreams were dashed with the election of Obama.
Therefore, their strategy has changed somewhat. They know that if SCOTUS has an opening, Obama will hardly appoint another Scalia or a Thomas. So they are going to do everything they can to block, discredit, or otherwise trash ANY Obama appointment (a tall order, considering they’re a minority). Unfilled vacancies created by departing liberal justices will still skew the court to the right. And their wet dream will be a court consisting ONLY of Thomas, Alito, and Roberts.
I would be willing to bet that they have ramped up their information gathering efforts on EVERY judge in the country who has an icicle’s chance in h*ll of being appointed, so their spin machine will be whirring and ready as soon as an appointment is made.
Bunning is apparently counting on that scenario to occur in less than a year, and can’t contain his glee.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:27 amMr. Philby Says
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:20 am
If he was a liberal he would have went ahead and wished death to her.
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Are you suggesting that liberals want Ginsburg to die, or is this just random blithering on your part?
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:29 amNevar Says:
(a crowd of about 100 at the old State Theater.)
I’m guessing his next crowd will be able to fit into a Volkswagen.
If you find that car, Nevar, call me. I’ll help you push it off the nearest cliff, thereby transforming live toxic waste into mulch.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:30 amWell, you have no proof of that, just your twisted cartoon idea of “liberals” to inform you. And, as I pointed out above, the only public figure I’m aware of who has wished death on a Justice is Ann Coulter. Hardly a liberal, although if you guys are willing to call Bush a liberal there’s not much stopping you from claiming Trannie Annie is one too.
Besides, why would a liberal wish death to a left-leaning Justice of the Supreme Court? Try making some sense next time.
(But I’m willing to bet that if a liberal did wish death on a political rival, he would have used proper grammar when he did so.)
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:30 amcoskibum Says:
Hope he has good heath care…
I, however, hope he gets EXACTLY the same access to health care as he and cohorts wish to inflict upon millions in the US: none.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:32 amI don’t know. Maybe we should have Bill Frist diagnose Ginsburg from watching a videotape of her.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:33 amthe brown acid Says:
(btw I am a KY resident)
I feel your pain, brown: for 20 years, I was a TN resident, with frequent trips to conferences in KY; on-and-off for a couple of decades, I was also a TX resident. Those states have some wonderful people. They have some gawdawful politicians.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:36 amTypical Repub ghoul. “Party of Life,” my lily white ass.
I have a friend who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 16 years ago, and he’s still alive.
Kick ass, Justice Ginsburg!
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:36 amYou mean like all the psycho right-wingers who are chortling over Ted Kennedy’s brain tumor?
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:36 amscytherius Says:
Mankind is SO sick and tired of the GOP and conservatism. Can we PLEASE organize even more and wipe them from politics forever?
The operative word, of course, being “wipe.” Their cheneys and their mouths are largely interchangeable.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:37 amI’m a little surprised that our Soviet-agent friend Mr. Philby hasn’t claimed this thread an instance of “Bunning Derangement Syndrome™”.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:39 amPurple State Says:
Cancervatism. That is a terrific word. Call up Webster’s, pronto!
Nice catch!
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:39 amBunning should’ve stuck with throwing curveballs.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:40 amHe and Frist should start a remote viewing diagnostic center for the criminally insane.
Any nominations by Obama to SCOTUS need to be uber-liberals. Let the Rethuglic party filibuster, they threatened to use the nuclear option, Let Obama actually USE it.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:40 amMr. Philby Says:
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If he was a liberal he would have went ahead and wished death to her.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:20 am
mAnn Coulter was a “Liberal” when , shitstain ?
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:40 amMr. Philby Says:
If he was a liberal he would have went ahead and wished death to her
I’m a liberal, and I haven’t “went ahead” and wished death to YOU and your ilk.
I’ve just “went ahead” and wished karmic Ex-lax to the logical, intellectual, humane, and ethical constipation from which you and most of your ilk so obviously suffer.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:44 amGreat pitcher. Dumb senator. From Kentucky. Figures…
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February 23rd, 2009 at 11:46 amWord is, officials in Kentucky prefer this psychopath decline to run for another term. He’s ranked one of the least effective senators, and could lose out to a democrat.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:51 amZooey Says:
Congrats, Zooey, The Zoo got a mention on C&L’s Mike’s Blog Roundup.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:56 amThanks, barfly. Isn’t that cool? :-)
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:08 pmWingnuts just can’t help long distance practicing of . Terry Schiavo was just one example apparently
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:12 pmmedicine
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:12 pmPriceless. Canservatism as practiced by cancervatives. Can we all steal this?
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:22 pmThere are none so blind as he who will not see.
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:30 pmOl’ Jim Bunning’s a more talented Doctor than Bill Frist if he can make that diagnosis.
