CNN/AP: Senate Democratic leader Reid: Senator Johnson 'going to be just fine'

[DeepModem Mom]

Reid: Sen. Johnson 'going to be just fine'
December 17, 2006

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Tim Johnson has shown significant improvement after brain surgery and doctors say "everything is going to be just fine," Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said Sunday.

Yet when asked whether the 59-year-old South Dakota Democrat was conscious, Reid said in a television interview: "I'm not a doctor. I have heard and talked to his family. You should talk to them. It's not appropriate to talk to me about that."

Reid, who has visited Johnson frequently after the surgery Wednesday following a brain hemorrhage, said "he's doing very well. ... His improvement has been significant."

Johnson has responded to voices, opened his eyes and moved his limbs.

Surgeons at the George Washington University Hospital have said Johnson was experiencing post-surgery swelling in his brain, but they said that was normal.

"Doctors tell us everything is going to be just fine," Reid said....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/17/johnson.ap/index.html

[truthisfreedom]

1. God is on our side...

despite the right-wing religious extremists that wanted the good Senator dead.

[SoFlaJet]

3. On The Huffington Post

someone wrote a blog about how Dick Cheney is praying for senator Johnson...to die-just like all the RW extremists are in their black hearts-even if they won't admit it.How do I know this? well i was here on DU when Paul Wellstone's plane went down and you should have heard the stuff that was being said by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and the Freeps-and this was on THE DAY IT HAPPENED-they were much bolder and brazen then

[wakeme2008]

2. IMHO that is a good answer and if he is not worried, I am

not worried... :)

[applegrove]

4. Thank you - thank you!

[Judi Lynn]

5. Hope the good news will keep on coming for Senator Johnson.

Wish the media would stop pushing Harry Reid to tell them things the family should answer. Very tacky on their parts.

It's reassuring to hear Senator Reid is keeping a close eye on this man. The more attention he has, the better.

[raysr]

6. I never HATED republicks

prior to Bush, but I was real close after Reagan, but then I mostly hated him. But now, I don't see them as politcal party, I see them as a force that's out to change this country into what their warped visions dictate. Hence, the HATE. Goes for christians too, I had no bad opinions toward christians before Bush, live and let live, but all that's changed now, I see them as a threat to my grown children and my grandchildren.