Senator Fetterman has been hospitalized for depression

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His doctors are saying he will be hospitalized for months now.

MONTHS.

Nope.

This is ridiculous. I’m a Democrat and I say Fetterman owes his constituents more than this. He owes specific details and actual honesty about his fitness. Occupying a seat without being able to fulfill its duties AND without a clear explanation as to when/why is unacceptable. If an R did this, I’d want a special election called yesterday.

Well dream on. You just need to look at Santos. Once elected...that is the end of it. You can literally be a scheming criminal and not lose your seat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His doctors are saying he will be hospitalized for months now.

MONTHS.

Nope.

This is ridiculous. I’m a Democrat and I say Fetterman owes his constituents more than this. He owes specific details and actual honesty about his fitness. Occupying a seat without being able to fulfill its duties AND without a clear explanation as to when/why is unacceptable. If an R did this, I’d want a special election called yesterday.

As a Pennsylvanian, I am good with Fetterman. He has staff and support and he will continue to get things done - and he is not even remotely the only legislator to have suffered a stroke and remained in office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His doctors are saying he will be hospitalized for months now.

MONTHS.

Nope.

This is ridiculous. I’m a Democrat and I say Fetterman owes his constituents more than this. He owes specific details and actual honesty about his fitness. Occupying a seat without being able to fulfill its duties AND without a clear explanation as to when/why is unacceptable. If an R did this, I’d want a special election called yesterday.

Well said, and I agree with you.

This is unacceptable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His doctors are saying he will be hospitalized for months now.

MONTHS.

Nope.

This is ridiculous. I’m a Democrat and I say Fetterman owes his constituents more than this. He owes specific details and actual honesty about his fitness. Occupying a seat without being able to fulfill its duties AND without a clear explanation as to when/why is unacceptable. If an R did this, I’d want a special election called yesterday.

Well said, and I agree with you.

This is unacceptable.

It does not matter. Good or bad or in between, this is the representation that was elected. There is zero recourse for changing election outcomes, even in cases of gross incompetence and criminal behavior, much less having serious healthy issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His doctors are saying he will be hospitalized for months now.

MONTHS.

Nope.

This is ridiculous. I’m a Democrat and I say Fetterman owes his constituents more than this. He owes specific details and actual honesty about his fitness. Occupying a seat without being able to fulfill its duties AND without a clear explanation as to when/why is unacceptable. If an R did this, I’d want a special election called yesterday.

As a Pennsylvanian, I am good with Fetterman. He has staff and support and he will continue to get things done - and he is not even remotely the only legislator to have suffered a stroke and remained in office.

His staff weren’t elected to be a Senator. He was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His doctors are saying he will be hospitalized for months now.

MONTHS.

Nope.

This is ridiculous. I’m a Democrat and I say Fetterman owes his constituents more than this. He owes specific details and actual honesty about his fitness. Occupying a seat without being able to fulfill its duties AND without a clear explanation as to when/why is unacceptable. If an R did this, I’d want a special election called yesterday.

As a Pennsylvanian, I am good with Fetterman. He has staff and support and he will continue to get things done - and he is not even remotely the only legislator to have suffered a stroke and remained in office.

His staff weren’t elected to be a Senator. He was.

True but ignorant comment. He can attract a competent staff which is important. A loser like Santos gets the absolute lowest level staff out there and the constituents get bubkis. Fetterman's constituents will be served.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess “depression” is what we’re calling cognitive deficits arising out of his stroke that prevent him from doing the job.

I guess you have not heard the many strike experts commenting that 1/3 of their patients experience depression.

If you are so uninformed, please refrain from posting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
What exactly does he get in a hospital bed that he could not get at home with 24/7 RN care?

Peace and quiet from everyone telling him he’s good to go back to work.

Therapy. Assessing what dose of medication he needs. Keeping him safe when he is severely depressed. Low stress surroundings. No press parked in front of his house, harassing his family.

Think more than two seconds about it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His doctors are saying he will be hospitalized for months now.

MONTHS.

Nope.

This is ridiculous. I’m a Democrat and I say Fetterman owes his constituents more than this. He owes specific details and actual honesty about his fitness. Occupying a seat without being able to fulfill its duties AND without a clear explanation as to when/why is unacceptable. If an R did this, I’d want a special election called yesterday.

As a Pennsylvanian, I am good with Fetterman. He has staff and support and he will continue to get things done - and he is not even remotely the only legislator to have suffered a stroke and remained in office.

His staff weren’t elected to be a Senator. He was.

THIS.

The media lied to the people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His doctors are saying he will be hospitalized for months now.

MONTHS.

Nope.

This is ridiculous. I’m a Democrat and I say Fetterman owes his constituents more than this. He owes specific details and actual honesty about his fitness. Occupying a seat without being able to fulfill its duties AND without a clear explanation as to when/why is unacceptable. If an R did this, I’d want a special election called yesterday.

As a Pennsylvanian, I am good with Fetterman. He has staff and support and he will continue to get things done - and he is not even remotely the only legislator to have suffered a stroke and remained in office.

His staff weren’t elected to be a Senator. He was.

THIS.

The media lied to the people.

Oh please. You don't know what lying even looks like when it comes to running for Congress.

[Anonymous]

I feel genuinely sorry for the man. I hope he makes a recovery back to baseline and is able to live out the rest of his life at home with his family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are focusing disproportionately on Fetterman. It’s not like everyone in the Senate is the picture of health. The average age of a Senator is like 75 years old and many of them have serious health conditions. (ted Kennedy managed to shepherd Obamacare through while dying of cancer and don’t get me started on Strom Thurmond and Dianne Feinstein who stayed decades too long past their prime.)

He’s a good guy and will be a good Senator-people need to find some empathy and recognize that people aren’t robots.

They are focusing on him because he had a stroke from which he has not recovered fully and has been hospitalized 2 times in as many weeks.

He will never resign.
He won an incredibly hard-fought victory, even while recovering.
His doctors told him to stay off the road, but he kept going because he needed to win.
Good for him for sticking around. Depression is a beast. I'll bet half the US Senate has suffered from depression during their lifetimes.
The GOP trolls on this thread are inhumane. But I guess that's redundant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His doctors are saying he will be hospitalized for months now.

MONTHS.

Nope.

This is ridiculous. I’m a Democrat and I say Fetterman owes his constituents more than this. He owes specific details and actual honesty about his fitness. Occupying a seat without being able to fulfill its duties AND without a clear explanation as to when/why is unacceptable. If an R did this, I’d want a special election called yesterday.

As a Pennsylvanian, I am good with Fetterman. He has staff and support and he will continue to get things done - and he is not even remotely the only legislator to have suffered a stroke and remained in office.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel genuinely sorry for the man. I hope he makes a recovery back to baseline and is able to live out the rest of his life at home with his family.

+1. Apparently he’s expected to be hospitalized for at least another month. Poor guy.

[Anonymous]

The “left” in Pennsylvania is very reactionary populist in response to the far-right there. See Fetterman and Krasner.

Additionally, you have a lot of municipalities run by Dems; aside from Philly & Pittsburgh. York, Harrisburg, Reading, Allentown, Scranton, Erie and Lancaster all have Dem mayors. But I would not describe any of those places as liberal or progressive.