Breaking Raw and Unverified
Last night there were a flurry of diaries about the condition of Sen. Tim Johnson, Democrat of South Dakota. The first was Kos’ from an email by a Johnson staffer stating that the Senator had suffered a stroke, then one that hit the recommended list Senator Johnson Did NOT Have a Stroke, then all night long, stroke by stroke, diary after diary it was had a stroke, may have had a stroke, did not have a stroke.
There was volumes of speculation about the Senator’s medical condition.... even RubDMC interrupted his 583 day series Iraq War Grief Daily Witness to diary about strokes, brain aneurysms and the like.
There was equal speculation about what would happen to the balance of power in the Senate should the Senator succumb to whatever condition he was suffering from, and whether the Governor of South Dakota (a Republican) would appoint the next Senator to fill out Johnson’s next two years in office.
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