Bunning: Ginsburg will be dead in nine months

[kskiska]

Source: Politico

Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.), already in political trouble for 2010, didn’t help matters any over the weekend.

At a Lincoln Day Dinner speech over the weekend, Bunning predicted that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would likely be dead from pancreatic cancer in nine months, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.

The paper reports that Bunning reiterated his support of conservative judges, saying “that’s going to be in place very shortly because Ruth Bader Ginsburg…has cancer.”

“Bad cancer. The kind you don’t get better from,” Bunning went on. “Even though she was operated on, usually nine months is the longest that anybody would live after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.”

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090222/pl_politico/29743;_ylt=ArlwIryCpNDrEyfvLvZQssSyFz4D

[wake.up.america]

1. Bunning seem like a warm caring dude.

[Omnibus]

15. He should have taken a few more line drives to the head.

n/t

[PatrynXX]

18. Tell that to Patrick Swayze!!

fucking little prick. Hope he burns in hell.

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

2. Fuck him. nt

[Joe Bacon]

28. Bunning has been brain dead for years.

:evilgrin:

[Mz Pip]

3. Jeez, what a creep.

Just when you think some GOPer can't sink any lower, can't say anything more tactless, one of them does.

Is stupid and classless a prerequisite for winning a Senate seat for the GOP?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. The Attila the Hun Charm School graduates just keep on giving, don't they??? n/t

:wtf:

:wtf:

:wtf:

:wtf:

[JeffR]

5. And yet, in a sort of Cosmic Joke perpetrated by the Universal Mind

graceless idiots like Bunning just seem to live forever.

[The Wizard]

38. Bunning is dead;

just too stupid to lay down.

[krispos42]

47. Naw...

... it just SEEMS that way.


<ring> <ring> <ring> "Hello, Senator Bunning's office."

"Hi there, I was wondering if it was true that Senator Bunning died recently."

"No, he's fine, sir."

"Ah, okay. Never mind then. Sorry to bother you." <click>



<ring> <ring> <ring> "Hello, Senator Bunning's office."

"Hi there, I was wondering if the Senator was still alive."

<pause> "He hasn't died in the past five minutes, sir."

"Only five minutes? It felt longer than that. Sorry to bother you again." <click>


<ring> <ring> <ring> "Hello, Senator Bunning's office."

"Still alive?"

"Yes!"

"'Kay." <click>


<ring> <ring> <ring> "Hello, Senator Bunning's office."

"Alive?"

"Yes!" <click>



<ring> <ring> <ring> "Hello, Senator Bunning's office."

"Alive?"

<click>



<ring> <ring> <ring> "HE'S STILL ALIVE!!!"

<click>

[lostnotforgotten]

6. My Dad Survived 5 Years After Diagnosis

eom

[Aristus]

7. My dad is in his 14th month of recovery from pancreatic cancer.

Good for your dad. Hope there are many more years to come...

[lostnotforgotten]

9. It Is The Toughest Cancer For Older Folks - Keep the Faith

eom

[DFW]

33. It killed my dad at age 78.

He survived 11 months, or, at least, he would have if Jim Bunning hadn't declared it impossible.

[livetohike]

61. It killed my Dad at age 80

He only lived three weeks after his diagnosis. My paternal grandfather also died from pancreatic cancer at age 79.

[DFW]

69. Sounds like you had better keep a close watch on things, too.

As should I.

[livetohike]

70. Right after my Dad died, I signed up with Johns Hopkins

University in their pancreatic cancer study department. Here is a link, if you're interested:

http://www.path.jhu.edu/pancreas/NFPTR/

[DFW]

71. That's where my dad was treated!

Keith Lillemoe was his surgeon. He might still be around.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

8. Too bad it doesn't work this way,

and I'm not the one to advance such a cosmic plot, but, guess what I'd most enjoy hearing about the state of Jim Bunning's health?

[Posteritatis]

62. Meh, he's already got metastasized cancer of the soul (nt)

[fujiyama]

10. That guy is one deranged fuck

People say he suffers from dementia or is senile. God, I'd love to see him taken out in 2010. Even his own caucus doesn't really support him. When asked about whether he's running, I think Cornyn said he doesn't know, even though Bunning had said he was. He hasn't raised much money and I think he'll have a tough primary challenger. It'll be a tough seat to take, but we have a better chance of taking Bunning down in an off year, as opposed to a presidential election year.

What a crazy son of a bitch. And what a disgusting, fucked up thing to say.

