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#1 Dec 13 2006 at 1:34 PM Rating: Good
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson (news, bio, voting record), Democrat of South Dakota, had an apparent stroke on Wednesday at his office in Washington and has been hospitalized, NBC News reported.

The condition of the 59-year-old Johnson was unknown, the network said.

When the 110th Congress convenes on January 4, there will be 49 Democrats in the Senate, 49 Republicans and two independents. But the two independents will align themselves with the Democrats, giving them majority control of the Senate.

South Dakota's governor, Michael Rounds, who would appoint any successor if there is a vacancy, is a Republican.

Hoepfully he's fine. Nice guy, a good advocate for Tribal Colleges.
#2REDACTED, Posted: Dec 13 2006 at 1:40 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) ha ha...Hope he rots in h*ll with the other satan loving liberals.
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#4 Dec 13 2006 at 1:43 PM Rating: Good
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Like 98.26% of the population, I share his last name.
#5 Dec 13 2006 at 1:44 PM Rating: Good
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Like 98.26% of the population, I share his last name.
Did you ever ***** him?
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Little early. The guy's not dead and might be completely fine in a week.
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Atomicflea wrote:
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Like 98.26% of the population, I share his last name.
Did you ever ***** him?


Do you realize how long it will take me to get through 98.26% of the population?


he's penciled in for sunday.
#8 Dec 13 2006 at 1:56 PM Rating: Good
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Little early. The guy's not dead and might be completely fine in a week.


Anyone ever see the movie Dave where they replaced the president with a guy who looked like him and blamed a stroke? Just sayin...
#9 Dec 13 2006 at 2:04 PM Rating: Decent
Hope he comes through Ok.
#10 Dec 13 2006 at 2:10 PM Rating: Excellent
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God's judgement on South Dakota IMO.
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The Associated Press version of the story is slightly more heartening; provided you're hoping the man is okay.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota suffered a possible stroke Wednesday and was taken to a Washington hospital, his office said.

Johnson became disoriented during a call with reporters at midday, stuttering in response to a question. He appeared to recover, asking if there were any additional questions before ending the call.

If he should be unable to continue to serve, it could halt the scheduled Democratic takeover of the Senate. Democrats won a 51-49 majority in the November election. South Dakota's governor, who would appoint any temporary replacement, is a Republican.

Johnson spokeswoman Julianne Fisher said he had walked back to his Capitol office after the call with reporters but appeared to not be feeling well. The Capitol physician came to his office and examined him, and it decided he needed to go to the hospital.

He was taken by ambulance to George Washington University Hospital around noon, Fisher said.

"It was caught very early," she said.

Johnson's office released a statement saying he had suffered a possible stroke.

"At this stage, he is undergoing a comprehensive evaluation by the stroke team," the statement read.
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#12 Dec 13 2006 at 2:37 PM Rating: Good
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If it was a stroke and shows no ill effects, likely he'll just be put on some sort of blood thinner and monitored. From the tone, it doesn't sound like they fear it would affect his ability to serve.
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#14 Dec 14 2006 at 2:14 AM Rating: Decent
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Alright then.

No one knows this but this Mr Johnson was in fact a double secret agent on the payroll of the FSB. This is why he helped the Tribal Indians, in order to bring down the US government through liberal measures, and replace them with a Native American governemnt that would force casinos and booze upon the rest of you guys.

Soon, you will find traces of Plutonium 210 in his body, linking his death to that of Mr Litvinenko. What no one knows, however, is that the Russian have made a deal with Iranians and the Congolese to spread Plutonuim 210 all over the planet, thereby turning every country in the world into a natural nuclear reactor.

This was step 1 of the operation known in the inner cirlce of the FSB as "Operation ***** the Whities".

Step 2 is quite simple. Every single country in the world will soon be able to produce Nuclear Weapons naturally, by simply breathing into large aluminuim tubes and sealing them. Once this happens, Russia will be free to declare a state of emergency and invade the EU, Africa, and the Solomen Islands. America, caught in Casino fever, will be unable and unwilling to respond. They will be far too concerned with the strange spin the roulette table has, and why the marble never falls on black, and how Crazy-Talk is funny when he does his Bruce Willis impression.

China, which has been relatively quiet in all this, will finally put into action it's secret weapon called "All the Chinamen jump from table now!!", which involves every single Chinese person jumping from the table unto the floor, thereby causing the Earth to divert from its gravitational pull and head straight from the sun. The only way to revert to the original rotation of the Earth and prevent a galactic meltdown will be for every Chinese person to jump back unto their table, thereby repostioning the Earth on its natural course.

Unfortunately, they will be unwilling to do this unless the US finally admits the Lady Di, Elvis, and Bob marley are still alive. Those three will be forced by NASA to emerge from their Louisiana farm and reveal to the world that they are alive and well,and have been killing time by watching repeats of Seinfeld, though rumour has it that Bob was not too happy about Kramer's outburst, but he understands hecklers can be quite annoying, sometimes..

While the world recovers from this schocking news, the FSB (you'd forgotten about them, I bet), will be free to reintroduce communism to the masses, thereby lifting the burkha of capitalist oppression and reverting the means of productions to the few workers left in South-East Asia.


Voila!


It might sound far-fetched, but that's eactly what they want you to think...
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#15 Dec 14 2006 at 6:54 AM Rating: Good
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I was telling Joph last night that I am definitely dating myself when it comes to my Hill knowledge. I was reading this story last night and they said "Tim Johnson, the senior Senator for SD" and I thought "No dumbasses, that's Daschle" before I corrected myself. Smiley: frown
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Johnson became disoriented during a call with reporters at midday, stuttering in response to a question.





