Jim Bunning, U.S. Senator, Says Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Nine Months to Live Tops, With Pancreatic Cancer

It would be great if more people exercised some tact when they open their mouths, but that would be asking way too much from our elected officials. The latest moron to stick his foot in his mouth is U.S. Senator Jim Bunning. He predicted this past weekend that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would likely be dead from pancreatic cancer within nine months. So, now he’s the keeper of this woman’s life?

During a wide-ranging 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. Source: Kentucky Courier-Journal

Ms. Ginsburg, 75, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this month and surgeons removed a small tumor that had not spread. Doctors termed it a “Stage 1” cancer, meaning they found it in the early stages when it is most curable.

According to the American Cancer Society, people diagnosed with Stage 1 pancreatic cancer have between a 21 and 37 percent chance of living for more than five years with the disease. Only about 20 percent of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer live for more than a year, but that’s because the cancer is difficult to detect and generally is found in later stages. Source: Kentucky Courier-Journal

Okay, be that as it may, did he really need to pronounce a death sentence on this woman? Couldn’t he had made his point with more tact? I am sure he could have. There is nothing cavalier about having cancer. Out of respect for this woman, her family and the thousands of people in this country dealing with cancer, he should have been a lot more sensitive instead of so callous. If you ask me, from the looks of his picture, Bunning could possibly die before Ms. Ginsburg.

Ginsburg, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993, is one of the most liberal members of the high court.

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Underwent Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer Today

Photo: LA Times, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Bad news for the United States Supreme Court justices. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the only woman on the Supreme Court and one of the most consistently strong liberal voices in the United States, had surgery today for pancreatic cancer.

In a statement, the court announced that Ginsburg, 75, underwent surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York for removal of a cancerous tumor from her pancreas. The court said:

Justice Ginsburg had no symptoms prior to the incidental discovery of the lesion during a routine annual check-up in late January at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. A Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT) Scan revealed a small tumor, approximately 1 (centimeter) across, in the center of the pancreas. Source: LA Times

My thoughts and prayers go out to her and her family. Ms. Ginsburg was appointed by President Clinton in 1993. She was the second woman appointed to the court, an early litigator and strategist for women’s rights. She had colon cancer 10 years ago.

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