John Fetterman made it one month in the Senate before being hospitalized
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Just five weeks and one day after Sen. John Fetterman took his oath of office, the Pennsylvania Democrat was hospitalized. While doctors maintained that the senator, who nearly died from a stroke last summer, did not suffer a second, Fetterman’s team, as usual, has remained radio silent.
Unsurprisingly, only after President Joe Biden safely expanded his Senate majority during the midterm elections has the media decided to give us the inside scoop on Fetterman’s senility. According to the New York Times, the stroke survivor “suffers from auditory processing issues, forcing him to rely primarily on a tablet to transcribe what is being said to him.” Fetterman’s wife and de facto spokeswoman, Gisele Barreto Fetterman, made sure to tweet a selfie as the senator’s most recent hospitalization crossed the 24-hour mark.
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None of this is surprising, especially given how he stammered his way through a debate with Senate-loser-but-reality-television-winner Mehmet Oz. The only novel suspicion confirmed by John Fetterman’s recent stint in the emergency room is that whoever is pulling the strings was willing to sacrifice Fetterman, the man, for the sake of Fetterman, the 51st vote for Biden and ticket for Gisele Barreto Fetterman’s media profiles.
Don’t believe me? Fine. Take it from John Fetterman’s own chief of staff.
“What you’re supposed to do to recover from [a stroke] is to do as little as possible,” Adam Jentleson told the New York Times, explaining that the Pennsylvania Democrat “was forced to do as much as possible — he had to get back to the campaign trail. It’s hard to claw that back.”
Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) even tried to explain away Fetterman’s reliance on a tablet and closed captioning by likening the junior senator to Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), a veteran who lost her legs in combat.
There’s just one crucial difference besides the one that Democrats know and refuse to acknowledge: Unlike Duckworth’s mental labors in the Senate, which do not exacerbate her physical disabilities in any way, Fetterman’s work is permanently harming whatever odds he had of making a robust mental recovery.
Contrary to the claims of his campaign and his wife, Fetterman’s crisis is one of comprehension and cognitive function. Only now that Biden secured the Senate can the media admit that, but the question remains whether the party will finally give the old man a break.
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