I heard a recording of this on the radio. I did not want to hear it again.
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I was telling Joph last night that I am definitely dating myself when it comes to my Hill knowledge. I was reading this story last night and they said "Tim Johnson, the senior Senator for SD" and I thought "No dumbasses, that's Daschle" before I corrected myself.


I miss Daschle. He was the hands down leader in the "most power per actual vote" category for years and years.
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Senator Johnson is in critical condition following brain surgery.

Well, this WILL be interesting.

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WASHINGTON -- Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota was in critical but stable condition today after late-night emergency brain surgery, creating political drama about which party will control the Senate next month if he is unable to continue in office.

Johnson suffered from bleeding in the brain caused by a congenital malformation, the U.S. Capitol physician said, describing the surgery as successful. The condition, present at birth, causes tangled blood vessels.

"The senator is recovering without complication," the physician, Adm. John Eisold, said. "It is premature to determine whether further surgery will be required or to assess any long-term prognosis."

Eisold said doctors had to drain the blood that had accumulated in Johnson's brain and stop continued bleeding.

Johnson's condition, also known as AVM, or arteriovenous malformation, causes arteries and veins to grow abnormally large and become tangled.

The senator's wife, Barbara Johnson, said the family "is encouraged and optimistic."

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In 1969, another South Dakota senator, Karl Mundt, a Republican, suffered a stroke while in office. Mundt continued to serve until the end of his term in January 1973, although he was unable to attend Senate sessions and was stripped of his committee assignments by the Senate Republican Conference in 1972.


Well at least there's a precedent when Harry Ried starts wheeling him around and feeding him yogurt through a spoon while pressing voting buttons for him.

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Sounds like it was an AVM -- Arterio-venous malformation. AVMs can cause bleeding inside the brain which are essentially indistinguishable from a stroke, though as we are seeing with Senator Johnson, the treatment is quite different. It is interesting that he was never described as having a headache, which is typically the hallmark of a ruptured or bleeding AVM. Oh well, that's the risk one takes trying to read between the lines of the incomplete or inaccurate media reports.

Presuming that the senator underwent craniotomy to repair the damage, it is a big surgery, and a serious condition, but the outlook for survival and a functional recovery are good. The recuperation period, however, can be prolonged.
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It is interesting that he was never described as having a headache, which is typically the hallmark of a ruptured or bleeding AVM.


Yeah, I can't imagine they'd publicize that. Too much like whining.
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Since he survived the initial burst and bleed, he'll likely survive going forward. The danger will be what damage was caused by the surgery itself. Depending on where the AVM was in the brain, any of a number of systems can be damaged while repairing a burst. A very close friend of mine has been suffering with a very large AVM since she was 15 (obviously since birth, but that's when she started having grand mal seizures). In her case, it's located right over her speach center. If it were to require surgery, she would alsost certainly lose the ability to talk.

Interesting bits about AVMs. They're actually *more* dangerous the smaller they are. Large ones tend to manifest symptoms (like seizures) at a relatively early stage, will be detected and can be treated. Small ones will never be noticed. You just can't find them unless you're already looking for them. But the chance of a burst grows each year of your life (by about a percent a year). Johnson actually made it a statistically longer amount of time then he should have in this case. If they burst they're incredibly dangerous and quite often fatal. He got lucky in this case.

Treatments for AVMs include careful monitoring of blood pressure levels. My friend basically takes barbituates for this and has for over half her life. It's not a debilitating level, but alchohol consumption is a no-no. Stress levels have to be kept low as well. With this condition you literally can "burst a blood vessel", and die if you get too upset about something or too stressed about something. There's a number of surgical proceedures to reduce the likelyhood of a bleed by essentially cutting off the feeder veins to the malformed tissue. Obviously, they have to make sure that no needed portion of the brain is actually using that blood flow (with a small AVM, this is less likely). They then basically send a tube up from the groin, guide it into the correct areas of the brain, and glue shut the correct feeder veins. Yeah. A fun proceedure...

Once sealed off, they can use a variety of radio treatements to kill off the tissue (much like a tumor). My friend has had multiple treatments at Stanford (the best place in the world for this specific ailment). Aside from minor hair loss and divots in her head from the halo device used to aim the radiation, it's not that terrible of a proceedure.

Not sure how much of this will apply to Mr. Johnson. Given that he had a bleed and needed surgury, how much future treatment he'll need will be dependant on how critical his situation was during the surgery. If they spent all their time stopping the bleeding, it's unlikely they had time to correctly seal of the AVM itself and perhaps remove it entirely (not even sure they can or want to do that directly though). There's a ton of things that could have gone wrong with his surgery. Since they didn't have time to adequately map the brain functions around the AVM itself, they'll have no way to know what damage they might have done while performing the surgery itself. There's a reason why 90% of the treatments for this condition revolve around avoiding a bleed and reducing the damage of a burst over time. They want to do everything they can to avoid having to open up someone skull and start cutting into tissue.


Not sure how this affects his ability to serve in the Senate though. As I understand the rules, he has to die or resign to be replaced. Gives new meaning to the phrase "empty suit" though, but there's nothing "legally" preventing him from serving even in a vegetative state, and I doubt he'll be that bad off...
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#26 Dec 16 2006 at 3:23 AM Rating: Default
Too bad he wasn't nicknamed "Tiny", then we could blame Scrooge Mc. Bush. How long have the D & R parties existed and when and why were any of they wetee-wetee supplanted?
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