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I agree with you. Having been in a drug-induced coma and on a ventilator, Johnson will never return to the Senate. The issue is how much function he can recover for his remaining years with his family.

But he will not resign and the full story will not be told.

We'll have to work to take this seat at the next election. And maybe that's as it should be. In the meantime, if the people of South Dakota feel they're being shortchanged, they can always make an issue of this.

In the meantime, if the people of South Dakota feel they're being shortchanged, they can always make an issue of this.

Good point. South Dakota can remove him if they feel their interests aren't being represented - we cannot tell them what to do.

Thune almost beat Johnson in 2000 but they came up with a box of votes from a reservation at the last minute and he won by less than 500 votes. It could have resulted in an automatic recount but Thune was too classy for that. One Democrat was found with a voting machine and ballots in her trunk and went to jail. In 2002, they brought in federal election monitors and Thune won. If an election is held properly, a Republican could win that seat.

I question whether if will be capable of speech again given the brain injury and time on the ventilator. I cannot imagine his energy level ever getting up to the demands of a Senate job. However, the Dems care more about THEIR majority than the needs of one state--which should be reason enough for the voters of South Dakota to NEVER VOTE DEMOCRAT AGAIN!