Posted on 02/15/2010 12:28:16 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
I've just heard from an impeccable source that Barbara Mikulski, the Democratic Senator who is up for reelection this November, will choose to retire. Mrs. Mikulski is expected to make her formal announcement in the next few days.
Mrs. Mikulski seriously fractured her right ankle last fall just prior to Edward M. Kennedy's death. Due to the severity of the fracture, she had to have open reduction surgery, that included the insertion of pins, as well as the use of special surgical boots, during recovery. She had tried to arrive in time for Mr. Kennedy's funeral but was turned away.
Her recovery has been exceptionally slow and she is evidently still in a great deal of pain. Reportedly, she has told her physician that she does not desire to seek reelection. Additionally, friends and family have been saying in the near future she will announce her retirement. Because of the very slow recovery, she has been forced to use a wheelchair, a walker or a cane in order to get around.
One of her complaints is that the health insurance that is provided for Congress is "poor" with high deductibles and "limitations" on coverage. My contact tells me that she told an aide that she should have inserted in the ObamaCare bill an amendment to improve Congressional health insurance! Mrs. Mikulski was first elected to the Senate in 1986, and thus is a very senior member of the Democratic caucus. Despite this seniority, she has never been offered any important chairmanships or leadership positions. Born on July 20, 1936, she is 74 years old, come July...it is perhaps fitting that she has choose this year to retire.
Her possible announcement along with that of Evan Bayh and Byron Dorgan of ND will the third Democratic Senator announcing plans to retire.
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....or talk again if we're lucky!
OUCH...she looks like an obese whale. Wonder what her “partner” looks like? Hopefully with a “lezzie” partner, neither one of them added to the gene pool.
“She has that boob belt thing goin’ on... “
I’m thinking that you could move the belt down a foot and it would still be just below her boobs.
Wooohoo! Saw about Bayh at work - and now this!!!!
Flee at once - all is revealed.....LOLOLOL!
...BITE me, Glendening
Cheers!
Now people in MD are not going to like this. Maybe Steele should resign and run for this seat. That way we could get a new chairman, say, Ken Blackwell!
That’s what they said about Kennedy ownership -g-
Yah! the lady Zelda from Poltergeist!
Can I add the House of MISreperestatives Waters, Lee & Pelosi?
No matter what happens, the collective IQ of the Senate will be higher just for her absence.
When I was pinged to this I literally checked to see if this was satire
Hahaha I just said that
Exactly HOW is she related to Bubba again, they are all destroyer’s
Mayhaps they found out Barry is not a citizen & none what to be associated
LOL did you see you posted # 117! play that number GF!
LOLROTF...wasn’t ready for that HA!
See Barry was an eggocentric
Our answer to Barry was Steele & tada he is stuck on the “I”
Andrew Klavan Presents: President Me! The Musical
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckJqUXOTJ9Q
I wish I knew, I worked for Keyes camPAIN against Barry
Yeah....is someone directing this Exodus..like Rauhm?? Humm...do they know somethings coming we don’t, because they are on the inside and do know???
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