ABC News reports:
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman on Wednesday checked himself into a Washington hospital “to receive treatment for clinical depression,” his chief of staff said on Thursday. “While John has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks,” Adam Jentleson said in a statement.
Jentleson said that Fetterman was evaluated on Monday by Congress’ attending physician, Dr. Brian P. Monahan, who “recommended inpatient care” at Walter Reed hospital. “John agreed, and he is receiving treatment on a voluntary basis.” “After examining John, the doctors at Walter Reed told us that John is getting the care he needs, and will soon be back to himself,” Jentleson said.
This comes shortly after Fetterman had been hospitalized for “light-headedness.” So, so predictably, the Democratic propaganda agents in the mainstream media are spinning this “time to pay the piper” story as a good thing. “Fetterman draws praise for getting help for depression” cheered the AP. “John Fetterman is openly discussing his treatment for depression. Few politicians do,” gushed Vox. Wow! Isn’t it wonderful that this guy is unable to do his job, after anyone who questioned his fitness during the campaign was attacked as being “ablest”?
The announcement raised other questions. Clinical depression is a serious condition: Fetterman never revealed to voters that he experienced depression off and on throughout his life. That information was relevant to voters’ decision, but his office only revealed it now to lessen suspicions that the current problem was related to his stroke. But just last week, the same spokesman blamed his previous hospitalization on the stroke, saying,
“What you’re supposed to do to recover from this is do as little as possible [but Fetterman] “was forced to do as much as possible — he had to get back to the campaign trail. It’s hard to claw that back.”
He didn’t have to get back to the campaign trail. Fetterman chose to do so, knowing, one assumes, that he was placing his full cognitive recovery at risk. he decided that power and stopping a Republican take-over of the U.S. Senate was worth pretending he would be fit to serve there, even when the very act of campaigning made it more likely that he wouldn’t be fit. He allowed his campaign to use a contrived doctor’s letter to reassure the public about his health rather than release his medical records. And, as Harry “Romney lost, didn’t he?” Reid would say if he weren’t being turned on a spit in Hell, “It worked!”
Fetterman defeated Dr. Oz, who was no great shakes himself, but he was at least not physically and mentally impaired like too many current Democratic office holders. Johns Hopkins says that the first three months after a stroke are the most critical for recovery. Fetterman chose not to do what he needed to do during those three months, which was to withdraw from the race in both his own best interests and in the best interests Pennsylvania, which needs and deserves a fully functional representative in the U.S. Senate. Now Fetterman realizes that nine months after the stroke he may be permanently disabled, and will never have the cognitive abilities he once had and now requires in the most important stage of his career.
No wonder he’s depressed. I would never wish clinical depression on anyone. As I have mentioned here before, it runs in my family. Three cousins committed suicide. My mother was clinically depressed. One of my college room mates also killed himself: it’s often a fatal disease, and one that most people do not understand. I am sorry that the Senator is depressed, however, he is a man who decided that the ends justified the means, and now, after his unethical trade achieved the desired result, he has discovered that the means have some nasty side-effects he hadn’t planned on.
That’s often what happens to Machiavellians. My sympathy for John Fetterman is minimal.
Ethics Alarms 
I love the way the Dems and their enablers are spinning this situation. It appears to go like this: Diversity is good. Fetterman is ill and has all sorts of problems. People who are ill and have all sorts of problems are a minority in the population. Again, diversity is good. Therefore, having a person who is ill and having all sorts of problems in the Senate will improve the Senate, make it look more like America. Thus, Q.E.D., having John Fetterman in the Senate is actually progress. If you are against Fetterman being in the Senate, you are against people who are ill and having all sorts of problems. You’re a mean person and a bad person. Think what a great thing having a convicted felon in the Senate would do for its diversity. It would be wonderful.
The insidious part is that anyone who points out his clear health problems will also be vilified for stigmatizing mental illness.
Lefties always have a retort ready to respond to anything that, on its face, makes sense. They see deep meanings in everything. They’re perceptive. Everyone else isn’t.
Speaking of gushing over Fetterman from the fully consumed progressive borg…
John Fetterman Showing Nation What Quiet Leadership Looks Like
It’s pretty easy to be “quiet” when the language center of your brain has been scrambled like an omelet…
I would never wish clinical depression or a stroke on anyone. Not sure what qualifications his wife has to sit in his position, but it seems this was a well-thought maneuver to have his wife take over his position. Our government is failing rapidly.
