{"id":9338,"date":"2006-12-14T11:36:43","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T16:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9338.html"},"modified":"2006-12-14T11:36:43","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T16:36:43","slug":"johnson-recovering-without-complication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/johnson-recovering-without-complication\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson &#8216;recovering without complication&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/14\/AR2006121400379.html\">latest<\/a> report on Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) sounds relatively encouraging.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) underwent emergency surgery overnight to repair bleeding inside his brain and was &#8220;recovering without complication&#8221; this morning, according to the U.S. Capitol physician.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who has spent considerable time visiting with Johnson and his family, said the senator &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/POLITICS\/blogs\/politicalticker\/2006\/12\/sen-minority-leader-reid-johnson.html\">looked very, very good<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN&#8217;s chief medical correspondent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/POLITICS\/blogs\/politicalticker\/2006\/12\/dr-sanjay-gupta-long-road-ahead-for.html\">noted<\/a> that Johnson should expect a &#8220;long road&#8221; to recovery, which could take &#8220;months at a minimum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Given the seriousness of the ailment, of course, the key word is, of course, &#8220;recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just a quick word about the politics of all of this. I hope that it&#8217;s obvious that Johnson&#8217;s well-being is of the utmost significance, and I&#8217;m sure everyone is extends their best wishes to the senator and his family. I suppose at a certain level, that could be the end of it, and political implications would be irrelevant, but that&#8217;s just not the case. He&#8217;s an important political figure in an important political time, and it&#8217;s only natural that observers consider the political consequences associated with his illness. That&#8217;s not callous or placing partisanship above people, that&#8217;s just a recognition of the political environment in which we operate.<\/p>\n<p>Considering &#8220;what happens next&#8221; seems to me to be a perfectly normal reaction to the circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest report on Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) sounds relatively encouraging. Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) underwent emergency surgery overnight to repair bleeding inside his brain and was &#8220;recovering without complication&#8221; this morning, according to the U.S. Capitol physician. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who has spent considerable time visiting with Johnson and his family, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}