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Congress’ pharmacist hints some members have Alzheimer’s, backpedals furiously
Ars Technica ^ | October 11, 2017 | Beth Mole

Posted on 10/12/2017 7:05:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Considering the average age in Congress, I’d be willing to be Alzheimer’s meds are probably among his most popular deliveries up there.

And this guy was not speaking in the hypothetical. He knows there are people in Congress who don’t even know what day of the week it is.


21 posted on 10/12/2017 8:20:43 AM PDT by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: arthurus

Not at all a surprise to me. I watched them wheel Robert Byrd out of there for the final time as a drooling vegetable. We really need Term Limits that include a mandatory retirement age.


22 posted on 10/12/2017 8:29:25 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: pgkdan

McCain is not a Democrat - he’s a Republican, who is no longer afraid to tell you who the Republicans are and what they want to do to your country.

Wake up.


23 posted on 10/12/2017 8:31:17 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like)
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To: Jim Noble

That’s my point. The Republican party is a charade.


24 posted on 10/12/2017 8:34:50 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: pgkdan

Don’t forget Thad Cochran....when they screwed Mississippi over to defeat McDaniel and keep Cochran, there was some shots of him that made one wonder if he hadn’t already lost his mind....McCain is just bat shit crazy and has been since he got out of the POW camp - maybe even before that.


25 posted on 10/12/2017 8:49:14 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wednesday morning, Stat published a piece on the quaint, old-school pharmacy that hand-delivers prescription medications to our hardworking Congress members on the Hill each day.

Without naming names (to eliminate any claim of violations of privacy) it should, must and critically as a national survival necessity, be mandatory to make statistics about this horrible revelation subject to FOIA requests, or simply as a statistic essential to the functioning of a healthy representative democracy:

How many (no names, just numbers) members of the bicameral legislative branch of our government are being medicated for diseases compromising normal mental and judgement functions (as well as national security)?

Related questions:

Is this pharmacy a funded budget item?
When was this pharmacy originally created or authorized?
Who originally proposed the bill (law) creating this pharmacy, or authorizing its functions?

And the alt-left members of Congress have the metaphorical balls (anonymously) to question Trump's sanity?

Seriously?

26 posted on 10/12/2017 8:50:40 AM PDT by publius911 (Seriously??)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Horsepucky.


27 posted on 10/12/2017 8:55:21 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: caligatrux
And this guy was not speaking in the hypothetical. He knows there are people in Congress who don’t even know what day of the week it is.

How banal is it to put it into words?

Suspicions confirmed!!!!!!!!

28 posted on 10/12/2017 8:58:28 AM PDT by publius911 (Seriously??)
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To: trebb

On Cochran’s first day back in the Capitol he was supposed to go to the GOP luncheon. He got lost and confused, ended up at the Democrat luncheon...and tried to stay there.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/211614-cochran-gets-lost-on-way-to-senate-lunch


29 posted on 10/12/2017 9:02:03 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The last story about Congress and pharmaceuticals was that the most prescribed med for Congress out of Bethesda Naval Hospital was viagra.

That's after any Kennedy Klan sleep medications are excluded.

30 posted on 10/12/2017 9:03:12 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: trebb

A failed effort to produce a “Manchurian Candidate.”


31 posted on 10/12/2017 9:13:03 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: Buckeye McFrog

No. Just single term limits and no retirement benefits. You come. You go. You don’t take anything with you.


32 posted on 10/12/2017 9:20:09 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I predict this thread will be the most explosive ever on Free Republic. once it gets legs.

Or it certainly should be.
Many of us have seriously questioned the mental health of many members of Congress; justifiably.

Didn't the insane exist during the founding of the Republic? What a monumental lapse in the failure of the Framers to address this "little" detail!

33 posted on 10/12/2017 9:25:53 AM PDT by publius911 (Seriously??)
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To: Fantasywriter

Yep - Barbour and company decided they wanted a mental deficient over a real conservative - Cochran is probably getting a LOT of Alzheimer meds from the drug pushers that keep the old regime on their feet.


34 posted on 10/12/2017 9:29:48 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb

McConnell has so much to answer for. His favorability is in the toilet, and still he hangs onto his leadership role with a death grip. Hopefully Trump will figure out a way to dislodge him.


35 posted on 10/12/2017 9:44:17 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter
Jumping Jehosephat!
The light over my head just clicked on.
I may not be the smartest guy on Free Republic, but since I am not easily intimidated, I'm not shy about admitting that.

Why the timing of this huge thread bomb, which even Freepers seem not to have yet fully grasped?

Could it be that sneaky magnificent b*s***d Trump and his love of 4D chess?

Ya think?
Almost no discussion.
Almost impossible to believe.

Not just one, but two "legal drug" pharmacies for the exclusive use of 435+50 potentially insane (and drugged) elected criminals?
And almost zero discussion?
Not a peep out of anyone I've heard so far, not even Rush L. ...

36 posted on 10/12/2017 11:01:03 AM PDT by publius911 (Seriously??)
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To: caligatrux
And this guy was not speaking in the hypothetical. He knows there are people in Congress who don’t even know what day of the week it is.

You mean in addition to the obvious Congressional Black Caucus?

37 posted on 10/12/2017 11:07:39 AM PDT by publius911 (Seriously??)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Horsepucky.

Ummmm...

How about a bit more evidence of actual thought?

38 posted on 10/12/2017 11:13:37 AM PDT by publius911 (Seriously??)
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To: publius911

I have no facts either way. I don’t trust these clarifications anyway, I go with the odds and odds are there are some. It’s part of aging. Not everyone gets it but odds are at least someone has it.

Do you actually believe nobody in Congress has Alzheimers disease? I wouldn’t be surprised to find out my Senator Jim Inhoff has it. He’s all but gone dark this last year, especially pulling a Harrison Ford not far back.

McCain had part of his frontal lobes removed and he’s running around there.


39 posted on 10/12/2017 11:42:38 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: publius911

I couldn’t agree with you more. This information is a political H-bomb. If Trump had nothing to do with the original comment, he’ll have plenty to do with the follow up. This is a DC earthquake—the kind where the aftershocks are worse than the initial jolt.

Rush may be a tad shy of drug stories/issues. He’s dealt with this kind of thing firsthand.


40 posted on 10/12/2017 12:03:59 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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