Once again, the true facts are always dismissed without any consequences of telling lies. It is the constant allowable patterns of lies and hiding vital information which cause immense costly and physical harm to the citizens. And people wonder why we are getting nowhere except watching the rapid pace of our government’s disintegration into communism.
I’ll be hard nosed on this. Everyone can become depressed. All humans.
But leaders have *no right* to be depressed.
Full Stop.
Does that mean leaders don’t get depressed? Of course not.
But it does mean that leaders are OBLIGATED to get through it and “put on a game face” regardless or resign.
I’m truly sick of Dems and their mouthpieces (i.e., most MSM, at least those with good GDI score) getting away with things like this and the crap they’ve done, especially the last 6-7 yrs.
The amount of hypocrisy, gaslighting, blatant lies and deception, etc. that they can do and commit and never called out for is staggering!
The fact that people don’t know or don’t care just makes me very pessimistic about the future of our country.
Jack wrote:
“Fetterman draws praise for getting help for depression” cheered the AP. “John Fetterman is openly discussing his treatment for depression. Few politicians do,” gushed Vox. Wow! Isn’t it wonderful that this guy is unable to do his job, after anyone who questioned his fitness during the campaign was attacked as being “ablest”?
It amazes me how easily the Left media ignores their campaign hypocrisy as if that was so 1985. It wasn’t even six months ago.
Is it any wonder people distrust the media? They are gaslighting the hell out of Americans on every single political issue or question, and act as if they just started talking about it today for the first time. Nothing they said before maters one iota, as far as they are concerned.
Talk about a conveniently short memory!
He didn’t have to get back to the campaign trail. Fetterman chose to do so, knowing, one assumes, that he was placing his full cognitive recovery at risk.
Not when you’re a darling of the Left. It takes a village — a village to ignore relevant problems, assure voters that their candidate is up to the job even when it’s obvious he isn’t, a village to gaslight and dissemble in order to prevent an EVIL Republican from winning a senate seat.
So what if he has the cognitive and emotional stability of the late Michael Jackson? He’s got the right letter behind his name, and that’s all you need these days. Ability to actually perform is for suckers, as long as you can win that seat.
I am sorry that the Senator is depressed, however, he is a man who decided that the ends justified the means, and now, after his unethical trade achieved the desired result, he has discovered that the means have some nasty side-effects he hadn’t planned on.
I think maybe you gave him too much credit. I would not be surprised to learn he knew he wasn’t up to the job, but felt obligated to go through with it to get the seat in Democrat hands.
I have only the barest sympathy for him. As you say, depression is a horrible and often fatal disease that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. But don’t ask me to feel sorry for a person who places party politics before his own health, and knowingly compromises the fair representation of those who elected him.
I have sympathy for him as a human being but as a politician, he’s a fucking liar by omission.
“he’s a fucking liar by omission.”
I posted just that to our pal’s site.
The…um…RESPONSE?
Priceless!
Boy, that’s Trump Derangement.
I thought this situation sounded vaguely familiar. Does the name Thomas Eagleton ring a bell? From Politico:
“On July 25, 1972, Missouri Sen. Thomas Eagleton — newly chosen as George McGovern’s running mate — disclosed that he had been treated three times for “exhaustion” and “depression” and had received psychiatric care and electric shock treatment. McGovern, the Democratic presidential nominee, expressed full support for his running mate — “1,000 percent” in an ill-chosen phrase — but a week later dropped him from the ticket. (Eagleton remained in the Senate and was twice re-elected).”
It’s a problem. The fact that there is a stigma associated with mental illness doesn’t lessen the reality that voters have a right to know about it, as well as other potentially chronic and disabling conditions. Abe Lincoln had very serious depression issues; so did Teddy Roosevelt. Polk, in all likelihood. They were all excellent Presidents.
Agreed. I only wish to point out that how in just over 50 years the Dems went from quickly dumping someone with little reason other than “how it will look” to a cover-up and attacks on anyone who called attention to the candidate’s issue and pushed ahead caring little for the health of their candidate.