Class (or lack thereof)

I read (last night as the story was unfolding) about Senator Tim Johnson's (D-SD) illness and said a quick prayer for him. Later, while reading Michelle Malkin's post on the story, I decided to follow a link she provided to the DU discussion on his illness. I figured there had to be more than a few posts blaming the Bush/Cheney/Rove/Halliburton network for a congenital disease. Well the firewall on the Junior Logician's computer would not allow me access to DU because of the language and subject matter of the site. I laughed and decided to wait until this morning.

My patience was not misplaced. While all over the right side of the blogosphere you have people expressing their hopes for the Senators rapid recovery and return to service, the left side of the blogosphere is in full froth over the possibility that THEY COULD LOSE THE SENATE! Brian Maloney (over at Radio Equalizer) has a great round up of reaction, but here are a few of my personal favorites.

"My God,these vultures are murdering to keep POWER. BushCo`s CIA has all sorts of devious ways to induce a “stroke” I am guessing this is no accident with the South Dakota senator.Yea,Paul Wellstone all over again.

Comment by raymond collins — December 13, 2006 @ 7:18 pm"

and

"Its a sad comment on this Administration that the first thing I thought was that this was a White House Kremlin job to keep control of the Senate.By: rockwell on December 13, 2006 at 05:08pm"

What absolutely sent me over the edge was the press' reaction to the Senator's condition. This (from the NY Times) was a typical reaction

" Senator Tim Johnson, a Democrat from South Dakota, was hospitalized today after what his office at first called a “possible stroke,” leading to concern among Democrats that their new one-vote majority in the Senate could be in danger." (emphasis mine)

Now I understand that in DC politics is everything, but come on!!!! Here we have a human being, with a family who is worried sick about what is going on, and all the press can talk about is which political party gets to keep the majority???? What a pack of vultures! Is there nothing that is more important to these people than power? Sadly, I think the answer is no.

First and foremost my thoughts and prayers are with Senator Johnson and his family. Fifty Nine is way too young for this to be happening (says someone who is quickly creeping up on the big 5-0). Like Mitch, this is not how I prefer to "win". I want to lay it all out going into election day and let the people decided. I don't want power decided by who the lucky appointee is. That takes all the fun out of it!