http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2023/02/18/is-sen-john-fetterman-not-well-enough-to-perform-americas-easiest-job/
Our purpose here isn’t to kick around Sen. John Fetterman, who as you know hospitalized himself with depression this week. No, our purpose is to name and shame those who tried to shame us by asking during the 2020 campaign if Fetterman, having had a stroke, was up to the job of senator. We were told that it was “ableist” to even suggest such a thing — how many senators wear hearing aids? — and the media has been shamed even this week for suggesting that Fetterman has “special” needs, not just “needs.”
Jennifer Senior announced Friday she’s published a piece on Fetterman for The Atlantic:
Jennifer Senior (@JenSeniorNY) ~ Just wrote a quick column about John Fetterman. My theory: It's very hard to have to perform your okayness, if you are not, in public life. 1/3
{Ass kissing continues}
Politics is an Iron Man triathlon of outward-facing obligations: constituent sit-downs, committee meetings, caucus lunches, votes on the floor, home-state parades and fairs and school visits and town halls and barbecues where you’re asked to don puffy chef’s hats. 2/3
{Ass kissing continues}
"Fetterman has basically been forced to contend with the effects of a severe brain trauma while working an absurdly demanding job in one of the most polarized and toxic political climates the country has ever known." 3/3
http://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/john-fetterman-checks-into-hospital-clinical-depression-stroke/673112/
Keep that in mind: politics is “an Iron Man triathlon” of public obligations.
An “absurdly demanding job.”
Remember that last October, Fetterman told MSNBC’s Joy Reid, “‘I will be much, much better in January, but Oz will still be a fraud.” Well, it’s February, and Fetterman’s not “much, much better” as promised.
Now to the shaming: Here’s David Sirota also last October saying that basically a monkey could do Fetterman’s job:
David Sirota (@davidsirota) ~ Here’s a truth few will say aloud but I will:
Being a senator is America’s easiest job. You just have to sit there & say “yay” or “nay.”
This notion that @JohnFetterman can’t do that job because he’s recovering from a health event is moronic — and everyone in media knows it.
10:21 PM · Oct 25, 2022
It’s a triathlon ... it’s absurdly demanding ... it’s America’s easiest job.
Noam Blum (@neontaster) ~ Any comment on this @davidsirota? Or are you going to continue ignoring this story?
jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) ~ They all got very quiet all of a sudden.
DSC, Esq (@DSC_Esq) ~ His job is done. Puff piece to distract from reality, push down any concerns and get him elected. Move along. No more to see.
George Purcell (@gpurcell) ~ In an long line of absurd water carriers, that one was at the top of the list.
Beezy (@BeezyManzell) ~ If David thinks being a senator is easy and just a matter of submitting votes, he's a child.
He used to work on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, so he must know something about the job. Maybe that’s how he learned how easy it is.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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