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December 15, 2006
Senator Johnson critical but stable
Senator Johnson is responding the touch and speech, which is definitely a great sign! Dr. Jay Mohr gave a great analysis on what he thinks likely happened. He brought up some interesting points that the brain fluids allow a certain amount of overflow into the spinal fluid and that if it was caught quickly enough and treated with our best medicine it's quite possible he could be up and on his feet within a week. I'm more than happy to give the Senator a few more days in bed just to be safe.
You might be asking yourself why the rampant speculation about a Senator dying when he's been in a hospital for less than a couple of days. Well you have the problem of the right wing media and their buddies in the right wing blogosphere. There so many good examples of Compassionate Conservative ideas running around the wingnutospshere it's hard to pick one that encapsulates the feelings of the radical right.
While anyone suffering a stroke is a tragic event, how f***ing hilarious would it be if the Democrats lost control of the Senate right before they were to assume power? I'd laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh
Of course, they are being helped out by the friends in the right wing media. Fox News ran coverage all days trying to figure out a way to steal Johnson's seat while doctors were working to save his life. What was most disgusting was the AP's headline early on in the coverage.
Senate back to 50-50 with Johnson out
Let's let the doctors do their thing before we start declaring people dead folks. To the technical side of things, no matter how much the right wingers want to steal the Senate, if Johnson lives there is no tradition of kicking out Senators from office just because they are ill. The entire discussion of it makes me feel queasy. It seems sheer madness to have to be forced to explain to the right wing media and their godless disciples in the Republican party that this is not how things are done in civilized society. Can you imagine the media coverage if we had started talking about Craig Thomas like they are talking about Johnson? There would be a media feeding frenzy not seen before now to destroy the left wing bloggers. Amazing that for the right wing media it's OK for conservatives to say and do anything they want and they'll print it as if it were truth. This could explain why they are steadily becoming irrelevant in our modern world.
I ask that you keep Senator Johnson and his family in your prayers as well as the United States, which would suffer greatly without his leadership in the Senate. Throw Senator Thomas in as well for good measure.
Read more over at Yahoo News.
Posted by Jamison at December 15, 2006 6:41 AM
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