John Fetterman Will Be Alright

Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) was recently in the hospital for what turned out to be exhaustion, not another stroke as some had feared.  Revelations that his stroke in 2022 left him hard of hearing - so hard, he hears voice as being like muffled brass instruments, not unlike the adult speech in "Peanuts" television specials - led to some rather nasty memes depicting Fetterman as Charlie Brown, complete with a yellow shirt with a black zigzag stripe.

Fetterman recently returned to the hospital - this time for treatment of clinical depression, which some conservatives on social media are likely to mock.  Yeah?  Well, listen, if you had a stroke, if you came from a dirt-poor town like Braddock, Pennsylvania, and if you were continuously disparaged by your political opponents, you'd  be clinically depressed too.  

The really cool thing is that Fetterman has gotten bipartisan support form his fellow senators in his time of trouble, and he has been celebrated for his courage to admit that he has a problem and is willing to seek treatment in public to let people know that it's okay . . . not to be okay.

I know that Senator Fetterman is going to get better and get the care he needs.  He's not alright now . . . but he will be. 

With a Little Help And No Friends

New York congressman Anthony Weiner, friendless and alone on Capitol Hill, has decided to take leave of absence from his job and seek help. Somehow, I don't think Democrats will miss him. Republicans, noting that he's still a congressman, probably won't forget that fact, and they're not going to let Democrats forget that either.

But things may change . . . for the benefit of the Democrats. Late word tonight is that Weiner may in fact resign, now that, ahem, even more embarrassing photos of him have surfaced!

My take? Weiner will quit, and we'll have forgotten the whole thing by Independence Day . . . and the press will then distract Americans from the debt ceiling debate by reporting the disappearance of a white woman in the South . . . or that one of the Kardashian sisters has run out of dental floss. :-p