(The Center Square) – Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. John Fetterman recently checked into the Walter Reed National Military Center due to a severe bout of clinical depression, his office confirmed in a statement on Thursday.
“While John has experienced depression on and off throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks,” the statement read.
It’s the second hospitalization for Fetterman in as many weeks following a two-day stay for testing after he left a Democratic retreat early due to lightheadedness. He was released Feb. 10 after doctors said he showed no signs of stroke or seizure.
Fetterman, the former lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, was elected to federal office in November – just five months after suffering a massive stroke that kept him hospitalized for weeks. He’s since struggled with speech and language processing deficits that have required special accommodations on the Senate floor.
“After what he’s been through in the past year, there’s probably no one who wanted to talk about his own health less than John,” said Gisele Fetterman, the senator’s wife, in a statement posted to Twitter. “I’m so proud of him for asking for help and getting the care he needs.”
According to the office’s statement, physicians at Walter Reed recommended Fetterman receive inpatient care and anticipate “he will soon be back to himself.”
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Fetterman’s November win against Dr. Mehmet Oz swung a red seat to blue in the Senate. He succeeded former Sen. Pat Toomey, who chose not to seek reelection. Fifty-one senators are in the caucus of Democrats, including three unaffiliated; there are 49 Republicans.
If Pennsylvanians actually voted for Fetterman they deserve to be without representation in the Senate. Casey is out too, for surgery.
IF He was already clinically depressed, HOW WAS HE ALLOWED TO RUN for office?!?!?
Fetterman Battlefield is the site of the U.S. Army’s worst defeat by Plains Indian groups with the exception of the Battle of Little Big Horn. On Dec. 21, 1866, Capt. William J. Fetterman sent to assist a wagon train in peril, was lured by Crazy Horse and other Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors over Lodge Trail Ridge just north of Fort Phil Kearney. Fetterman had been ordered not to go over the ridge and out of sight of the fort. North of the ridge the troops encountered more than 1,000 Cheyenne, Lakota and Arapaho fighters. In only 30 minutes, all 81 U.S. soldiers were killed.
This AWOL Fetterman of today listens to his doctors, like Capt. Fetterman listened to his commanding officer, with the same potential results for himself and THE PEOPLE he inadequately leads and represents in the Senate, now having no leader to protect their Pennsylvanian interests. He and Pocahontas make a great pair don’t they, both lured by the Crazy horses and Democrat donkeys of a party of renegade politicians on a mission to destroy America, via the inadequacies of their own self-destruction, heightened by the Cavitas of their Gravitas, leaving gaping empty cavities where solid substance is needed to chew on the problems of governing.
Hey Leonidas, some of us didn’t vote for Fetterman, believe it or not. If Trump had kept his mouth shut, or better yet endorsed Dave McCormick, we would probably not be in this mess right now.
Classic example of what happens when a horde of low-information voters go to the polls. Well—they asked for it—they got it.
The Democrat Party wins most of their followers because they are ill-informed and/or low intellect.
Democrat’s propaganda or narrative works on an emotional level, not on the intellect level. The Democrat Party supporters are mentally subjective, how they Want Facts, Truth and reality to be.
Not Objective, how Facts, Truth and reality are. Subjective fools believe their own lies.
And folks wonder why i keep saying, WE NEED AN IQ test, or at least a common sense test, to register to vote..
I would be content to just have a valid ID and to be registered to vote.
In Florida one must provide a birth certificate just to get a drivers license. Does anyone hear the hear the disgraceful woke Democrats whining about racial discrimination? Are all the people of color being discriminated against or does it apply to EVERYONE?
Thing is, just having ID, doesn’t mean one is Smart and that’s been the problem for years. iMO at least.
TOO MANY just dumb as a box-o-rocks voters..