It’s pretty hard to decipher the logic behind this statement by Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning:
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. — U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning predicted over the weekend that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would likely be dead from pancreatic cancer within nine months.
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.
Ginsburg, who is 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.
Aside from the sheer ugh factor of Bunning predicting, seemingly hoping for, Ginsburg’s death, his statement makes no sense whatsoever.
How, exactly, does Bunning think that Ginsburg leaving the Court would put conservative judges in place ?
Has he forgotten who the President is, never mind who controls the Senate ?
