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| John Fetterman to spend 'weeks' in hospital over depression: aide |
| 2023-02-19 |
| [MSN] Sen. John Fetterman will likely need to be hospitalized for at least "a few weeks" as he receives inpatient treatment for clinical depression in Washington, DC, a senior aide said Friday. It’s been hard for staffers to tell whether the 53-year-old Pennsylvania Democrat has been unresponsive in recent weeks due to hearing loss from the stroke he suffered in May — or because he’s in the throes of despair, the aide told NBC. "[He’s] not hearing you or is he sort of crippled by his depression and social anxiety," said the aide— adding that staffers were surprised by the severity of his depression. The potential weeks-long mental health treatment won’t impact Fetterman’s ability to do his job in the future and his resignation is "not even on the table in any sense," the aide insisted. Fetterman’s office announced Thursday that he had checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after a stint at George Washington University Hospital last week for lightheadedness and other health problems. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 My planned joke was to call him a rock star senator and then equate him to someone like the lead singer for The Beach Boys. This is too sad for that. I am disgusted. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-02-19 14:20 |
| #7 ... hospital psych ward... Isn't that another name for Congress? |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2023-02-19 14:06 |
| #6 Given the laundry list of "co-sponsorship" bills, it gives clear evidence that this pathetic husk of an intellect is a mere cardboard cutout for the professional staff of the demokrat party. The farce will be elevated further as the thrift-store, fashion-plate wife parades in front of the cameras to assure Pennsylvanians of the "tireless, deeply thoughtful work her husband is doing as he fights for them! " As an aside, with Lurch in the hospital psych ward, have Manchin and Sinema grasped they are back in short-term control of the Senate and the squeeze play on Chucky? If the Turtle isn't already on final approach for departure as his replacement is arranged, it might make for some interesting opportunities? |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-02-19 13:01 |
| #4 The big surprise to me is that he's only 53. He looks much older and much worse than 53. |
| Posted by: Tom 2023-02-19 07:04 |
| #3 "...potential weeks-long mental health treatment won’t impact Fetterman’s ability to do his job in the future and his resignation is "not even on the table in any sense," the aide insisted." So since the very start, he has been out in the Ozone physically and in the midst of serious mental illness break-down. Yet the LSD run Senate has not raised the issue of his ability to vote on our Constitutional rights, and pass laws that restrict citizens rights etc? I also just checked "justfacts.votesmart.org" It states he has NOT voted on any major bill, or law since taking office. However, he has somehow co-sponsored bills protecting Abortion, greater Gun Control restrictions, weakening voter ID and voting ballot process restrictions, gone after oil companies as he Anti-GAS, pro-EV and including granting statehood for the District of Columbia? Note: He is on the Senate Agriculture Committee, and it too is pushing ways to control what you can grow, how you can grow it, and what you can eat. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-02-19 06:36 |
| #2 So can he vote? |
| Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Hupesing6318 2023-02-19 04:15 |
| #1 Allow me to be the first to say "John Fetterman did not kill himself." |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2023-02-19 01:06 |