They’ve Fallen, And They Can’t Get Up
An exclusive Capitol Hill luncheon for newly-sworn in President Barack Obama turned into a M.A.S.H. unit for geriatric U.S. Senators yesterday as both Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) had to be helped from the meal after collapsing.
Kennedy’s situation – described as a seizure – was much more severe, as the 76-year-old had to be hospitalized. According to his doctors, Kennedy is being evaluated at Washington Hospital Center.
Meanwhile Byrd’s aides insisted that their man – who is ninety-one – was simply “overcome with emotion” over his fallen colleague.
Hmmm …
Despite being diagnosed with a brain tumor last year, Kennedy by all accounts was back to his gregarious, hard-charging self prior to yesterday’s collapse.
Byrd, on the other hand, looks like lifting the plastic spoon on some tapioca pudding is pretty much all he’s game for these days – a far cry from his strapping youth as an Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan.
Also, 75-year-old Dianne Feinstein (D-California) is clearly showing her age these days, clutching hard on the arm of her escort as she was led to the podium yesterday morning to kick off the inaugural ceremony.
Obviously, we don’t wish harm on these two liberal lions (and one “lioness”) of the U.S. Senate.
Unlike so many of their Republican colleagues, at least they come by their big government boondoggling honestly.
We just wish them (and frankly 95% of the U.S. Congress) a speedy retirement …
Comments
By Whippersnapper on January 21st, 2009 at 9:12 am
Just think – in another decade, Byrd will be as old as Strom was when he finally quit. South Carolina holds the patent on sending senile senators to Washington.
By James the Foot Soldier on January 21st, 2009 at 5:01 pm
The 2 above referenced low-wattage gurglers are Exhibit A for why the Dems poured so much cash into overturning the election in Minnesota. Who would have known without the army of lawyers that all those ballots would have been “forgotten” in the back of all those poll workers car??
The third low-wattage gurgler out in the Dakotas is wheeled in for those rare votes where dems actually need to number up – a rarity given all the mealy-mouthed RINOs in the U.S. Senate.