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McConnell ‘chomping at the bit’ to
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Posted By: Hazymac, 3/23/2023 1:35:38 PM

Three closely watched ailing senators remain away from the Capitol this week and it’s not clear when they will return. One of them, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, has spoken directly with some members of his leadership team and conveyed to them he is doing well and anxious to get back to work. Meanwhile, Sen. John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, continues to make progress in his treatment for clinical depression at Walter Reed Medical Center while also staying in close contact with key members of his staff, according to a source familiar with the situation. Fetterman has not said when he plans to return to the Senate. The senator entered treatment

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Hazymac 3/23/2023 1:38:10 PM (No. 1431777)
Naturally, CNN's four authors of this article didn't catch the error in the headline: It's champing at the bit, not chomping at the bit. Amazing how many get this one wrong, similar to confusing loose for lose.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: itsonlyme 3/23/2023 1:48:38 PM (No. 1431784)
Darn Tootin!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: K620 3/23/2023 1:50:59 PM (No. 1431786)
I was unaware that turtles could chomp, or even champ, at a bit.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: GreatGreyhounds 3/23/2023 2:01:52 PM (No. 1431795)
Guess the Turtle can't wait to push more of Biden's Agenda through, eh?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: WhamDBambam 3/23/2023 2:07:18 PM (No. 1431800)
I've got something that McConnell can chomp on...
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Reply 6 - Posted by: john56 3/23/2023 2:13:28 PM (No. 1431809)
There are intensive care nursing homes with more active residents than the US Senate (and the Oval Office).
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Californian 3/23/2023 2:18:44 PM (No. 1431812)
I'm still betting Fetter an is in a coma. Why did his wife take their kids to Canada, anyway? That vanished from the news very quickly.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Halfvast Conspirator 3/23/2023 2:22:28 PM (No. 1431814)
"champing at the bit" FIFY
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Daisymay 3/23/2023 2:25:07 PM (No. 1431816)
With the exception of Fetterman (who should never been elected to anything, due to his Health), it seems AGE is catching up with the Senate. Maybe there should be an age where members of Congress MUST retire! Maybe 65 would be good!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 3/23/2023 2:42:01 PM (No. 1431826)
The US Senate reminds me of the Chinese CCP. There are a number of Chinese officials in their upper 80s and 90s that are confined to wheelchairs that have people moving them to wherever they are supposed to be. Saw pictures of these guys. The lights are on, but there is nobody home. We are going down the same path.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: hershey 3/23/2023 2:44:22 PM (No. 1431829)
Perhaps if we had term limits by age, this wouldn't happen...how many of them are old? I'm 82 and I wouldn't want to be doing that job...especially, if like most of them, I had turned a $174,000 a year salary into a multi million buck nest egg....
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 3/23/2023 2:46:02 PM (No. 1431832)
Don't waste your time, Turtle. You aren't welcome anymore.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: RayLRiv 3/23/2023 2:49:44 PM (No. 1431836)
As blazingly fast as turtles move - this really means Senator Turtle will be further delayed in returning.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: GrandmaP 3/23/2023 2:57:08 PM (No. 1431843)
Anyone else think wonder if Turtle’s accident was a lot more serious than a concussion from a fall, even at his age.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: privateer 3/23/2023 2:59:39 PM (No. 1431847)
Chomping at the bit to be gobbling at the trough.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: red1066 3/23/2023 3:03:07 PM (No. 1431851)
Take your time turtle. In fact, how about thinking about retirement while your laid up.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: GoodDeal 3/23/2023 3:05:02 PM (No. 1431854)
Yes chomping at the bit as an old donkey to return to demonize conservatives and give Biden and Schumer everything they want and more.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Tom Paine 3/23/2023 3:21:15 PM (No. 1431864)
If the trio cared about America, they would all resign. But they don't.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Strike3 3/23/2023 3:53:27 PM (No. 1431885)
Power is an addictive force and McConnell has not had a fix since he bumped his confused head, which was confused before he bumped it. Maybe Fetterman can fill in for Mitch until his brain gets unscrambled and he remembers that he was elected by Republicans..
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Reply 20 - Posted by: Kate318 3/23/2023 3:55:21 PM (No. 1431889)
“And we’re not doing much here.” Unfortunately, Sen. Cornyn, truer words were never spoken by a GOPe member of the Senate.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: jinx 3/23/2023 4:31:28 PM (No. 1431937)
I just wonder if he had been drinking too much wine when he fell hard enough to put him in the hospital and rehab.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: thomthomp 3/23/2023 4:59:33 PM (No. 1431955)
Reference to his "leadership team" in the Senate is a cruel joke. Is Chuck Shumer on his team? There is NO Republican leadership in the Senate.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: earlybird 3/23/2023 5:02:41 PM (No. 1431956)
Bla Bla Bla… All should resign.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: broken01 3/24/2023 8:24:39 AM (No. 1432315)
Apparently, senate RINO McConnell flunkies Thune and Wicker got tired of fielded calls from Up Chuckie Schumer's office. Chuckie was wondering when his hand holding, booze drinking, back room dealling, America screwing buddy Addison was getting out of the hospital.
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