Love your headline “Democrats’ Senate Majority Endangered”, not “Best Wishes for a Speedy Recovery” or even “Sen. Johnson Suffers a Stroke”.  Liberal compassion at its finest.

As usual, the underhanded Republicans will come out smelling like a rose.  How many more wars can they get us into and how much more loss of our civil rights, if this one Democrat dies or cannot finish his term?  Pray for the man and our country as if all our lives depended on it!

Is Leiberman counted as a dem?

I understand the political implications should Sen. Johnson have to resign.  But I, for one, am not comfortable with this discussion. Isn’t the man’s health the most important thing right now?

I hope people are concerned about Tim Johnson as an individual and not what his health problem does or doesn’t do to the “balance of power” in the Senate. When the balance of power shifts from the corporate interests to the people in this country you’ll have a real story. In the meantime let’s wish Mr. Johnson a full and speedy recovery.

You Americans are weird!!!

Here in Portugal, if someone die while elected, the party who choosed him in first place gets to indicate a substitute.

Should the Senator die, I wonder how long until the tinfoil hat crowd starts whispering about the ‘assassination’ of Tim Johnson and the ‘neocon plot to retake the Senate’ by poisoning him.

Of course, some in the Christian Right will see it as divine intervention and claim it was god’s will to give the Senate back to the republicans.

Worst case scenario, where Sen Johnson needs to retire from the Senate: no sooner than 80 days and no later than 90 days after the Governor would replace him, South Dakota state law requires a special election to be held. The replacement does not automatically serve out the remainder of the term.

C’mon Trith Dig.  Your smarter than most.  See this for what it is, before it’s too late.  Please.

Republicans shouldn’t be too quick to celebrate regaining control: Jane Brody had an excellent column this week on strokes—including a good mnemonic for symptoms—pointing out that with strokes, time is of the essence. Sen. Johnson seems to have been rushed to the hospital very quickly.

The people of south dakota elected a democrat. i think he should not resign because a likely republican appoint would disenfranchise the electorate who chose a democrat for this job.

This is becoming absolutely hilarious.