[DeepBlueC]

11. My 84 year old godmother still okay 3 years later

I was devastated when I heard. The doctor had told her that her chances were 50/50 (I thought that was encouragement more than honest assessment) but she blithely told everyone "Oh I'll be okay by next spring." She's usually more pessimistic about things. But she was okay. It took her another six months to get her strength back after the chemo, but she is alive and kicking.

[Warpy]

12. Since Stevens lost his seat, Bunning is now

Inhofe's nearest competition for "Dumberest Senator"

He's senile and getting worse, not that he was ever an intellectual giant in the first place.

His gleeful cackling over a cancer diagnosis might make more sense had he realized his party got kicked out of the White House and lacks a majority in Congress and so he won't have anything to say about any replacement USSC justice for at least the next two years.

Bunning is one of the shining examples of why I think these old boys need cognitive evaluations every election and disqualification if they fail.

[The Wizard]

39. He was evaluated in the last election

The people have decided they only need 1.5 senators.

[tularetom]

13. Miserable low life piece of shit

Could he possibly have said anything creepier? I don't wish death on him or anyone else, because we're all going to die eventually. What I do wish is that he dies of something humiliating and painful that will leave him fully aware of his condition as people ridicule him for shitting himself in public or walking around lost and naked with his tiny dick hanging out.

[burrowowl]

14. I hope he gets soundly defeated in 2010

by an intelligent Democrat.
What a nasty person!

[dkf]

16. The man is a crass a-hole but everyone else has been

pussyfooting around the situation.

News articles like this get printed because he is saying what others are thinking or worrying about.

[Judi Lynn]

46. Anyone who thinks or worries about this should keep it to himself. It's not a game.

Most of us take life so seriously we're not concerned in babbling about things this serious like absolute idiots.

Death is a problem for EVERYONE. Gibbering about it won't make you feel better, and it's disrespectful to people who are possibly at a lonely place in their own lives.

[dkf]

48. You think this wasn't big news to the White House?

I bet they talked about it and are making contingency plans if they hadn't done that ages ago.

[Judi Lynn]

49. They would not be involved in idly yammering about it publicly, would they?

There are some among us who don't grasp the simplest truths about growing up, developing a social sense of responsibility toward others and ourselves.

This isn't a topic to yammer about publicly. If you are overwhelmed with the driving need to discuss someone's critically important health, have the decency to be low key about it, why not?

It's not rocket science.

[dkf]

52. So your beef is just that they don't do it anywhere near a reporter?

aka publicly?

I'm just saying if we think its not being discussed, we are deluded.

[Judi Lynn]

53. I'm not following your train of thought. It's one thing for them to discuss it,

among themselves, with concern for her well being, and future, and it's another thing for fools to trumpet any idle brain movement they've got concerning Justice Ginsberg's health to the entire world.

It's not clear what kind of point you're trying to share.

Senator Bunning has NO business shooting off his filthy stupid mouth about this to any press. If he wants to gossip about Justice Ginsberg's health, he needs, absolutely, to do it on his own dime, and stop using her life as entertainment.

[dkf]

55. Its kind of amazing how when this is Steve Jobs, its fraud to not

disclose his possible health problems, but when its a Supreme Court Justice, no one talks about it publicly.

I still think the press used this speech because they wanted to talk about Justice Ginsberg's health situation. And pancreatic cancer is bad. I should know, it runs in my family.

[Judi Lynn]

56. I'm not interested in dragging in other people, extending the conversation.

I have loved ones who've died already of this, and I am genetically disposed, as well, apparently, and there's never been any attraction among anyone I would ever associate with to babble on about other people's health like a total fool.

Using mass media to get one's filthy, pointless points across to huge numbers of people is contemptible. Crude, uncivilized behavior can never be appropriate.

I don't give a #### about Steve Jobs. What ON EARTH does he have to do with this "conversation?"

Read some of the other posts. People tend to agree it's a totally stupid, offensive, selfish, barbaric thing for Bunning to do, just like all of his other actions.

Why do you persist in going on and on about this? There's a clear right, and a definite wrong here.

[Jack Rabbit]

17. Well, he's still the best Senator ever to have pitched two no-hitters in the major leagues

You have to admit that he is.

[Piewhacket]

19. Its just political crap...

the 'end of the world' scam, give him your money, sit in the bunker
and wait (while he takes the rear exit and skurries quietly out of town
with the loot). So long suckah!

