Sen. Leahy Taken To Hospital ‘Out Of An Abundance Of Caution’

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Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the Senate president pro tempore, was taken to the hospital Tuesday “out of an abundance of caution” after feeling ill.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1356906
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I hope it’s nothing. Please let him be well.

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Shit…

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Oh fun. Vermont governor, Phil Scott, is a Republican.

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If you had to sit a room full of traitors and asswipes who want to protect the insurrectionist-in-chief, you’d be ill too.

Get well, Senator!

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Fuck.

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Ditto. Damn.

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Underscores just how fragile the dem majority is, all we need is to lose one senator in the wrong state and Mitch is back in charge. And so many senators are in their 70s and 80s.

Is this any way to run a country?

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He didn’t look well the other day.

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Scott is Republican but he is also sane and moderate.We have to get out of the habit of assuming the worst will happen every day. Just because it usually does doesn’t mean it always will. :smiley: :grin:

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Jeeze folks, he didn’t die and he’s likely fine.

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Liked x gazillions.

So true. hahahahaha

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How is it that McConnell and his Maskless Marauders never get ill? Satan must be giving them demon blood transfusions during their lunch breaks.

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There but for the grace of FSM, goes Rand Paul.

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Ask Paul Wellstone.

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Agreed but I was having that Ted Kennedy flashback where our side had a majority for the briefest of times then it was gone when Sen. Kennedy passed. Knee-jerk reaction to the last few years. Here’s hoping he is fine.

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Biden: busy obtaining COVID vaccines from pharma

GOP/Trump KKKult: busy obtaining Novichok from Putin

No? What? Too soon?

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And yet, Donald, Don. Jr, and Rudy still walk among us.

Karma’s just phoning it in.

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Don’t know if anyone has already referenced this, but VT gov has said he’d appoint an independent who would caucus with Dems and not run for the seat in a special election that would be held within six months. But here’s hoping all is well with Patrick Leahy, a very fine public servant.

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No. Precisely nobody sane or moderate would still call themselves a Republican at this point. Nor would anyone sane and moderate send a Republican to replace Leahy and thereby hand McConnell back the Senate when the people voted for Dem control, but Scott would 100% guaranteed do that.

Fuck enablers. Fuck them all to death.

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