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:32 pmWow, Mr. Pillsbury, that’s some kind of sensitive. Are you sure you’re not suffering from PTSD? I know the election was hard on you guys, but the symptoms you’re experiencing are treatable. The first step is to acknowledge you have a problem.
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:36 pm“Even though she was operated on, usually, nine months is the longest that anybody would live after (being diagnosed) with pancreatic cancer,” he said.
This is wrong. I know someone about 82 years old who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer almost two years ago and is still living. The doctors usually don’t give someone with it long but it is possible.
Bunning is way out of line with his comments. Why did he feel the need to chime in? Bunning’s dirty open secret is that he has dementia.
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:38 pmand sterwarjt…
Patrick Swayze was diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer in January of 2008. That was over 12 months ago. So….
All this goes to show is that Senators should not be allowed to diagnose medical issues since they nothing about what they talk about. Just like Bill Frist (even though he is a doctor and should know better) diagnosing Terri Sciavo by video tape, these guys need to leave medical decisions to the doctors that do know what they are talking about…
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:50 pmThere are none so dumb as he who will not think.
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:50 pmMr. Philby Says:
“You mean like all the psycho right-wingers who are chortling over Ted Kennedy’s brain tumor?”
I never saw any of that, but, I did see way too many death wishes for the great Tony Snow. It gets no worse.
They were there. But let’s point out that chortling over anyone’s cancer diagnosis is bad taste. Let’s hope that Bunning didn’t make any jokes about Judge Ginsberg’s condition.
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:51 pmBunning is my vote for RePUG Cryptkeeper!
And I hope that Judge Ginsberg does well in the future.
And I hope that Bunning has a Philby-sized-baseball-shaped sitting in his rectum!
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:02 pmJeez Dr. Matt, thanks for taking one for the team by going to freerepublic, but now you will have to discard your keyboard, as you will find that the shift key no longer works, and most of the other keys are scrambled, making it impossible to spell correctly.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:21 pmDr. Matt, that’s an element that the wingers always conveniently leave out when they accuse us of being foul-mouthed and uncivil; TP deletes very few comments, and allows crazed wingnut troll to litter the threads.
pretty easy to keep up the appearance of decorum when you delete more than half of your comments.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:43 pmpretty easy to keep up the appearance of decorum when you delete more than half of your comments.
If the above is an example of what they do print, I’d hate to see what they don’t.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:49 pmMy God, it’s another Bill Frist. This man can diagnose from a distance too. And he’s no doctor. Then again Frist wasn’t much of one either. Or maybe he got his information from the right wing psychic Fred Barnes.
It’s nice of him to give out his opinion so readily. I am sure Ms.Ginsburg will relish the idea of reading about her demise. I mean just in case the doctor wanted her to have some hope. Now she has it from this Republican horses ass that not only are her days numbered, but now she knows how many days she has.
Gosh these Republicans love death. One way or another they relish it. Just as long as it wasn’t one of theirs.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:04 pmThese Republican fools should really get educated and stop listening to Porlulus. If the tumor was benign, then it wasn’t cancer. Duh…
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:16 pmDid they say the meeting was in Hardin county KY? Geez, that’s WAY out in the country; I thought prognosticatin’ down there might get you a visit from the guys in the white sheets.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:25 pmLong live Ginsburg!
So, God die and put this Bozo Bunning in charge of mortality?
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:28 pmNever build your “house” on other peoples’ graves…
Mr. Philby Says:
If he was a liberal he would have went ahead and wished death to her.
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You are a liar. You are a fool. You are a punk and I scrape things off my shoe way smarter than you will ever be.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:32 pmMr. Philby Says:
I never saw any of that, but, I did see way too many death wishes for the great Tony Snow. It gets no worse.
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I doubt that. You are a liar and a fool and just make things up so while possible I wont take your word for it. I was at Media Matters at the time and while a couple of tasteless things were said the vast majority of comments about the weasel were in sympathy. I think you are projecting again after all it was COULTER who said a sitting Supreme Court justice should be poisoned. What an ignorant loaf you are.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:34 pmHas it been long enough we can start making Tony Snow jokes?
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:43 pm“the great tony snow”?
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February 23rd, 2009 at 2:51 pmPet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.
-Tony Snow
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I knew Tony Snew, I loved Tony Snew.
- Jim Bunning
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February 23rd, 2009 at 2:57 pmWatch Bunning bring back the nuclear option.
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:10 pmmr. p is gone.
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February 23rd, 2009 at 3:14 pmHow great that is telling that someone gonna die in 9 months, are you a doctor ?
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:25 pmVery observant statement. What goes around, comes around. A wise person that wishes death on another should be careful. If Bunning’s wish is not fulfilled as he stated, then it will come back to him. Words don’t go away.
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:55 pmMaybe Sen. Bunning will be dead in nine months.
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:19 pmI think it all has been said.
I will add this is another classic example of how the republicians are aggressively striving to self destruct.
February 24th, 2009 at 4:39 am