Were there calls for Arlen Specter to step down?

[Patsy Stone]

A brain tumor, Hodgkin's and its ensuing chemotherapy, heart bypass operation.

Anyone mention him at all in this discussion?

[xultar]

1. No one is saying Johnson should step down.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

2. Yet.....

[louis-t]

3. Don't worry, they will. nt

[Patsy Stone]

8. Didn't say they were.

Juts asking what the reaction was about Specter's health issues and how the Congress and the media reacted to them.

[TlalocW]

4. There probably wasn't from either side of the aisle

But you can bet the republican MSM will be beating this drum, once again ignoring their own hypocrisy.

TlalocW

[Red Zelda]

5. Only from those of us in Pa.

who didn't vote for him.

[LynneSin]

6. What about when Jesse Helms was sidelined for about 6 months

or Strom Thurmond or even my own Joe Biden. Craig Thomas is sidelined with treatment for Leukemia, I don't see anyone screaming for him to retire (and btw - his governor is a democrat)

This is all bullshit - this wouldn't even be news if it wasn't for the fact that IF something happened it could change the power control in the senate

[Norquist Nemesis]

7. Bingo!

And if anyone sees Cheney going in and out of Sen. Johnson's room, well...

:hi:

I'm trying really hard to hold back that anxious, sick to my stomach feeling. But it really is a unique situation. One seat swings the power. Who could have guessed that out of 100 Senators from 50 states, it boils down to a Governor in a state without statutory restrictions.

Joe Lieberman is soooooooooooo yesterday!