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"It's not clear when senator can go back to work after 5 fractured ribs, lung contusions."
(NEWSER) Sen. Rand Paul has painful injuries, including five fractured ribs, after being assaulted at his Kentucky home Friday and it could be a while before he can go back to work, a spokesman says.
Paul "has five rib fractures including three displaced fractures," adviser Doug Stafford said in a statement to the Bowling Green Daily News.
"This type of injury is caused by high velocity severe force. It is not clear exactly how soon he will return to work, as the pain is considerable, as is the difficulty in getting around, including flying."
Stafford said the senator is also suffering from lung contusions caused by the displaced fractures, and "this type of injury is also accompanied by severe pain that can last weeks to months."
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Politico reports that if the senator does end up being absent from Washington, DC, for a significant amount of time,
it could complicate the legislative agenda of Senate Republicans, who have a slender majority of 52 votes.
Joe941
(2,848 posts)... you can bet he will not miss that "opportunity".
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)seriously wondering if he wasn't hit by a car.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)I would lay odds he was sleeping with or trying to sleep with the guys wife. This dude was pissed
Girard442
(6,059 posts)Otherwise, it's hard to see why the perp isn't getting hung by the nards.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)😁
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)to administer a severe ass-kicking.
B2G
(9,766 posts)And if the Senator was a Democrat, you'd be in meltdown mode right now.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It was a joke. I don't really give a damn about Rand Paul's well being and I'm glad he got what he deserved. He's a horrible person.
B2G
(9,766 posts)yet know nothing about what provoked the attack.
Physically attacking someone from behind while they are mowing their grass and breaking 5 of his ribs is NOT acceptable. I don't care what his politics are, or what he may have done.
Violence like this isn't ever OK. It's just not.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Some people only understand physical threats and eminent harm.
It's why we go to war. Before you tell me how in Democratic that possible is, let me assure you my grandfather was a coal miner who participated in the Colorado Coal Wars. This is MY history.
If you think we negotiated better wages, insurance, and a 40 hour week you are woefully uniformed.
We TOOK it and we took it with violence.
So many Democrats forget that.
TheBlackAdder
(28,073 posts)Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)This was a catharsis. The guy WANTED to hurt him.
TheBlackAdder
(28,073 posts)Girard442
(6,059 posts)I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Canoe52
(2,944 posts)FSogol
(45,357 posts)vote for whatever disaster Ryan and company are able to inflict on America.
"I want everyone to be in as much pain as me," Rand will assert.
ProfessorGAC
(64,420 posts)The modest swelling of the muscle tissue as the plane routinely reregulates the internal air pressure would hurt so bad, he'd pass out.
oasis
(49,151 posts)Not.
Vinca
(50,170 posts)Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Was Rand having an affair with this gentleman's wife/sister/daughter?
No one really believes this is a "gardening" dispute.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)struggle4progress
(118,039 posts)without getting into a melee and can't resolve their domestic problems without gunning down fifty people who were completely uninvolved