From the comments at the link;
“ I did hear that he has been undergoing inferon treatment for Hep C. This treatment is intensive chemo drug treatment and can produce slurring and slowness of speech and psychotic/irrational thinking. But, if this is the case, maybe he should not be acting as a Congressman while under treatment nor be on the Armed Forces Committee (which he is) and making decisions, due to the obvious impairment of his mental capacity.”
Agreed. If this is his problem, he needs to step down. He’s helping to make decisions that affect our national security on that committee. That’s scary!!
What they were talking about in that hearing is important stuff. They are talking about closing the Futenma air station, relocating it to the northern part of Okinawa near Camp Schwab and pre positioning some of the Marines on Okinawa to Guam. Not something that people mentally incapicatated or village idiots should be working on.
If you compare video clips and photos of the Congressman now and only a few years back it appears that he has aged considerably. He is obviously not well. Chronic liver failure - as a consequence of Hep B - can cause encephalopathy, and as you pointed out interferon treatment can cause a number of cerebral symptoms, where the most common side effects appear to be depression and an acute confusional state. The latter develops rapidly after initiation of high dose interferon therapy.
I just have to repeat what others already have asked: How sick and confused can you be and still be allowed to vote in the Congress? And what is this man’s staff doing?