Ginsburg's cancer was serious, but was caught early, limited, and operable.
The most serious kinds are not operable and/or have spread, and are basically a
matter of time, like a year or less after acute symptoms. That wasn't
Ginsburg's situation as I recall it reported.

so he's an idiot talking to idiots.
But the good news is, it ain't taking nine months to figure that out.

[Jim Sagle]

20. That's not hardball, that's beanball.

[Hawkeye-X]

21. Looks like Bunning has been hit on the head with baseballs WAY too often..

He needs to resign in disgrace.

Advocating death to an U.S. Supreme Court justice is a big NO NO.

Hawkeye-X

[Jamastiene]

22. What a fucking ashole.

I see when they gave out class, he didn't get any.

[Liberty Belle]

23. He's a jackass. But this is a bad, bad form of cancer.

My grandfather and uncle both died of it. So did my daughter's ballet coach, and also an election activist who used to post here on DU.

I hope that Justice Ginsburg will be one of the fortunate few who catch this condition early enough to give her more good years on the bench.

[JDPriestly]

24. It depends. Pancreatic cancer is often very aggressive, and

life expectancy for those who have is then short. But we have a friend who had a malignant tumor removed from the top of the pancreas several years ago. He is doing very well, thank you.

[Ozymanithrax]

25. Only a Republican...

Would use the possible painful and terrible death of a Supreme Court Justice as part of a pitch for money.

[mackerel]

26. Wonder what he says about Kennedy?

[jbfam4]

27. more info here.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090222/NEWS01/902230303&s=d&page=3#pluckcomments

Cornyn must be looking at the handwriting on the wall regarding Bunning.

[MrsBrady]

29. these people just have no bottom...

they just sink lower and lower

[leftyladyfrommo]

31. Boy, that's true. Kind of like our stock market. n/t

Tasteless, tacky, crude, heartless.

[get the red out]

30. He makes no sense

And if somehow the old coot were correct, I am thinking that we will still have a Democratic President that won't be appointing whatever monster Bunning would approve of to the Supreme Court?

That idiot must have taken way too many line drives to the head.

Run again Bunning, Kentucky has a whole stable of good Democrats that are itching to run against you. And if YOU bite it in 9 months, take comfort that we have a Democratic Governor who would do a very good job at replacing you!

[Optical.Catalyst]

32. Whistling past the graveyard there Mr. Bunning?

What goes around, comes around.

[GOPNotForMe]

34. Stay classy, Jimmy.

[Roland99]

35. This just in: Bunning's brain pronounced dead nine months ago.

[mwb970]

36. Let them keep on talking like this. All of them.

The word is out. The jig is up. Finally, finally, the public is realizing that 95% of republicans are mean-spirited, crazy pieces of crap, with this clown as one of their finest! It's a case of drip, drip, drip. Few will abandon the wingnuts over one little story like this. But as the examples of grotesque right-wing insensitivity and just bald-faced idiocy pile up and up and up, their fortunes will continue to sink.

I think 2010 is the year that we finally get rid of enough republicans to really make a difference in our governance. Of course it's frustrating that they are still apparently in charge, as a minority that has lost two landslide elections in a row. But take cheer. The third time is the charm!

[Rebubula]

37. What a jerk

Even if this is true...this shows little class or respect for someone that has devoted her life to the service of our country.

Go away, Senator...

[Historic NY]

40. amazingly stupid isn't he...using an illness as a fund raising tact..

"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.

[Doctor_J]

41. The only Repukes left are the evil ones

The few remaining repukes are sick, evil people who have no business running the country

[melm00se]

42. Pancreatic Cancer

has very high mortality rate. his comment on the 9 month figure, while certainly callous, is statistically accurate:

http://www.pancreaticcancertreatment.net/pancreatic-cancer-life-expectancy.html

Once a person has been diagnosed with the condition, general pancreatic life expectancy is only 5 to 8 months, though 20 percent of pancreatic sufferers will live at least 1 year. The pancreatic cancer life expectancy for sufferers living over 5 years is only 5 percent.

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/280605-overview

The relative 1-year survival is only 24%, and the overall 5-year survival rate for this disease is less than 5%. This number has not changed significantly over the years. A 5-year survival in pancreatic cancer is no guarantee of cure; patients who survive for 5 years after successful surgery may still die of recurrent disease years after the 5-year survival point. The occasional patient with metastatic disease or locally advanced disease who survives beyond 2-3 years may die of complications of local spread, such as bleeding esophageal varices.

