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U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy breaks hip, to have surgery
AP ^ | June 30 | AP

Posted on 06/30/2022 4:21:15 AM PDT by RandFan

Edited on 06/30/2022 1:15:59 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont has broken a hip in a fall at his home and was to undergo surgery to repair it, his office said Thursday.

The 82-year-old Democrat fell Wednesday night in McLean, Virginia, the statement said. Doctors determined the best course of action would be to have surgery to repair the hip as soon as possible.


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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: leahy; leaky; leakyleahy
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To: Sacajaweau

“Leahy was “expected to make a full recovery and begin a healthy course of physical therapy immediately.”

No such thing as full recovery and just because his physical therapy begins immediately does mean he’ll be able to return to DC that soon. Hopefully, he recovers (not before mids) and retires. Senate actually favors republicans now.


21 posted on 06/30/2022 4:53:01 AM PDT by BushCountry (Jeffery Toobin is the only person at CNN that keeps his hands to himself.)
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To: BushCountry

He already announced his retirement before his accident.


22 posted on 06/30/2022 4:54:01 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: RandFan

Hope they knick an artery during surgery.


23 posted on 06/30/2022 4:56:45 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Delete FB, TWTR, GOOGL, AMZN, YHOO, Gmail/chrome. Use Gab, Brave + DDG, VPN, Freerepublic )
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To: RandFan

Couldn’t happen to a nicer Ahole.


24 posted on 06/30/2022 4:57:23 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: UNGN
"Wouldn’t that be cool?"

Next week's forecast, room temperature.

25 posted on 06/30/2022 4:57:37 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: RandFan

Leaky Leahy is still around ?


26 posted on 06/30/2022 4:58:58 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: mad_as_he$$

A broken pelvis is what finally did in my Father.


27 posted on 06/30/2022 5:00:50 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: BushCountry

Voting in the Senate must be in person....unlike the house. With any luck, well...don’t want to wish anyone to be bedridden for a long, long time...


28 posted on 06/30/2022 5:02:20 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: RandFan

I broke my hip two years ago at 67. Leahy is done for at 82. Lot’s of rehab.


29 posted on 06/30/2022 5:02:44 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: csvset

Deep State’s Frankenstein factory ensures its creatures can take a licking and keep on ticking.


30 posted on 06/30/2022 5:03:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Durbin

Almost 48 years in the Senate. Term limits are WAY overdue.

Bernie Sanders is the other US Senator from Vermont. Another superannuated, doctrinaire, and overly opinionated blowhard, with no accomplishments other than getting elected to office repeatedly in a small state. But he does make Patrick Leahy look like a “moderate”.

If being a Nazi is more moderate than being a Communist. After all, Communists consider Nazis to be “right-wing”, but both are command-and-control regimes. And both make promises they have no intention of keeping, if it were even possible.


31 posted on 06/30/2022 5:04:35 AM PDT by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: mewzilla

From 2021...

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/27/patrick-leahy-health-463080

He was hospitalized for “muscle spasms”.

Okaaaay....

Now I’m really wondering what caused his fall.


32 posted on 06/30/2022 5:05:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: RandFan

Leahy was born blind in one eye.


Interesting. Never knew that.

I still think he is an a$$ though.


33 posted on 06/30/2022 5:08:42 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: statered

This means Ds are now in the minority, as its very unlikely he’ll be able to cast another vote. Certainly not before mid-terms.

The senate has not yet allowed proxy voting and couldn’t adopt it now.

Big news, unless one of ours goes down.


34 posted on 06/30/2022 5:09:24 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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To: RandFan

35 posted on 06/30/2022 5:12:58 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: HYPOCRACY

“Hope it goes downhill fast. Effin POS.”

Quickly into pneumonia perhaps?😎


36 posted on 06/30/2022 5:14:47 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: RandFan

Broken hips are sometimes the beginning of the end. At that age you can come back but it’s hard.


37 posted on 06/30/2022 5:18:22 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: RandFan

Fauci seriously I’ll with COVID, and now Patrick Leahy to undergo significant orthopedic surgery? (Not.... Saying it...)


38 posted on 06/30/2022 5:24:11 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: RandFan
The 82-year-old Democrat fell Wednesday night in McLean, Virginia...

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Leahy is the longest-serving sitting senator.

Another argument for term limits. Leaky Leahy....

39 posted on 06/30/2022 5:25:33 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: Tallguy

Ill...


40 posted on 06/30/2022 5:26:11 AM PDT by Tallguy
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