New Mexico Senator has brain disease, frontal lobes deteriorate!

no really, he has something that causes deterioration of the frontal lobes, I forgot the name but its all over New Mexico media.
Mood swings, personality changes et al.
It explains allot.

I'll try to find the medical name for this!

I wish him and his family the best.

His senatorial record makes me ill, but I wish him all the best--that sounds horrible.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/04/senate.newmexico/

"...The Associated Press reported that the 75-year-old New Mexico Republican has a "progressive disease that can cause dysfunction in the parts of the brain important for organization, decision-making and control of mood and behavior."

That's pretty much the ICD-10 definition of dementia. Perhaps he's got Alzheimer's?

yup thats it. His brain is doing a self labotomy. I dont like Pete, but he did do much for NM befor doing it to NM and the US by supporting dimson.


I sorry he has this because there was no way he would have won reelection in NM so its kinda wasted on him.

Many are effected, there is no known cure; terminal.

Terry Shiavo revenge.

One wonders how many other GOP pols with ties to the DOJ firings will be needing our good wishes as they tend to ill health and need time more to spend with family.

There may be an outbreak of dysfunctional brain function among all involved in this, setting up their criminal defense.

That was the first thing that came to my mind. I don't believe anything from these con artists & thugs.

republiconism is a grave affliction of the soul

:rofl:

rice?

CNN: "progressive disease that can cause dysfunction in the parts of the brain important for organization, decision-making and control of mood and behavior."

According to a prepared statement obtained by AP, Domenici intends to say, "The progress of this disease is apparently erratic and unpredictable. It may well be that seven years from now, it will be stable.


SYPHILIS - neurosyphilis is an erratic and unpredictable sexually transmitted disease, rarely seen since the advent of modern anti-biotics. It is a progessive disease that can cause severe damage to the frontal lobes, as well as controlling decision-making and behavior. More rarely it attacks spine, with a variety of symptoms.

As you state, it's rare nowadays, due to better early treatment; and I can't imagine that a US Senator would have missed out on the treatment. Much more likely, one of the many forms of age-related dementia (Alzheimers is the commonest but not the only form).

I am sorry that he has this condition. At least it's a good thing that he recognized it and chose to retire, as I am sure that a number of people have gone on when really mentally unfit.

where the syphilis existed at an early age, and caused a minor neural problem, until antibiotics cured the disease. However, one the neuro problems began, simply getting rid of the syphilis could not prevent the continuing, and accellerating brain problems. The older the person got, even syphilis free, the worse his mental condition became.

Maybe I'm a mean human, but I do not wish him the best. He was a lousy senator and an even worse human being before his brain deteriorated this far and he deserves and gets from me only one grant.
That grant is that the country and the world will be a better place with his passing from the scene, whatever form that takes.

He is/was a bad man. His artificial respect that his relentless pursuit of personal aggrandizement brought him is that of a vicious dog. I don't care for vicious dogs, though I respect them, and am not at all displeased when the pound comes and hauls them off.
I'd be a lot happier if they put him in a cage, where, IMO, he belongs.

payback can be a real mo-fo

And he spoke out prior to his passing, I have more respect for Lee than Pete! Lee asked for forgiveness and was aware of his misdeeds.

8643

If this Senator can get this, then so can Al Gore or you or me or anyone else. That's why I can never be happy about a R. who gets sick.

It's like Regan testifying before congress on Iran-Contra: "I can't recall" & coming down with alzheimers.

...to human events. Newton's third law of motion pertains to physical objects. It does not demonstrate that lying causes Alzheimer's.

implies "life eternal?"

...upon death. The energy is not destroyed.

I don't think that people get ill because of some sort of punishment for bad deeds - if that were the case, why do so many bad people seem to live long lives? The whole concept sounds a little too much like right-wing ideas, e.g. that AIDS is God's punishment for 'sin'.

In the case of Reagan, I think he is definitely one of the people who stayed in office when unfit; and that a lot of his more puzzling actions in office were the result of early Alzheimers, rather than the cause. With Atwater, I have always wondered if the brain tumour was already developing, and affecting his personality, when he did all those nasty things. But perhaps I just prefer where possible to think that someone was evil due to a brain disease, than that they were just evil!

destroy our way of life. I am sorry I WISH hitler had died in 1936. If someone dies in the act of trying to kill me then thats just good fortune. Humanity works when both sides have the same value of life but they simply dont, I will not apologize.

8643

...that a disease as horrible and as random as dementia is still ruining lives.

It is my opinion that the channeling of funds away from research to fund killing is in itself an act of murder. And I feel the pukes have an awful lot of death at their door step.

Think of going through this with no Ins. As many of us face today.

I respect your point and it is a good one, sorry if I sounded flip.

Best to you my friend Deep13! :hi: 8643

Our huge commitment to what is euphemistically called defense is preventing progress in many areas including medicine.

but no wants to evolve, its like we are stuck.

8643

Sounds like you and they actually DO place the same, low value on the lives of others.

Althought I admit it is prime for jokes, the Senator does indeed have real disease. I wish the Senator and his family well.

From the CNN link:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/04/senate.newmexico/

/snip

Though the sources did not disclose a reason for Domenici's retirement, The Associated Press reported that the 75-year-old New Mexico Republican has a "progressive disease that can cause dysfunction in the parts of the brain important for organization, decision-making and control of mood and behavior."

According to a prepared statement obtained by AP, Domenici intends to say, "The progress of this disease is apparently erratic and unpredictable. It may well be that seven years from now, it will be stable.

"On the other hand, it may also be that the disease will have incapacitated me," Domenici plans to say, according to the AP.

that way the media isn't standing by with info on every possible degenerative brain disease known to medicine--which one's it gonna be??? Just out with it.

Its called privacy, he really doesn't have to disclose it. I suspect it would be dementia, but that is just speculation.

on any local news web sites. Like it was scrubbed.

Just posted it as a new thread so people will see it: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1974171

don't you think his constituents want to know if he forgets how to tie his shoelaces? His whole job is being a member of a deliberative body--that's why he's elected. A disease that directly impacts that job should be disclosed.

would impaired brain function really be a concern to republican voters? I mean, look at their damned pResident*, never seemed to bother them before. :shrug:

He's not responsible for his actions.

from Ronald Reagan where he pointed out that he was suffering from Alzheimer's?

This may explain a lot about that creep.

if you're not one already

I taught two of his grandchildren; both absolutely wonderful kids. As much as I despise him as a senator, I am sorry to hear this, as those kids' grampa...I wish him the best as far as his health, but am glad to FINALLY get him out of the senate. Bad news though, is that Heather Wilson(she of the nationally televised meltdown over Janet Jackson's boob) is in an excellent position to take over that seat (that's what she was brought here for and groomed for) unless the Democrats put up a really strong candidate. We have a schizophrenic electorate here; both Domenici and Jeff Bingaman, a decent and at least mildly progressive Dem, both regularly win re-election with overwhelming majorities .

They were OK for rich girls, not half as stuck up as most of them.

I have mixed feelings on this, same mix as when Reagan was dying: sympathy for the family's sorrow with "Fuck that guy!"

Except now, the latter is much less intense.

May God watch over him and his family.