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Anonymous ID: 4db918 Jan. 27, 2021, 12:18 p.m. No.12733715   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bringing-a-gun-to-a-knife-fight/

 

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President Obama once said that if your opponents bring a (rhetorical) knife to a fight, you should bring a gun.

Anonymous ID: 4db918 Jan. 27, 2021, 12:26 p.m. No.12733803   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3824 >>3827 >>3839 >>3856 >>4108 >>4232 >>4288 >>4345

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/27/patrick-leahy-health-463080

 

Leahy's hospitalization shows Dems' majority hangs by thread

 

1/27/2021 11:26 AM EST

 

Here’s how fragile Democrats’ Senate majority is: The brief Tuesday hospitalization of Senate pro tem Patrick Leahy prompted nearly everyone in the Capitol to research Vermont’s Senate vacancy laws, just in case.

 

Leahy (D-Vt.), who has served in the Senate since 1975, returned to work on Wednesday seemingly unscathed. The most senior Democratic senator said he was given a “clean bill of health” after being briefly hospitalized on Tuesday evening after suffering muscle spasms. The 80-year-old Democrat also indicated he's cleared to perform his normal duties

Anonymous ID: 4db918 Jan. 27, 2021, 12:28 p.m. No.12733824   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3827 >>3856 >>4108 >>4232 >>4288 >>4345

>>12733803

>https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/27/patrick-leahy-health-463080

 

https://twitter.com/LMRHIM/status/1354525473515175952

 

Dr. Lauren Morando Rhim

@LMRHIM

Good to see Vermont Senators continue to be on-brand: “I had some muscle spasms. And normally I would have said ‘to hell with it, to heck with it,’ but they didn't stop,” Leahy said. “Leahy's hospitalization shows Dems' majority hangs by thread https://politi.co/3iShSe7

@politico

Leahy gets ‘clean bill of health’ after suffering muscle spasms

Patrick Leahy also said he's confident he can carry out the rest of his Senate term.

politico.com

2:23 PM · Jan 27, 2021

Anonymous ID: 4db918 Jan. 27, 2021, 12:30 p.m. No.12733839   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3856 >>4108 >>4232 >>4288 >>4345

>>12733803

>https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/27/patrick-leahy-health-463080

 

Each state has its own vacancy laws — and in Vermont any vacancy would be filled within six months by a special election. When Sanders was under consideration for a Biden Cabinet seat, GOP Gov. Phil Scott said he would probably appoint a short-term replacement to caucus with Schumer.

 

“Sen. Sanders has caucused with the Democrats,” Scott said last year, adding he would consider “a more left-leaning type of independent that would obviously caucus with the Democrats."

 

Forgetting all that, Leahy said he feels good enough to consider another run for office, though he said he wouldn’t consider that until next winter. Known for snapping photos of Capitol denizens and showcasing a dry sense of humor, Leahy feigned surprise when asked about having to decide whether to pursue a ninth term: “I might better start checking in to this."