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Oh, for chrissake. Has anyone checked for radiation?

suck it libs (obligatory).

The 17th amendment of the U.S. Constitution says state legislatures can give their governors the power to appoint someone else to take over, but only in the case of "vacancies."

What's a vacancy? Clearly death or resignation, but history suggests not much else. Serious illness doesn't count.

The Senate Historian's office cites several examples of a senator being incapacitated for years and remaining in office.

Most recently, Sen. Karl Mundt (ironically, also from South Dakota) suffered a stroke in 1969 and was incapacitated, but he refused to step down. He remained in office until Jan. 1973 when his term expired. Mundt was pressured repeatedly to step down during his illness, but he demanded that the governor promise to appoint his wife. The governor refused, and Mundt remained in office.

Another example was Sen. Carter Glass, D-VA. Sen. Glass had a heart condition that prevented him from working for most of his last term after his re-election in 1942. Yet Glass refused to resign, and finally passed away from congestive heart failure in his apartment at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC in May of 1946.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16191212/

So let's just hope it's not that bad.

Let's not panic. First, he's a young guy. Second, good hospitals will treat strokes with a new clot breaking med - if he has a clot, he could walk away from this in a few days. I think he has a clot.

Yes, and by 'suck it libs', 98104, I'm sure you meant to say, 'suck it democracy, the will of the voters, and free and fair elections'.

I mean, you'd have thunk it wouldda been Cheney, but no!

Point taken Monkey, but it's not just a matter of being on a respirator and not wanting to vacate office- his *vote* is actually needed because of the numbers. I don't consider Lieberman to be a reliable vote (no matter what he says) although I do think Sanders would only vote for something R if his fingernails were being pulled out.

Without Johnson's ability to actually vote, that means the Senate will be in a 48 D 49 R 2 Indep position. It will only give more power to the Lieberman crowd, which I think portends badly on certain matters. I better dust off my Senate Rules manual to see what that might mean...

One potential upside is that it might take Cheney a bit more out of the equation (while ceding power to Lieberman or any D that wants to cross over) The only time the VP votes is in the case of a tie- which is not possible with 99 voting.

Hey Dan,

You need to put quotes around the parts you took verbatim from the MSNBC web page. You wouldn't want them to plagiarize you.

Sorry Dan. I read a previous post and thought it was from you. Forgive me because I'm stoned.

Nope, that was me. That's why I included the link. I'll " next time like a good boy.

mmmmm, s t o n e d . . . *drools*

I guess small plane crashes are passe.

This week just keeps getting worse...

Looks like my man Lieberman looms larger than ever!

Chill, everyone. If it was a stroke, it now appears it was caught early. Besides, people can recover from strokes. Steve Largent had a stroke, but that hasn't stopped him from pulling down big bucks as a telecom lobbyist.

Steve Largent is the undead.

msnbc's now reporting that it wasn't a stroke, but that he's hospitalized for evaluation.

It sounds like whatever it was, it was quite minor. He became disoriented and stammered during a phone call, recovered during the course of the call, and checked into the hospital for observation. Let's not get overly dramatic just yet.

Not a stroke, according to reports. Enjoy your flight -- glad you got upgraded to 1st class!

Steve Largent is the undead.

With good hands, as Seahawks fans should know.

If he ends up in a coma, at least we can count on Bill Frist and George Bush to insist he be kept alive no matter what, right?

He's having emergency brain surgery. Let's all grab hands for the secular prayer circle.