Pancreatic carcinoma is unfortunately usually a fatal disease. The collective median survival time of all patients is 4-6 months. Most patients eventually succumb to the consequences of local invasion and metastatic cancer, and true long-term cures are rare. However, neuroendocrine and cystic neoplasms of the pancreas such as mucinous cystadenocarcinomas or intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN) have much better survival rates than pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

In patients able to undergo a successful curative resection (only about 20% of patients), median survival time ranges from 12-19 months, and the 5-year survival rate is 15-20%. The best predictors of long-term survival after surgery are a tumor diameter of less than 3 cm, no nodal involvement, negative resection margins, and diploid tumor DNA content.

While there are certainly people who do live longer (Patrick Swayze is an example), they are the exception, not the rule.

[shadowknows69]

51. My wife lost her brother to it in about that much time

Sadly the assesment is probably fairly accurate, BUT YOU DON'T FUCKING SAY IT OUT LOUD YOU ASSHAT!

[Posteritatis]

63. I always try to keep the surprising ones like that in mind

Better than narrowing in on the pessimistic figures and declaring someone walking dead like what often happens with cancers these days.

One of my friends' mothers about five years ago got nailed hard with lung cancer, in the metastasized-to-the-brain sense of the word "nailed." She somehow managed to beat it off to the point where she's pretty much back to her pre-cancer state today. It ain't supposed to happen, but sometimes it does.

Some people are just hardcore.

[Judi Lynn]

43. People who insist upon discussing sensitive, personal information like this publicly

died intellectually, and morally long ago.

It's not something to gibber about publicly. Anyone with questions about the illness is certainly capable of finding out more about the condition personally any number of ways. We don't need pompous assholes deciding they're just going to educate everyone else.

Have a trace of decency, mind your own business, and let this woman go through this serious moment in her life without the big fleshy noses of idiots rooting around in her personal life, passing around their exalted points of view as if they could EVER matter to the rest of us.

Learn some respect for your fellow beings. They share the world with you, it's not all yours. Butt the fuck OUT.

We're adults, we take our lives seriously. It's about time you did, too.

[bdamomma]

44. no such thing as compassion or respect from these repugs

what a rude thing to say.

[Lost in CT]

45. Sometimes one should use that inside voice.

You know the one that says hey this may not be the best topic to bring up.

Fucking classless fuckwad.

[shadowknows69]

50. Well folks, I think we've finally discovered the lowest form of life on earth

And thy name is Republican. There aren't words to describe what an inhuman tool this guy is.

[boilinmad]

54. And, on a side note...

...the idiot spawned 9 children. Gross.

[Judi Lynn]

57. Good grief! We're so blessed, aren't we? All those Bunnings. Wow.

Republicans for life. It would take people like this hundreds of years to finally produce a Democrat.

Welcome to D.U., boilinmad. :hi:

[Myrina]

58. Did he consult Dr. Cat-Killer Frist on that diagnosis?

:puke:

[TEmperorHasNoClothes]

59. bunting should have stayed with baseball

at least he didn't need to open his mouth.

[KamaAina]

60. He should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame

he just became the only pitcher ever to throw both a no-hitter and a no-brainer. :dunce:

[Dortiz]

64. Apparently, Bunning can foresee the future

What an a-hole

[Pryderi]

65. What a pig.

[CBHagman]

66. As opposed, of course, to the GOOD cancer.

Well, thank you, Dr. Bunning for that diagnosis.

Now repair to the proctologist to dislodge that head of yours.

[Xenotime]

67. This is why these people don't need to be in power

[Dinger]

68. I'll Make A Little Prediction Alright,

but not here:evilgrin:

[JerseygirlCT]

72. That's just despicable. nt

[cascadiance]

73. Someone should ask him why Steve Jobs is still alive then...

If all forms of pancreatic cancer are a short term death sentence...

Though Jobs had a rare form of the cancer that is more survivable...

I think in more ways than one I'm glad she didn't get it earlier when Bush was in office. Just the worry about who Bush would have replaced her with might have been enough to hasten her mortality too. Perhaps now that she knows Obama will likely be the one to ultimately replace her, she will live that much longer with a greater sense of security of her legacy not being messed up...

[Raine]

74. Sick son of a bitch

cold hearted bastard! :mad:

[SOS]

75. US life expectancy: 78.06 years

Bunning will be 78 in October.
Statistically, Bunning will be dead in 9 months, too.