Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) had a stroke

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In South Dakota, the governor appoints a senator's replacement. In South Dakota, the governor is a Republican. The senate, as you'll recall, is precariously teetering on a 51-49 Democrat advantage... BUT FOR HOW LONG

― iiiijjjj (iiiijjjj), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.foxnews.com/images/root_images/121306_boyle.jpg

Link?

― PPlains (PPlains), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

rip peter boyle

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah. Good ol FOX: >> Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson Suffers Possible Stroke

― PPlains (PPlains), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

they announced it on MSNBC and then tucker got a visible hard-on and started speculating about how it will play out before he got scolded by some guys for not just wishing well for senator johnson at this point and now they're talking about illegal immigration instead

― iiiijjjj (iiiijjjj), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

it apparently is going to destroy america

― iiiijjjj (iiiijjjj), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

12-11-4. Temporary appointment by Governor to fill vacancy in United States Senate. Pursuant to the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, the Governor may fill by temporary appointment, until a special election is held pursuant to this chapter, vacancies in the office of senator in the Senate of the United States.

Source: SL 1979, ch 99, § 1.

Don't know what "vacancy" means.

― PPlains (PPlains), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, Dick Clark still does the Rockin' New Year's Eve thing.

― PPlains (PPlains), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

there's a freep paypal fundraiser to buy rick santorum a house in sioux falls

― urghonomic (gcannon), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

what does the word vacancy meeeeean when you don't expect annnnything?

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

http://heydontbeadick.blogspot.com/

― a_p (a_p), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

actually i made that up. but this is a little scary. get well senator johnson!

― urghonomic (gcannon), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Has there ever been a time since 1910 that a Governor appointed someone to a vacant US Senate seat that wasn't a member of the same party?

― PPlains (PPlains), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/13/johnson.stroke/index.html

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah Christ, he's a year younger than my dad. I hope he gets well soon.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Your dad's sick?

― PPlains (PPlains), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Nope, my dad's okay, fortunately.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, thread has got this far w/o mention of Wellstone, polonium, Rovian strategy etc - kudos! anyway, get thee well Senator.

― bill sackter (bill sackter), Thursday, 14 December 2006 03:16 (seventeen years ago) link

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061214/ap_on_go_co/johnson_13

Neither stroke nor heart attack.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Thursday, 14 December 2006 03:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Just a mild case of dementia, everything should just turn out fine.

― PPlains (PPlains), Thursday, 14 December 2006 04:53 (seventeen years ago) link

"mild case of dementia"

HI DERE

http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/upload/f/fb/Jim_Bunning.jpg

― bill sackter (bill sackter), Thursday, 14 December 2006 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Mild?

― PPlains (PPlains), Thursday, 14 December 2006 05:54 (seventeen years ago) link

The only way there would be a vacancy to fill is if Johnson died or resigned. Even if incapacitated, he could remain in office, according to the Senate historian's office.

― max (maxreax), Thursday, 14 December 2006 06:03 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.501st.ca/events/newalliance2k1/solo-carbonite.jpg

― PPlains (PPlains), Thursday, 14 December 2006 06:28 (seventeen years ago) link

"The only way there would be a vacancy to fill is if Johnson died or resigned."

OMG, GOP NOW IN FAVOR OF EUTHANASIA, FUCK A SCIAV0

― bill sackter (bill sackter), Thursday, 14 December 2006 07:16 (seventeen years ago) link

t/s carbon freezing vs. euthanasia

― max (maxreax), Thursday, 14 December 2006 07:18 (seventeen years ago) link

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota was undergoing brain surgery early Thursday at George Washington University Hospital after suffering stroke-like symptoms, two Democratic sources familiar with his condition told CNN.

― bill sackter (bill sackter), Thursday, 14 December 2006 07:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Admiral John Eisold, Attending Physician of the United States Capitol said, “Subsequent to his admission to George Washington University Hospital yesterday, Senator Tim Johnson was found to have had an intracerebral bleed caused by a congenital arteriovenous malformation. He underwent successful surgery to evacuate the blood and stabilize the malformation. The Senator is recovering without complication in the critical care unit at George Washington University Hospital. It is premature to determine whether further surgery will be required or to assess any long term prognosis.”

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 14 December 2006 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

K-Lo at The Corner would have liked a fairer fight:.

Count me as one who does not want to get the Senate to a tie this way. Pray for Senator Johnson.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 December 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

did NPR really hafta play the recording of Johnson stuttering on conf call w/ journos before he collapsed? I assume Fox has had it on a loop.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

"The Today Show" played it too.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

he has AVM, which is what Nate on Six Feet Under had, if that gives any context to this, for anyone (it did for me).

― akm (akmonday), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't he develop it upon sleeping with Lily Taylor?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

it's very possible that the fate of the senate hangs on lili taylor

― akm (akmonday), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

So no one saw fit to question Strom Thurmond's competency for the last year or so when he was a demented old bat, but the second Johnson goes into surgery it's panic mode?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 15 December 2006 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i like this description:

While everyone around him, including the Republican leadership, lied about his ability to put together a thought that was more cogent than, "Ngah, pudding," Thurmond himself was merely an empty vessel shitting out his innards into a nauseatingly full diaper. That didn't matter to the GOP, clinging to a seat that would have to be re-upholstered every week because of the acidic urine stains.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 15 December 2006 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

LOLzerz

― dandy don weiner (dandy don weiner), Friday, 15 December 2006 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, what a week:
* the c.i.a. totes killed diana.
* republicans try to off johnson via this "brain thing," and then...
* the rolling stones take out ahmet!

― Mike McGonigal (yetimike), Friday, 15 December 2006 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link

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